A tech industry podcaster and her software engineer husband killed by a suspected stalker who listened to her show, police say

• A podcaster and her husband were gunned down by someone who broke into their Washington home.
• Police said that the suspect, who also shot himself at the scene, had been stalking the victim for months.

A podcaster and her husband were murdered by someone who police described as a stalker that broke into their home.

Police said that trucker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, had stalked his victim for "many months," after he heard her on a podcast that she was "affiliated with" about "gaining employment in the tech industry," The Daily Beast reported.

Authorities said that the suspect entered the Washington house of Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and her husband, Mohammed Milad Naseri, 35, who joined Amazon in January 2022 as a software engineer, according to his LinkedIn page. hodakaramrezaei broke in and shot them through an open window at 1:45 a.m before fatally shooting himself, police said.

Sadeghi's mother, who was in the home at the time, was able to flee to a neighbor's house from where she called the police.

When police reached the house in Redmond, Seattle, they performed CPR on Naseri before he succumbed to his injuries. Sadeghi and Khodakaramrezaei were both pronounced dead at the scene, police said in a statement.

Police said that Khodakaramrezaei began communicating with Sadeghi after listening to her on a podcast, and the two became friends. It is not clear what the name of the podcast was.

Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe said that Khodakaramrezaei first came into contact with Sadeghi after tuning into a podcast that she was "affiliated with" on the subject of "gaining employment in the tech industry."

However, things escalated and she later filed a no-contact order against him.

Chief Lowe told The Daily Beast that he first became aware of "harassing behavior" by the suspect in December, and was told that Khodakaramrezaei once called the victim over 100 times in one day.

This later developed into in-person stalking, authorities said, with the suspect visiting the victim's home as well as following her to a conference in Denver, Colorado.

A judge issued a temporary protection order in March, which would have forbidden Khodakaramrezaei from contacting Sadeghi, but it had not yet been served at the time of the murder, Lowe told The Daily Beast. His work as a trucker made him difficult to locate, said polcie.

"I think the key piece here is that a protection order is simply a piece of paper that does not prevent a person from causing harm to another person," Lowe said, suggesting that it would not have protected her from the attack.

Lowe noted that the victim did not know that the suspect was planning to come to her home, and if she had known then police would have been there to issue the order.