Devil in the Desert

by ABC News

Category

True Crime

Frequency

Weekly Series

Language

English

In 2012, a woman was found with her hands bound in the Mojave Desert. She led authorities to a grisly crime scene where a barbaric attack had taken place. This moment marked the beginning of an international manhunt and a sting operation that turned a once-devoted wife into an informant. Authorities zeroed in on the so-called mastermind behind the attack: Hossein Nayeri, a charming man who had ties to the emerging medical marijuana industry in California. Told with police tapes, secretly recorde...

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Recent Reviews

Confused

Marie Macabre•9/7/2026

Two or three years ago I used to listen to this podcast and it was complimentary meaning it came with the music service you already paid for. And it was amazing. It now seems like they are charging money and the stories are dry. Too bad.

Good stories but…

Durst98•5/26/2026

Please get a new narrator who doesn’t dramatically pause every sentence, and has a bit more normal inflection. Nice voice, just needs to be more natural, not put on.

Crazy

Eddieonfleek121•1/30/2026

Amazing series!! How crazy because I live in Santa Ana, and I remember exactly when they escaped!

SO EMOTIONLESS

FoxBloxMinecraft•12/20/2025

The story’s are fine but the person who reads them sounds so monotone and emotionless

Shocking!

Kara Menderes•10/5/2025

Wooow!!