Washington podcaster killed by Texas stalker undergoes major back surgery, limited mobility ahead of ambush

REDMOND, Washington. – A Washington woman who died with her husband when a Texas stalker broke into their home and opened fire told a judge days earlier that she had just had spinal surgery and struggled with limited mobility as her stalker ignored requests leave her alone.

“I had major back surgery and my mobility was impaired and I need 24/7 care,” Zohre Sadeghi, 33, wrote in an application for a protection order. “It makes me wary of my ability to respond to a crisis.”

According to court documents, Ramin Khodakaramrezai, a 38-year-old trucker who previously lived in Houston, listened to Sadeghi’s broadcasts and initially became friends with him. But soon he began to call her repeatedly, send flowers and other gifts, and show up at her house uninvited.

“Mr. Khodakaramrezai’s voice messages have been causing me anxiety and insomnia,” Sadeghi wrote to the court. “He cries and begs to take me away, he threatens to burn himself and the tree in front of my house, and also tells me to either delete my Instagram or make it public so he can see the content I post.”

She said that Hodakaramrezai was “totally delusional” and had problems with explosive anger.

“These misconceptions make me fear for my life and the lives of my loved ones,” she wrote.

CONNECTED: A Texas stalker killed the podcaster and her husband at their Washington home, police say.

She blocked his number, but he continued to leave her voice messages. Khodakaramrezai also started calling Sadeghi’s friends and neighbors and even tried to hack into one of their WhatsApp accounts.

At one point, the accused stalker called Sadeghi’s husband, Mohammad Milad Naseri, while the couple were in bed and demanded that he connect the phone to his wife.

“The fact that you had the audacity to call me and ask for my wife’s number so you could tell her you love her is just incredible,” Naseri told the stalker in January. “The fact that you expect me to actually do this makes me distrustful. I don’t know in what culture and in what part of the world this would be considered normal.”

In the days prior to the assassination, Khodakaramrezai left “vulgar, angry and threatening” voice messages to Sadeghi between 1 and 2 am. During this time, he told Naseri that the connection would only end if he killed himself or died, according to court documents.

Hodakaramrezai was charged with stalking and stalking just a week before police said he broke into a couple’s $1.3 million home in Redmond, 15 miles east of Seattle, and killed them and then himself on Friday morning, court records show.

Sadeghi’s mother, who was also at home at the time of the attack, fled and called 911 from a nearby house at around 1:45 am, authorities said.

Arriving officers found Sadeghi’s 35-year-old husband, Naseri, lying unconscious on the floor. They tried to give him artificial respiration, but were unable to revive him.

In the depths of the house they found Sadeghi and Khodakaramrezai dead.

Court records show that Sadeghi and Nasseri’s lawyer told the judge last week that he was not sure if Hodakaramrezai had a gun, but thought he might.

The court issued a temporary protection order and an order to surrender weapons to Khodakaramrezai.

Redmond Police say detectives were already familiar with the victim due to an ongoing stalking investigation.

Texas court records show that Hodakaramrezai left a 7-year-old daughter who lives with his ex-wife.

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