6 Episodes

  1. Getaway

    Published: 15/07/2025
  2. The Witness

    Published: 8/07/2025
  3. Control

    Published: 1/07/2025
  4. A Neon Sign For Crime

    Published: 24/06/2025
  5. Cat and Mouse

    Published: 17/06/2025
  6. Introducing "Devil in the Desert"

    Published: 2/06/2025

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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 recorded informant calls and footage of a prison break, “Devil in the Desert" unravels a crime so brutal that it still haunts investigators today.

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