Them if they scream. This ishe to shoot us. They ask again, where is the Million Dollars . For the final time he tells them, there is in no Million Dollars. Heinous crime. Now the plot thickens. Who is Hossein Nayeri . Take a seat. This is the only interview of Hossein Nayeri. I can feel him trying to manipulate me. Theres a lot of stuff you guys dont have a clue about. This is the only criminal whos filmed his escape from jail. Hes going kill me. Theres no doubt in my mind. Like, im dead. This is the middle of the Mojave Desert at sunrise. Its cold and dark and theres literally no one around for miles. A human body lies in the midst of this nothingness. His hands are bounded behind his back. His legs are bound together. Hes not moving. Hes bloody. The question is, what happened here . What happened indeed. Now, aye spent years covering what has to be one of the most incredible stories ive ever heard about. And it all began in Newport Beach, california. Newport beach is a beach community. If you have more money than you know what to do with, a lot of people move to Newport Beach. I mean, Beverly Hills is fine, but you cant have your yacht in Beverly Hills. Just beautiful, sparkling ocean, sail boats, beautiful people. Not at all the kind of place where you would expect something terrible to happen. Mary barnes had just come to california from florida. Mary has just moved into this house with her boyfriend and his roommate, this guy michael. Weve agreed to only use michaels first name and not to show his face. Michael had been renting a room in the house for about eight months. And mary had just moved in with her boyfriend two days before. So michael suddenly was her brand new roommate too. It was a fourbedroom house. A block from the beach. It was just a nice house. When you first met him, your roommate, do you recall what your impression was of him . Yeah. Um he was a very friendly guy. Kind of like a teddy ear. You kind of want to hug him. She has no idea who he is or even what business hes in. She essentially knows nothing about this guy 28yearold michael was a young businessman. He took advantage of the new laws in california that allowed the sale of medical marijuana. Hes in the marijuana business, but hes not a shady drug dealer. He is a legitimate businessman. Yes, a legitimate business man, but with one odd twist. Now, medical marijuana was legal in the state of california, but illegal federally. That meant that people like michael couldnt do business with banks. That means no credit cards, no checks. This was a cash only for unscrupulous people, youre looking to get cash . You kn its a typical monday night, early fall here in Southern California. Were talking 70 degrees, clear sky. Theres two people inside the house there is michael and theres mary. That particular night, her boyfriend was out of town on business. Both of them were sleeping on the second floor. Mary was sleeping in a master bedroom, and michael was sleeping on a couch in a recreation room. They could not even imagine the night that they were about to have. Right around 2 30 in the morning, all chaos breaks. Suddenly masked men are in this house. Mary wakes up with a cold piece of metal on the back of her neck, and she immediately realizes its the barrel of a gun. A man leaned down next to my ear and whispered, dont worry, this is not about you. He slapped a piece of tape on my mouth. Then he ziptied my hands. He ziptied my ankles together. She was blindfolded and is immediately taken out of bed. As he is carrying her downstairs, she can hear the cries from michael. Michael is fighting for his life at that point. They asked him once, wheres the money . And he said, i have 2,000 in the sock in the drawer in my room. Not that. The Million Dollars. A Million Dollars. Wheres the Million Dollars . Within a few minutes, i heard them dragging him down the steps. Each time he hits a step, bang, bang, bang. He has no clue who this is or why its happening. He just knows everything is a nightmare. Its not until they hear a vehicle pull up that they realize that this is much, much worse than they thought. Theyre not stealing from him. Theyre actually going to kidnap him. The suspects loaded michael and mary into their vehicle. Two of the men are in the back with mary and michael, while a third is driving. We can only imagine the terror. We were definitely on a highway. I kept bouncing. I was on my side. Michael is taking as brutal a beating as you can possibly imagine. Do you hear whats going on next to you . Yes. It was horrible. They beat him repeatedly all over his body with a rubber hose. Hes also getting shocked with a stun gun. Hes getting burned by a blow torch and theyre continuously asking for one thing the Million Dollars. Its really heinous. This man has no mercy. He kept saying, i dont have a Million Dollars. Did he offer them Something Else . He did. He said, i have 100,000 in a safety deposit box. I can get it for you tomorrow. What did they say . Not good enough. She hears him grunting in pain, and this goes on for hours. And youre saying that the whole time your roommate was being tortured . The entire time. Are you thinking, is this ever gonna end . Yeah. At one point, even in blindfolds, they can tell that they slow down. It appears they have gotten off the highway, because they can hear the crunch of gravel. I was just filled with terror. A gut feeling of, these could be my last moments on earth. Its like something out of a gangster movie, like where you take somebody when you want to get rid of them. I was praying. I was praying a lot. I didnt want to die. Take 25 off adidas . And save on nike. And vans. Save on adidas womens jackets. Mens nike graphic tees are just 19. 99. 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They believe he has buried 1 million somewhere out here, and theyre going to big it up and theyre going to be millionai millionaires. They ask him one more time, wheres the Million Dollars . Where is the Million Dollars . And he tells them for the final time he tells them, there is no Million Dollars. And then the question is well, now what . And this is where it gets really horrible. They decide to take things to a pretty terrible place. If were not going to get our money, were going to take something. Your [ bleep ] thats what he said. His his [ bleep ] i thought, am i hearing things . And they take a serrated knife. I couldnt believe what was happening. It was like a bad dream. He was cutting off my roommates penis. And singing. And singing, like and back and forth and back and forth the guy was a total sadist. Hes a psychopath, and i could do nothing about it. And there was no sound from my roommate. Torture. Torture, plain and simple. And she hears the sound glug glug glug of this liquid coming out of some sort of a container. I was afraid they were splashing him with lighter fluid and they were gonna set us on fire. It turns out that it was bleach, poured all over the victim. Bleach destroys dna, so if youre planning a crime like this, you will use bleach to cover your tracks. So after the mutilation, one of them bends over to mary, still hogtied and blindfolded. And they touch her with a knife, and they tell her, if you find the knife, you could set yourself free. The guy throws the knife. He said, todays your lucky day. Right . Like, thank you so much. You kidnapped me. You terrified me. I think you killed my friend, and somehow im lucky now . Now, with the kidnappers gone and the light of dawn just starting to appear, mary uses her knees to push up her blindfo blindfold. And still found, she somehow finds that knife in the dirt, cuts her feet free, and rushes over to michael. And as soon as i pulled the gag off, he just took a deep breath and he said, oh, that feels so much better. And i thought, oh, thank god, hes alive. And she tells michael, you know what . I hear cars. Im going to walk until i find a car and im going to get us help. And this woman walks out barefoot through the california desert because she sees lights off in the distance that might be a road. So, were talking about real heroism here. And it hurt a lot. I walked as fast as i could. I couldnt run. I got to the highway. Im screaming, somebody please help. Somebody stop. Somebody please help. Fortunately, a Police Officer happened to be going the other way and saw me. And suddenly what are the chances . What are the chances . That morning i was on my way to work when i saw a woman walking along the right shoulder of the road. He can tell that something must be wrong here. As i got closer to her, i could see that her hands were behind her back and there was what looked like some white plastic sticking out from both sides behind her back. He realizes immediately, this is something major and something completely out of the ordinary. As soon as i realized it was zip ties and a blindfold, i realize that im going to have to start taking pictures of mary before i can cut the restraints off of her. Hes such a pro, he realizes that thats valuable evidence. How long have you been here . I guess it was just before sunrise. And i said, officer, my friend and i were kidnapped in Newport Beach. They threw us in a van. A van . It happened so fast. She tells him, i have a maim. Whats his name . Mike. Whos laying in the desert just up the hill. We need to save him. We didnt know where he was. She told me that he was in the mountains. And i think to myself, holy crap, i hope she can narrow it down because theres a lot of mountains around here. Mary gets into the car with sergeant williams. Mary directed us south on highway 14 to a dirt road that lead west. Were going off road to look for a second victim. This is it. Its pretty desolate and uninhabited. Mary took us to this gate right here. And we got to the gully. Were coming right now before they even see the victim, they are overpowered by this stench in the air. It was heavy. It was it actually made me choke. He had been doused in bleach from head to toe. Are you a medic . Im an emt. He has stab wounds. Right about here is where michael was laying on his side. Its an overwhelming sight, even for a seasoned deputy. He starts photographing. So we get to see what his injuries look like. He can see the brutality of what happened to this poor man. Ow, ow you could tell he was hurt really bad. He was a mess. Now Deputy Williams and his team have a job to do, and thats to try to find michaels severed body part. 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I had got in that morning, had a cup of coffee in my hand. And my cellphone rang. And first words he said was, dude, weve got a crazy one. And it was on. Okay, so i guess any questions you guys have, just fire away. Matt murphy was the Senior DeputyDistrict Attorney in the Orange CountyDistrict Attorneys office. Hes a fighter. And hes a winner. And hes very good at his job. At the point that i got the phone call on this case, id done over 100 jury trials. Hadnt lost one since 1996. Ive never had a case that has had more wild twists and turns than this one. The location inside the orange arrows was bleach. This was a pretty big case, and i think for the prosecutors in Orange County there was a lot of pressure to solve it. Two victims were taken from this home. Police say on october 2, a kidnapper broke in. He blindfolded the victims, a man and a woman, and forced them into a vehicle. Usually when you have a crime of this magnitude, theres at least somewhere to start. Theres at least a suspect or suspects. The victims did not have much to say to the Newport Beach p. D. They didnt know who would do this and why. I think we slept six hours in four days. We were so busy. Because we didnt have any answers. We didnt have any direction. It was heinous crime, no clues. So, Law Enforcement begins canvassing the neighborhood in Newport Beach. Canvasses are notoriously unfruitful. Its a cold search for witnesses. The question is, did you see or hear anything unusual . It turns out the day prior to the kidnapping a witness had seen something suspicious a white pickup truck had parked behind michaels house. And this is where the neighbor comes into play. And really this is the big break. So, a woman was looking out her window and saw three guys that looked like they were workmen because they were in construction gear. But she noticed that they looked very suspicious. So the officers, like, hoping against hope that maybe she can describe the vehicle. And her answer is something to the effect of, well, would the license plate work . She takes down the license plate number. This turns out to be eureka. The truck is registered to a man by the name of kyle handley. So, of course, they go right back to michael and say, do you know kyle . And michaels like, yeah, i know who kyle is, but how would he be tied to this . This is a young man who lives in the area, who happens to be in the marijuana business. Michael says kyle enters his dispensary and starts selling him weed. And michael