The Ultimate Betrayal

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I go inside and I see the rice burning on the stove. I went through the house. She wasn't home. I called her phone. It was off.

My mind goes to the worst place possible.

They said, we found your mom's car burnt. And I said, what?

That's a heavy, heavy phone call.

Very, very heavy.

You are discovering this tense relationship.

Correct, yes, based on text messages.

Text messages like, leave me the F alone.

Yes.

She called to tell me that I feel like someone is following me. Our minds are churning.

These Google coordinates led you pretty far out of town.

They actually led us to a remote area.

This was a game changer, what you discovered here.

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They're wearing masks. They grabbed her and they wrestled her.

At that moment, all the world came crashing down.

A buried secret. A savage attack. And a sinister saga stretching halfway across the world. I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline.

From beginning to end of it.

Before the ending, with all its horror and heartbreak, there was a simple dilemma. A son trying to get out of dinner with his mom.

I got a text message from her that said, you know, I'm going to be cooking kebabs tonight. What time are you coming home? I said, I'm still at work. Not sure.

Hamed Ghassemi and his mother, Tahira, lived together in a comfortable house in one of Baton Rouge's better neighborhoods, a long way from their native Iran. Tahira was a doting mom who often cooked for her adult son. She expected him to be home. A lot. But for a 38-year-old man, all that attention could be smothering.

It was to the point that I was feeling like my mom wanted me to just work and come and stay at the house and do nothing else.

So, on the night of April 11, 2015,, Hamed decided to blow off dinner. Instead, he met friends for drinks at a daiquiri bar, then later went out for sushi. What time did you come home?

I didn't come home till later on.

And when he pulled into the driveway.

Something didn't seem right because her car wasn't there.

Hamed says he went inside and found a pot of rice cooking on the stove, but no sign of his mother. Most people do not leave hot pots on a burning stove.

Under. the thing was very, very low. So I kind of thought about it and I said, OK, maybe she left without turning the pot off.

He turned off the stove and looked around. What about her phone, her wallet, her purse?

I didn't look for any of those at the time. I called her phone. It was off.

So it's missing. So it's missing. He says it wouldn't have been the first time his mother spent the night at a girlfriend's house. He figured maybe that's where she went. So you're not in a huge panic at this point that your mom's not there?

Not till that afternoon, and then it didn't, no answer. So I called her work, and they said,

Okay, so you're thinking she's fine.

And the manager comes in, and I say, Hey, you know, I called yesterday, and you all told me my mom was at work, and I haven't heard from her. And they went through the record, and they said no.

So she really hadn't been there.

So she hadn't been to work that day.

So it was a mistake. That gives me chills that this whole time, you're thinking she's fine, and you got some bad information.

Yes. Right away, I contacted the police, and the police came to my house.

Captain Todd Morris of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Department would become the lead investigator. He focused on the fact that Tahira's car was missing, a 2004 blue Jaguar. Are you thinking that maybe someone stole her car?

Well, it could have been. She could have been a victim of an armed robbery or carjacking.

But after a quick look around, he decided that didn't make sense.

Why would she leave her purse? Why would she leave her identification, okay, if she was driving her vehicle with personal items that you would normally take with you when you leave to go visit a friend or go to the store?

Ahmed told the investigator he hadn't seen his mom since Saturday morning. And now it was Monday. Did you feel like two days was a lot to wait to call the police?

Well, it's kind of unusual if you're, have a close relationship with your mother.

Are alarm bells going off for you as an investigator, with everything you're seeing and hearing?

Yeah, things were not adding up in our mind of what happened here, what could have happened to Miss Kissimmee.

Morris entered the missing woman's car into the police database, and within a few hours, police had their first real break in the case. The night before, Tahara's blue Jaguar was discovered, abandoned in an industrial part of town. And that wasn't all.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, we have her vehicle that was burned up.

The car had been torched, but was she in it?

We have her vehicle that was burned up, you know, six or seven miles from her residence, at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Was her body in the vehicle?

No, it was not. Something has gone wrong with this.

Something bad had happened, but still, no sign of Tahara. To find her, they needed to know a lot more about her. Hamed describes his mother as both traditional and adventurous.

She loved mountain climbing. when she was back home. She was actually the head of mountain climbing of the city of Bam, for the women's division.

Good mountains in Iran?

Beautiful mountains in Iran. And she climbed just about all of them.

Tahara had married young. She was already pregnant when her husband left Iran to study in the U.S. She named their baby Hamed, in honor of his father, Hamid.

My whole childhood was always me wondering, where is my dad, where is my dad?

Was it the family's belief that your dad would eventually bring both of you over to America?

The whole time, yes.

But that was complicated and time-consuming. Hamed was 18 years old by the time his father secured a visa and moved him to Baton Rouge. Another 10 years went by before Hamed became a U.S. citizen and was able to bring his mother here. She climbed the biggest mountain by coming to America.

Definitely. She was very persistent to do something.

Good friend and fellow Iranian immigrant, Aisha Ismail, said Tahara was determined to grab a small piece of the American dream. She quickly mastered English and found a job at Walmart.

Anything. she put her mind to it, she was very smart.

She really worked her way up at Walmart.

She did, yes. She really was a hard worker.

The marriage that had been long-distance for two decades didn't survive the transition. Tahara and her husband broke up. But she soldiered on, got a promotion, became a manager at Walmart, and hoped to one day start her own business.

She loved cooking, but she was best at baking. And she said, this is my dream that one day I would open my own bakery.

Tahara often brought her pastries to Aisha's gatherings.

Every time I had a party, she was there. She would spend the night, and then we would, me and her, we would sleep in the living room.

You two were like girls, like sleepover. Exactly. Did you see Tahara as kind of a sister?

Yes, I would say so.

Now, Tahara was missing, and police were talking to the person closest to her, her son. You also are discovering this tense relationship between mother and son.

Correct, yes.

The single mother had apparently grown dependent, even possessive, of her only child.

I could say they didn't get along as much, you know, because they were two different generations. When Ahmed had a date, she had a problem with it. She told me many times, like, I don't like it. I said, well, he's grown up. He can make his choices.

The tension was evident when police looked at Ahmed's phone. Just the day before Tahara disappeared, he'd sent her a text in Farsi, cursing her out. We're talking about text messages like, leave me the F alone, I'm moving out. Yes. I mean, they were really butting heads.

Yeah, there was definitely tension between he and his mother, and so we were trying to figure out what is the issue here between him and his mom.

Captain Morris still wondered why Ahmed had not called the police sooner.

You think she may be at a friend's, and then you start checking up and calling friends, and then you still wait.

What did Ahmed tell you, as far as what he did that night after he came home and realized his mom was missing?

Well, he said that he returned home from work, that he didn't go anywhere, he stayed at the residence.

But you come to learn, that's not true.

Yeah, as we went back over his timeline and started questioning him more.

And when they did, a crack in his story emerged. Turns out, when Ahmed talked to investigators, he'd left something out. He didn't tell them that once he realized his mother wasn't at home, his night of partying continued. So he went back out?

He went back out, yes, he did.

Captain Morris wasn't sure what to make of that, or if it had anything to do with the missing woman. Still.

That's always very concerning to us when we catch him in mistruths.

Detectives now considered Ahmed to be a person of interest.

We wanted to kind of really lock him in on his timeline and verify everything that he had originally told us, once we had the cooperating documents and support from the cell phone records, the interview, the friends, and just make sure there's nothing else that was missing.

And there was something else, something big, that investigators learned Ahmed had not told them right away. Just recently, after years of living separate lives, Ahmed's mother and father had finally divorced, and Tahira had come into money. A lot of it.

We were thinking, okay, who has the most to gain now from the recent settlement, from the divorce and the money, and of course the first person would be in line, for that would be Ahmed, the son.

And detectives were about to uncover an important piece of video that would have them asking what the son could tell them about this.

We could see the silhouette of a driver in that vehicle.

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Either way, police now considered Ahmed a person of interest, and he knew it. Was it tense?

And I went to the hospital and received probably 14 or 15 stitches in the back of my head.

In fact, he said the reason his mom planned to buy him a new comforter was that his wounds had bled on the old one. Detectives had to consider the possibility that someone was targeting the family. Tahira's friend Aisha remembered something eerie she'd recently told her.

She said, I feel like somebody's following me. I thought it was, she was imagining.

You felt like she was being dramatic?

Yes, that's what I thought.

Now, she believed her friend was right, and investigators discovered something that supported that theory.

We were checking some businesses on the backside of her residence. They have several offices, office complexes there, and so we began looking at video systems there.

Security camera footage captured this Chevy Tahoe in a parking lot on the other side of the fence from Tahira's backyard. The time stamp was from the night she disappeared.

It pulled into the area there and turned off its lights, and so we said, okay, who is this?

Can you see faces in the vehicle? Can you get a license plate?

We cannot get a license plate. We could see the silhouette of a driver in that vehicle.

When detectives asked Hamed about the Chevy Tahoe, he said he'd never seen it before. Police took a screenshot and posted it on the local Crimestoppers site. Almost right away, they seemed to strike gold.

They're looking for this Z71 package Tahoe,

and that's our Tahoe that we traded. I know that's the car.

Baton Rouge. car dealers Tommy Brignac and Zeke Avsi immediately recognized the Tahoe. It was a 2002 model with unique features.

The Z71 has fender flares, running boards, different wheels, so that's what made it distinctive.

It stuck out like a unicorn.

What are you thinking?

Our minds are churning. We actually went to the sheriff's office together to report, look, this may be our vehicle that we actually have in our inventory.

But here was the detail that caught the attention of investigators. They knew that Tahoe's ex-husband owned a luxury car dealership in town called Import One, and that's the dealership where Tommy and Zeke worked.

Now we have a vehicle identified as coming from Import One, owned by Hamed Ghassemi, and so we thought, okay, we need to get some more information here.

Lots of people in the sheriff's office already knew about Hamed Ghassemi. He was popular and admired in Baton Rouge, the embodiment of the immigrant success story. I find it pretty remarkable that you can move here from Iran with no money and then ending up opening a car dealership.

Yes, yes. Hard work.

When Hamed arrived in Baton Rouge in the 80s, he had little money but a lot of ambition.

He opened up a little small pizza shop.

Rainbow Pizza. People really liked it.

They really did.

Soon, the industrious entrepreneur began offering customers more than what was on the menu.

He took that money from the pizza store, started buying cars.

And selling them right outside of the store. It wasn't long before he left the pizza business altogether and opened a dealership. What kind of cars are we talking about?

Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi. If you sell good cars in a very small town like Baton Rouge, everybody talked.

We had like 15 employees, and we went from selling 30 to about 65, 75 cars a month.

He was very personable with all his clients. They would oftentimes let me take cars home, and I'd keep them for a day just to figure out what I really wanted.

Louisiana State Representative, Denise Marcel not only bought several cars from Hamed, they became friends. Hamed knew she was an enthusiastic churchgoer. Hamed used to send you scripture every day? Yes. I thought it was very nice.

And it would help me during the day a lot of times.

Detectives headed over to Import One to see if they could find that Tahoe from the security video. Hamed told his staff to help them look through the inventory, but the vehicle was gone. The Tahoe that employees Tommy and Zeke remembered had recently been sold at auction. Tahoe's ex told Captain Morris he was praying for her safe return and added the investigator to his prayer circle.

He started sending me his morning prayers after our initial contact.

It would not be their last contact. A mysterious phone call was about to bring the detective closer to finding Tahoe.

That phone call stuck out because that number was not on any of the family members' phones.

It's inevitable that detectives looking for a missing woman would get around to looking at her ex-husband. And after investigators learned about a possible connection between that suspicious SUV behind Tahoe's house and her ex's car lot, they dug in. It didn't take long to find out that Tahoe and Hamed's relationship had a complicated history. Remember, he'd left her behind in a robbery in Iran years earlier to study in the U.S., with the promise of bringing her over once he was settled?

The only reason that I stayed in the United States was to be able to bring her to America, because I knew that was her only dream at that point.

By then, it was 2005, and her husband was married to yet another woman. Aisha says it was a shock when Tahoe found out he never really wanted her here.

When she came, she found out that he was married.

Oh, that must have been so hard for her.

It was. She was so heartbroken.

That wasn't the auto dealer's only strange relationship. His son worked for him at the dealership when he was younger, and the two fought bitterly. He had no problem whacking him across his face in front of everybody.

I remember talking to my mom on the phone, and the phone bill being expensive one month, and he took it out of my paycheck.

By the time his parents were divorcing, Hamed says he was firmly in his mother's camp.

I just wanted my mom to get what she was deserving and nothing else. My mom asked him from day one for $1,500 a month, alimony, a car, and a place to stay. That wasn't a lot to ask for.

Attorney, Tommy Gibbs represented Tahoe in the divorce.

He just didn't want to give her a nickel.

The divorce dragged on for close to eight years. Hamed objected to the proceedings on novel grounds. He claimed they shouldn't be considered married at all.

His initial defense was they could not be legally married because they were first cousins, and under Louisiana law, first cousins cannot marry.

In Iran, there's no such law, and it's not unusual for relatives to marry each other.

That particular issue had to go all the way up to the Louisiana Supreme Court before it was finally decided.

They recognized that a marriage that took place legally.

in another country or state, or whatever it might be, is recognized under Louisiana law.

So, in early 2015,, three months before Tahoe went missing, Hamed was ordered to give her more than a million dollars, as well as two properties. He told detectives looking into his ex-wife's disappearance that he'd had nothing to do with her since. But Captain Todd Morris wasn't so sure. You subpoena Hamed's cell records?

Yes, ma'am. Yeah, we subpoenaed his cell phone. We kind of wanted to see who he was communicating with.

One call jumped out. It came into Hamed's phone just after midnight on the night. Tahereh disappeared and lasted only 17 seconds. When detectives traced it, they learned it was from a man named Tyler Ashbaugh.

That phone call stuck out because that number was not on any of the family members' phones.

You needed to find out who this Tyler was.

We needed to see what Tyler's connection was to Hamed.

Tyler was 20 years old and raised in Wisconsin, but after being kicked out of school, he'd come to Baton Rouge to live with relatives. Captain Morris couldn't find any connection between the two men. Still, something was bothering him. He wanted to know more.

We wanted, you know, a more detailed look of where his phone may have been located at.

on the night of the disappearance.

Is it a fluke call? Is it a missed call? Because it's only one time, and so we needed to look at that more, because that was very interesting.

Investigators probed Tyler's electronic footprint, his calls, and Internet searches. It would be his Google Maps history on the night of Tahereh's disappearance that caught their attention. These Google coordinates led you pretty far out of town.

Yes, ma'am, they did. This is Highway Louisiana 16 that comes out of Livingston Parish into St. Helena Parish.

It was a popular area for deer hunters. As investigators explored the trails, they noticed something scattered on the ground.

There was some small pieces of, like, cotton, polyester stuffing.

Because we know, often bodies are wrapped in blankets, carpets, comforters. Correct. Captain Morris remembered that comforter missing from Hamed's bed.

They thought that, hey, this could be the insides of the material of the comforter. And so they followed it, and they come to an area.

The trail of cotton led to a patch of ground that looked recently disturbed.

And it was rectangular in shape, and it had sunken some like it had been, you know, fairly freshly dug. Then they said, man, is this a grave?

Morris stuck his fingers in the dirt and started digging.

I just put the shovel down and really just started removing the soil with my hands.

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We see a comforter, and it's the description of a comforter which is missing from the residence. And then we realized that there is a human body in this that ended up being Miss Gissemi.

The detective's missing persons case was now officially a homicide investigation. How was it determined that she died?

Two gunshot wounds to her head.

Captain Morris needed to talk to Tyler Ashbaugh immediately. It was his phone that led them to Tahira. Morris, tracked him down and brought him into the sheriff's office.

He denies involvement. I don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't there. I don't know, Miss Gissemi.

And I tried to develop a rapport with him.

Then eventually, you know, he admitted to his involvement in the abduction and kidnapping and killing of Miss Gissemi.

He confessed?

He confessed.

He admitted to kidnapping and shooting Tahira, and he had not acted alone.

We knew he's not by himself, and we need to find out. what other suspects are, you know, with him.

So Morris took him back to the beginning, to the morning of the murder. Tyler, said a teenage friend of his, named Skyler Williams, reached out about making some quick cash.

I think, wow, $10,000, you know, that's a lot of money.

The job was a murder for hire. He and his friend went to a nearby Home Depot to pick up supplies.

We recovered video of him and Skyler walking into the Home Depot where they purchased some rope and a box utility cutting knife.

Then, later that day, the two met up with the man who'd recruited Skyler for the job. His name was Daniel Richter. Did you look into his history?

Yes, he had done some time for a rape.

Tyler knew nothing about that. He told investigators he was just thinking about the payday. He said Daniel Richter drove them over to Tahira's house that night. They brought a .22 caliber pistol and a syringe full of insulin. East Baton Rouge.

They muffled her mouth and brang her back into the kitchen area.

Richter joined them inside. Tahira tried to escape, but she was no match for the three men. And they'd injected her with whatever it was that they had to inject her with, and she was unconscious. on the floor. At that point, they wrapped her up in Hamed's comforter and loaded her in the back of her own car, which was a Jaguar.

And that's when Tyler takes the .

Investigators say, the killers then headed to a bowling alley to get paid. The money was coming from a person Daniel Richter referred to as the old man. But he wasn't there, so Daniel borrowed Tyler's phone and made that 17-second call. The old man said he wanted the three to come to him.

And they went to his residence, where he paid them the $10,000.

The old man, no surprise, was Hamed Kasimi. If he and the hired guns had been trying to communicate on the down-low, that one call from Tyler's phone had been a major screw-up. That phone call unraveled a diabolical murder plot.

That phone call, one phone call, unraveled his whole plot to get away with killing his ex-wife.

Tyler said that after they got paid, Hamed had one more request. He also gave them a gas can and told them to go burn the car.

And we had also located some video from that area. You can see the vehicle engulfed in flames.

As for Daniel Richter.

Daniel Richter ended up being one of the mechanics at Import One.

Import One, Hamed Kasimi's dealership. Prosecutors learned that Daniel had been spending a lot of time with Hamed and trying hard to impress him. Here he is, you know, he's got a felony conviction, he's got this job there, but this is his opportunity to be, in his eyes, taken care of by this man who has all these resources and this great business. It was Richter who'd taken the Tahoe from the dealership and parked it in the lot just behind Tahara's house. Now, in a span of just nine hours, Captain Morris had a body and a confession.

Very, very heavy.

So many emotions all at once between your mom and your dad. I mean, that's, how do you process?

I guess that just tells you all that anybody can get in a very dark place in their lives and they can have these type of thoughts.

Why only $10,000?

Well, that's what Hamed negotiated. You know, that's what... Is this? his car salesman coming out? You always get what you pay for in our business.

So case closed? Not exactly. One more person in the family was about to find himself in trouble halfway around the world and in a way he never saw coming.

I was arrested and I was thrown in jail.

Hamed Ghassami was behind bars, accused of killing his ex-wife Tahira. Their son, Hamed, could barely process what was happening. He'd worked so hard to bring his mother to America, only for it to end like this.

I always thought I was going to die. I thought she would grow old and hold my kids, you know, her grandkids.

With that dream now shattered, Hamed focused on honoring his mother's life. Her wish was to be buried in Iran.

Yes, her wish was to be buried in her hometown.

Family friend Denise. Marcel thought it was a bad idea.

And I don't know why I was having like an eerie feeling about it.

Hamed's mother was laid to rest in the family burial ground. But instead of finding closure, what happened next was the start of a whole new nightmare.

So I buried my mom and the next day I was arrested and I was thrown in jail for charges of conspiracy against the Iranian government.

Hamed was accused of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, a capital offense in the Islamic Republic. Were you trying to convert people? No. So where does this arrest come from? My father.

Yes.

Pulled some strings? Yes. He says his father had connections with powerful people in their home country. To him, it was the only explanation that made sense.

I was shoved into a small room that was dark and just nasty.

A lawyer for Hamed Ghassemi told Dateline Hamed had nothing to do with his son's arrest.

I spent close to, I think, 30 to 40 days in solitary.

He managed to reach friends back in the U.

I started calling congressmen and saying, can y'all please help get him out?

What kind of response did you get?

They said that they were going to reach out and do what they could to help. They finally brought me in front of a judge again, and that's when I was allowed to have an attorney and he was able to talk the judges into letting me out on bail.

Hamed didn't wait around for his next court date.

Three days later, I was on a flight on my way out of Iran.

After more than a year in Iran, he returned to Baton Rouge, where prosecutors had been building a case against his father and the alleged hit team. Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings struck a deal with Tyler Ashbaugh. And Tyler's your witness? At that point, they got the ball rolling. Got the ball rolling.

When I looked at him, he put his head down. That was a show of guilt to me.

Prosecutors set out to prove that guilt. They called on Zeke Avsi to connect Tahira's murder to Hamed's dealership. Zeke testified about how the Tahoe used in the crime came from Hamed's lot. And he remembered that shortly before the murder, a big chunk of cash from the sale of a car mysteriously disappeared. I would think a boss would be upset if $13,000 went missing, but he wasn't.

But he wasn't that upset about just, we'll find it or whatever, that type of thing. That was the last I had heard of it.

Prosecutors argued Hamed wasn't upset because he'd taken the money himself and used it to pay the hit team. The prosecution's new key witness, Daniel Richter, also took the stand. He told the jury that hours before the murder, Hamed gave him a gun and that syringe with insulin.

And Hamed had told him, just stick it in her neck, and she's going to have a heart attack and die.

And Richter dropped this bombshell in the courtroom. Tahira wasn't the only target. He said Hamed wanted his son killed too. He thought if he killed Tahira, the money would go to Hamed, and if he killed Hamed, the money would go to him, so he would get his money back. And I believe that's why he wanted to kill both of them.

A lot of tears, a lot of emotions.

Despite the evidence, Hamed's defense attorney, Bob Noel, denied his client had anything to do with the murder plot or the parking lot attack on Hamed. He still maintains that he didn't do it. He told the jury to look at the man who police initially suspected.

Basically, the person who had the most to gain.

by her death was Hamed.

The defense alluded that there was tension between Hamed and his mom, and that Hamed himself might have had a motive to want to kill his mother and get her money. Yeah, can you imagine. after Hamed is unsuccessful in killing Hamed, he decides he's going to blame the murder on him, which is amazing to me. After all, he'd been through, the loss of his mother, imprisonment in Iran, this felt like the ultimate betrayal.

I'd only heard, you know, in stories where parents did such horrible things to their kids. I never could think that my own father would do this to me.

After seven days of testimony, it took jurors just two hours to reach a verdict. Hamed Ghassemi was found guilty of first-degree murder.

Yeah, I just pray for his soul.

He was sentenced to life behind bars. Money, greed, power, control, that's what this case was about.

Yes, that's what this case was about, yes.

In his victim impact statement, Hamed let his father know just how evil he believed him to be.

I said if you could get out of that wheelchair, you would get up and strangle me.

Daniel Richter and Skylar Williams pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 30 years.

I wanted to do something that I was good at. And, you know, why not go in the car business that I'd already known so much about?

The one thing your dad gave you was he taught you about the car business.

But my way of doing business and his way are completely different.

Today he's living the way his mother always wanted. One of your mom's dreams was that you would marry a woman from Iran. Yeah. And you did.

I sure did.

I now pronounce you, husband and wife.

I'm married to a beautiful lady that loves me just as much as I love her.

She makes you a better person.

Every day.

Understands your culture, your world.

Understands my culture. She knows everything about my mother.

It's like your mom handpicked her almost from above.

Right, and put her in my life.

That's all for this edition of Dateline. We'll see you again Friday at 9, 8 central. And of course, I'll see you each weeknight for NBC Nightly News. I'm Lester Holt for all of us at NBC News. Good night.