Crime Stoppers offers $200,000 reward in Iranian woman’s killing
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26-May-2012 (one comment)

he unsolved murder of a student at the Texas Medical Center has prompted Crime Stoppers of Houston to offer a $200,000 reward, the largest cash amount ever in the organization’s history.

Crime Stoppers announced last month an increased reward of $10,000 for information leading to an arrest or charges in the Jan. 16 fatal shooting of Gelareh Bagherzadeh, an outspoken critic of human rights policies in her native Iran.

On Tuesday, the organization increased that amount yet again, to $200,000. Houston Police Department Sgt. J. C. Padilla  said investigators have no motive in the case.

“We are not ruling out anything at this point,” Padilla said. “The more we talk to people, the more we realize we need the community’s help.”

Katherine Cabaniss, executive director of Crime Stoppers of Houston, said the reward doubles the previous largest reward of $100,000 offered in the 2006 Clear Lake murders of four young people.  It resulted in a tip that helped solve the case, she said.

“Rewards of this size work.” Cabaniss said.

Bagherzadeh, 30, was shot while driving her car about 12:30 a.m. outside her parents’ townhome in the 800 block of Augusta near Sugar Hill near the Galleria area. After she was shot, the vehicle crashed into property in the townhouse complex.

Bagherzadeh, who was studying molecular genetic technology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, was active in promoting Iranian women’s... >>>

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Ghalareh Bagherzadeh

by Simorgh5555 on Sat May 26, 2012 02:34 PM PDT

My condolences to the family of Galareh who still have not been able to bring closure to her death and her murderer has still not been caught. 

The fac that no money or valuable was stolen from her car bears all the wholemarks of a random drive by shooting or an assassination on the part of the IR Terror Regime. 

 


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