Taherah Ghassemi was 54 when she disappeared from her Baton Rouge home on the evening of April 11, 2015. Her son returned to find a pot of rice burning on the stove and Taherah’s purse and identification still inside; her car was later found miles away, completely destroyed by fire. A month later, on May 16, 2015, her body was found wrapped in a comforter and buried in a shallow grave in a remote, wooded area of St. Helena Parish. An autopsy confirmed she died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators concluded this was not random violence but a paid plot tied to Taherah’s recent divorce settlement, which awarded her $1 million and two homes. Prosecutors say her ex-husband, 64-year-old car dealer Hamid Ghassemi, hired three men and paid them $10,000 to abduct and kill her; the men allegedly subdued her with an injection, transported her to the burial site, and shot her after she began to regain consciousness.

All four men were arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Questions remain about the sequence of events that night and how the killers chose the burial site. If anyone knew Taherah, her movements on April 11, 2015, or the individuals involved, please share what is known with authorities.