The older couple first came to the public eye on a winter night in Tehran, when their film director son invited them to the stage after a screening. They were frail, and seemingly shy, and the younger man helped his mother up the stairs, then draped his arm around his father’s shoulder. The victims were drugged, suffocated, stabbed and then dismembered, the authorities say. The couple has confessed to the crimes, but if Mr. Khorramdin, a retired army colonel, and Ms. Mousavi, a homemaker, are remorseful, they have done a good job hiding it. “I have no guilty conscience for any of the murders,” Mr. Khorramdin said in a television interview from detention.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2021 09:00 UTC