An Iranian podcaster identified as Mahdi Pourbaghi is going viral after reportedly killing his wife and then himself.
Mahdi is the host of a popular true-crime podcast and reportedly narrated an episode titled “The Last Witness” which seemingly foreshadowed his coming actions.
In the days following the podcast, Pourbaghi reportedly killed his wife and then himself in a way that followed the events of his final podcast.
Who was Mahdi Pourbaghi?
Mahdi Pourbaghi was an Iranian podcaster and graduate student in Bioinformatics at the Memorial University in Newfoundland.
Pourbaghi received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology in the Iranian capital of Tehran in 2011.
He followed that up with a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics at the Tarbiat Modares University, also in Tehran, in 2022.
In September of the same year, he started a PhD in Bioinformatics at the Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Pourbaghi was also famous as the host of a true crime podcast.
He’s currently trending after he was alleged to have killed his wife in gruesome fashion.
Following the alleged crime, Mahdi reportedly packed his wife’s dismembered body into a suitcase and dumped her somewhere within the city of St John.
On July 15th, Mahdi was found dead in his home in St John. He is believed to have committed suicide.
A day later on the 16th, a random person walking the streets of St John found a suitcase containing human remains, which turned out to be that of his wife.
According to reports, while Mahdi had been living in Newfoundland since 2022 due to his studies, his wife joined him in Canada a few months ago, in May.
According to police records, there have been no prior cases of domestic abuse involving the couple.
The stunning death of Pourbaghi and his wife in the wake of his eerie last podcast has gotten social media users talking.
Many have been left stunned by the turn of events of a crime podcast host and a very brilliant PhD student seemingly killing his wife and himself for no damn good reason.
