Murder of an NFL Star

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Discretion advice. This is ten minute
murder. Thirty six year old professional football

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player Steve McNair enjoyed a successful and
lucrative career in the NFL. The Houston

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Oilers drafted him third overall in nineteen
ninety five, and two years later he

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was named their regular starting quarterback.
When the team moved to Nashville and was

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renamed to the Tennessee Titans, he
was given the nickname Air McNair and played

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a total of thirteen seasons in the
NFL, eleven for the Titans and two

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more with the Baltimore Ravens before he
announced his retirement from football in two thousand

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and seven. At the time of
his retirement, Steve had been married to

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his wife, Michelle for a decade, and the two of them had two

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sons together. It's been a great
ride, he said after his last game.

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It's a sad, emotional day for
me. I'm trying to do the

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best I can to hold it in, but at the same time, I'm

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opening up a lot more doors for
the future. I can become now the

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father I need to be to my
kids. However, Steve struggled to cope

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with moving away from the fame and
the sense of purpose that professional football had

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given him. So many pro athletes
focused on sports so much from the time

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they are kids until the time they
retire, that once they do retire,

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they can struggle to fit into the
real world. One of his former teammates

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later told a media quote, what
people fail to realize is that when you

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make a transition away from the game
emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually,

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you go through something, you change, and you're constantly searching for something.

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Steve never got the chance to adjust
to his retirement. Only two years later,

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on the fourth of July, Steve's
dead body was found in the Nashville

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condo he rented. He had been
shot to death, but he wasn't alone.

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Lying next to him, there was
another dead body belonging to twenty year

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old Sahel Kazimi. Sahel, who
went by the nickname Jenny, had lived

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a difficult life. When she was
nine years old, her mother had been

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violently murdered. As a teenager,
she and her family fled their home country

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of Iran and moved to Florida.
Jenny moved away from her family, the

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only source of support in her life, to Nashville to live with her twenty

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year old boyfriend, Keith Norfleet.
At the time, Jenny was only sixteen

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years old. In two thousand and
nine, Jenny and Keith had recently broken

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up, but she was still living
in Nashville, working as a waitress in

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a chain restaurant that Steve McNair often
visited. It was Dave Embusters at Opry

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Mills, in case you were wondering. She had become familiar with Steve because

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he was such a frequent customer and
always made an effort to talk to the

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staff there. Quote he was one
of the nice guys who would talk to

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you, another coworker at the restaurant
said, not like the other athletes.

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Jenny developed romantic feelings for Steve and
ended up giving him her cell phone number.

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Despite having a wife and a family, Steve started texting Jenny and taking

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her on expensive dates. The nature
of their relationship made their different lifestyles obvious.

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Jenny was a nineteen year old who
worked a minimum wage job, and

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Steve was a famous athlete in his
thirties who owned multiple properties and businesses.

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He took Jenny with him on luxurious
vacations, and when she turned twenty,

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he bought her a new car,
a Cadillac Escalade. Jenny was naturally excited

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to tell her family back in Florida
that one day she and Steve would get

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married and buy a house together.
While Jenny was smitten with Steve, her

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family didn't feel the same way.
They were skeptical. None of her family

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members were fans of the NFL,
so they weren't impressed with Steve's name,

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career, or status. Mostly,
they were concerned about the fact that Steve

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was married, with a family of
his own and didn't seem to plan on

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leaving his wife for Jenny. Steve's
lack of commitment wasn't the only source of

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stress in Jenny's life. When Steve
had gifted her the Cadillac, I'm using

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air quotes on gifted, he also
had arranged for her to make monthly payments

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on the car, which was in
both of their names. Jenny still hadn't

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sold her own car, and the
costs kept piling up. Side note,

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if you give someone a gift and
that gift is a huge car payment,

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are you really giving them a gift? Anyway? She had been living in

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an apartment with a roommate, splitting
the one thousand dollars monthly rent between the

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two of them, but then the
roommate moved out, leaving Jenny struggling to

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pay the whole sum herself. On
the day that he died, Steve received

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a text from Jenny asking if he
loved her, to which he responded,

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I love you baby. During that
same conversation, Jenny confessed to Steve that

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she was stressed about money and couldn't
afford paying for her cell phone bill.

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Steve responded by transferring Jenny a total
of two thousand dollars and then went to

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visit her to check if she was
okay. Despite Steve seeming to go out

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of his way to take care of
Jenny, their relationship had not been easy.

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Throughout their affair, Steve had been
struggling to keep Jenny a secret from

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his wife, Michelle. Jenny wanted
to be in a serious, monogamous relationship

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with Steve, but he didn't feel
the same way. In fact, she

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wasn't the only woman he was having
an affair with. Jenny found used condoms

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in Steve's bedroom and started to stalk
the other woman that she believed he was

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seeing. As she became more and
more pushy, repeatedly calling Steve when he

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was spending time with his family.
Steve became distant. He tried to pull

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back from the relationship, but he
never stopped seeing her entirely. Only two

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days before Steve and Jenny died,
Jenny had been pulled over by the Nashville

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police and arrested for drunk driving.
She was driving a black Cadillac, the

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car that Steve bought for her twentieth
birthday, and Steve was sitting in the

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passenger seat. As the officers arrested
Jenny and escorted her to the police car.

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Jenny repeatedly begged for Steve to come
to the police car to speak with

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her. However, Steve wasn't under
arrest, so instead of talking to Jenny,

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he called a taxi and left the
scene. Later that day, he

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paid Jenny's bad and immediately after she
was released from jail, she went to

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buy a gun. Investigators were left
with two dead bodies and no survivors to

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immediately tell them who had pulled the
trigger and why. The murder weapon,

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a nine millimeter gun, was found
underneath Jenny Kazimi's body, and forensic testing

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found gunpowder residue on the fingers and
palm of her left hand. Unlike Jenny,

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who had been shot in the head
at close range, Steve had been

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shot three times from a distance of
more than three feet away, as well

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as one final shot at point blank
range. Because of the positioning of his

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body and the gunshot wounds, Steve
was believed to have been asleep when he

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was killed. The forensic evidence allowed
the police to reach a conclusion the deaths

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were a murder suicide where Jenny shot
Steve to death and then sat down on

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the couch next to his body and
committed suicide with the same gun. It

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it appeared that she sat next to
him and hoped that she would fall sideways

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and die lying in his lap,
but instead she had fallen to the floor.

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The investigation into the case was studied
by retired FBI Greg McCrary, who

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had more than ten years experience working
in the Bureau's Behavioral Science unit. Greg

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came to the same conclusion as the
police that Jenny killed Steve because of stress

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that came from their relationship and her
financial situation. Greg didn't believe that Steve's

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murder had been spontaneous. From Jenny's
cell phone records and her decision to buy

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a gun. It appeared that she
had decided that she was going to kill

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Steve before she met up with him
that night. She had also shot him

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a total of four times, even
though every one of the wounds would have

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been fatal on its own. Quote
to me, shooting him more than once

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is kind of that revenge thing.
We have something like this when we deal

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with overkill. It's more emotion,
it's more effective, more rage, more

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getting. Even whatever that motive may
be, she hadn't just wanted to hurt

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Steve. She had shot him repeatedly, beginning when he was asleep on the

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couch, because she was determined to
end his life. The rest of the

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crime scene details supported Greg mccrary's belief
that the murder had been an act of

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revenge and possession. This certainly looks
like an attempt at posing, he said,

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agreeing that Jenny had planned on dying
in Steve's lap. Quote, She's

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dressed up in all this pink,
which is very feminine, and trying to

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have her body on his. It's
as though it's a symbolic kind of possession.

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The day before she killed Steve,
Jenny had talked with a friend about

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the stress in her life quote I
should just end it. That is ten

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