After a sheriff’s deputy found a woman bound and panicking on the side of the road in the Mojave Desert in 2012, authorities learned that this may have been a grisly crime involving the search for suspected buried treasure. The discovery kicked off a years-long investigation that spanned undercover operations, an international search, a prison break, and a courtroom showdown between lead prosecutor Matt Murphy and the man authorities said was pulling the strings in a sinister game of greed and violence—Hossein Nayeri.