The video game that revealed the murderer of Markham

The video game that revealed the murderer of Markham: The massacre of the Saman family

On July 27, 2019, a young man streamed live to strangers in ten countries while he murdered four members of his family. He then went to sleep, played video games, and waited calmly. The local police did not react - but a network of digital hunters on Discord did.

In this episode, we explore how ten strangers tracked the murderer through reverse image searches, PayPal payments, and emergency requests to gaming servers while the authorities slept. We unravel eight years of college lies, a false online identity, and a confession that revealed a calculated crime - not impulsive - with roots in 2016.

Victim: Saman family (Momotas, Moniruz, Malesa, Firuza)
Date: July 27, 2019
Location: Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Status: Guilty; life sentence without parole for 40 years (November 2020)

- Menaz Saman murdered his mother and grandmother at 3:00 PM, then played video games for eight hours before killing his sister and father.
- The Discord messages included selfies with a bloody knife taken while the bodies were still warm in the house.
- A group of digital hunters in multiple countries narrowed the search to an exact address in Toronto by tracing the IP of Skype and PayPal payments before dawn.
- He confessed that the motivation was to prevent his parents from discovering an eight-year academic lie - he never completed even one semester of college in 2015.

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