The 27-year-old daughter of the professional wrestler known as the
Iron Sheik was strangled over the weekend, leading police to arrest
her boyfriend Monday.
Clayton County police found the body of Marissa Jeanne Vaziri in a bed
at the Riverdale-area apartment she shared with Charles Warren
Reynolds, 38.
She was the second local woman linked to professional wrestling to die
in a week.
Elizabeth Hulette, known to wrestling fans as Miss Elizabeth, died
Thursday in the Cobb County home she shared with Lawrence Pfohl, who
wrestled as Lex Luger. Preliminary autopsy results uncovered no foul
play in Hulette's death, but Pfohl was charged with possessing illegal
bodybuilding drugs.
Medical examiners said Vaziri was strangled.
The Rev. Mark Medlin of the Riverdale Church of God told police that
Reynolds called him about 8 a.m. Sunday, asking the pastor to pray
with him. When police arrived, Medlin and two church members were at
the apartment.
"It's my fault. Take me, I've done wrong," Reynolds told police,
according to investigators' initial report. The pair had been drinking
and taking pills, Capt. Jeff Turner said.
Vaziri did not work in the wrestling business, said her mother, Caryl
Vaziri.
The victim was the oldest daughter of Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, 60,
whose wrestling name was the Iron Sheik. He and his wife live in
Fayette County.