Posted on 07/05/2025 9:35:31 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Sixteen years ago today, a quiet Fourth of July afternoon was interrupted with the stunning news that former NFL quarterback Steve McNair had been shot and killed.
McNair was 36 at the time.
The official explanation never made complete sense. Quickly solved as a murder-suicide, with McNair shot by his 20-year-old girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, who then supposedly shot herself.
The rush to close the case seemed odd. Police concluded that Kazemi shot McNair execution style, twice in the chest and twice in the head.
A subsequent effort to re-open the case ultimately failed. The issue was pressed by Vincent Hill, a former Nashville police officer who aggressively pursued the theory that it was not a murder-suicide.
In 2018, SI.com took a closer look at the unanswered questions in Fall of a Titan, a podcast series.
"I could make a case that things don’t add up," former Titans coach Jeff Fisher said in a 2024 Netflix documentary on the McNair murder. "I don't want to speculate. Just let it go."
Even now, it's hard to let it go. It's hard not to wonder whether someone got away with double murder. And while that won't change the fact that McNair was killed on this day in 2009, there's a nagging sense that justice may not have been done.
McNair was the NFL's co-MVP in 2003, and he led the team to the Super Bowl in 1999.
The third overall pick in 1995 out of Alcorn State, McNair spent 13 seasons in the NFL — 11 with the Oilers/Titans and two with the Ravens. The Titans retired his number (9) in 2019.
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Somehow, I missed this story when it came out 16 years ago.
You and me. A few months ago, I stumbled across a doc on Netflix about this and said the same to my wife.
If I am reading it right he had kids with two women before he married his wife who he also had kids with. He also had at least one current girlfriend. It takes a lot of money to handle all the affairs and kids. Perhaps it was getting short. Between the women and their past and perhaps current boyfriends, that is quite a few people with potential motives. The fact he was shot with a gun the woman he was sleeping with seems to make it pretty clear case though.
Crazy woman didn’t want to get dumped
He should have avoided that past booty call
Of course who does
He was very approachable and genial to everybody here
EYES LIKE A MARE ALWAYS BEWARE!
She was hardly the only one
He had lots of caz
I think she was Iranian ?
The story was his girlfriend killed him while he napped because he had another girlfriend, then killed herself.
It wasn’t him doing anything violent, he was literally napping on the couch.
https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/who-killed-chicago-bears-shaun-gayles-girlfriend-rhoni-reuter
DITTO, no clue about any of this.
DITTO, no clue about any of this.
DITTO, no clue about any of this.
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