The State - News from Oct. 25, 1985

A phony heart surgeon who inherited an elderly woman’s $350,000 estate has been charged with murdering her. Ebrahim Sadeghy, 38, was arrested in the San Jose suburb of Campbell in connection with the June 11 death of Myrtle Reid, 84, who suffered from severe cardiovascular disease, Santa Clara County district attorney’s investigators said. Sadeghy, who was adopted by Reid, advised her to stop taking medication and to jump up and down for 15 minutes to relieve her stomach pain, investigators said. “It’s like putting a .45 to her head and pulling the trigger. She needed the medications to live,” Investigator Robert Hamilton said a doctor in the case told him. Sadeghy has denied that he advised Reid to stop taking medicine or that he ever treated her as a physician, officials said. However, court documents said he admitted using “MD” after his name, although he has no medical degree.