She wrote down the truck's license plate number and police traced it to Handley. A neighbor told police she'd seen three men exit the vehicle and that they were acting suspiciously. Handley's truck had been spotted behind the victims' home on the afternoon before the kidnapping. Nayeri became linked to the kidnapping after police found a glove with his DNA in it inside of a truck belonging to his business partner, Kyle Handley, who had been arrested in connection to the kidnapping, torture and mutilation, according to Newport Beach Police Sgt. 'I just had no clue that it was going to turn into mess that it did.' 'Obviously, there was some involvement that I did have,' Nayeri told ABC News.

Nayeri admitted that he carried out video surveillance of Michael for months before the kidnapping, but denies taking part in the kidnapping, torture and mutilation. The pair was rescued and the victim underwent surgery for repair of the penile amputation. Then, she walked barefoot through the desert to reach a road, where a police officer saw her while driving by. The kidnappers left behind the knife, which Mary Barnes used to cut the zip ties around her feet. Ensuring that it is never recovered to be reattached is a level of depravity and cruelty that…this man should never get out of prison,' said Matt Murphy, the former senior deputy district attorney for Orange County who prosecuted Nayeri's case and who is now an ABC News consultant. Then, authorities say the perpetrators drove away with Michael's penis, leaving him and Barnes in the desert.

He was then doused with bleach in an effort to remove any DNA evidence, the prosecutor says. Once there, one of the perpetrators cut off Michael's penis. Michael was brutally beaten and burned with a blowtorch on their way to the desert. Marine, along with two people whom he characterized as 'business partners,' tied the two victims up and drove them to the Mojave Desert where Nayeri and his associates believed the dispensary owner had buried $1 million in cash.

Nayeri was about to stand trial on charges related to the October 2012 kidnapping of the dispensary owner, who asked to use only his first name, Michael, and Mary Barnes from their Newport Beach, California, home.

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