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Karim Zakikhani 1984

Karim Zakikhani of Harris County, TX was born on February 29, 1984. Karim Zakikhani was married to Jennifer A. (Peacock) Zakikhani on April 15, 2009 in Harris County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Karim Zakikhani.

Karim Zakikhani

Harris County, TX

February 29, 1984

Harris County, Texas, United States

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Karim's mother was Sandra Kay Peterson. Records show that Karim lived in Houston Texas. In 2013, Karim, who was a security guard, met a fellow security guard at work (Sarita Anderson) and started an extra-marital affair with her. They both had STD testing but his test was blank under "HIV" He said that the doctor would call him if he tested positive. (That was a lie.) In 2014, the girlfriend experienced "flu like" symptoms and lost a great amount of weight. She found out that she had caught HIV from Karim and that he knew that he had HIV at least 5 years before. Sarita talked to Karim's wife and mother and found out the truth: He knowingly and intentionally infected her with HIV. Sarita brought suit against Karim and in 2018, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Read the full story: ‘I Was Sleeping With The Enemy’: The case was featured on "Evil Lives Here" on July 17 2022 at 10/9c on ID.
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1984

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February 29, 1984

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Harris County, Texas United States

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Karim was born in Texas and is a United States citizen.
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Kathy Pinna

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07/18/2022

‘I Was Sleeping With The Enemy’:

Texas Woman Helps Send Her ‘Diabolical’ Ex To Prison - From ID crimefeed

Sarita Anderson still wonders “how many women died, or almost died” because of Karim Zakikhani’s lies.

By: Aaron Rasmussen

A Texas woman whose life was upended by an ex-boyfriend she said was “masterful” at lying and keeping secrets summoned the strength to fight back and get him locked up for decades.

“What he did to me and other women was just reckless and diabolical,” Sarita Anderson said of “sociopath” Karim “Tyson” Zakikhani. “I did not see him coming…he just didn’t care as long as he got what he wanted, and that’s evil.”

Anderson met Zakikhani in 2013 at a hospital in Houston where they both worked as security officers. He was friendly, charming and talkative, and the two had an “intense attraction” to each other, she said.

The first time they were intimate he told her it was her choice if they used protection or not. “He was more than willing to not wear a condom,” Anderson said. “He just told me it didn’t matter to him.”

Initially, the two always practiced safe sex, but as they grew closer, Zakikhani let Anderson know he didn’t use condoms when in a relationship. She insisted they both get tested, and they waited to have sex again until the results were back.

Anderson showed Zakikhani paperwork proving she was negative for all sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. While Zakikhani also shared his results with her, she noticed HIV was absent from the list.

His excuse? Zakikhani claimed the doctor told him he would only call about his HIV status if there was an issue, Anderson recalled.

“Knowing what I know now, it makes me angry,” she said, explaining her boyfriend’s lie made sense and she believed he was disease-free so she went on birth control and they stopped using protection. “He knew what he was doing was wrong. He knew he had HIV before he met me.”

Zakikhani learned his positive status years before in 2008, according to KPRC-TV.

“I was sleeping with the enemy,” Anderson said. “I was suspicious of everybody else but him, and the chaos was laying right next to me.”

In the spring of 2014, Anderson believed she had come down with a bad case of the flu, and she said Zakikhani appeared to be the concerned boyfriend “playing the role that he thought he should.”

“In retrospect,” she said, “I think he was just keeping a watchful eye to see exactly what was going on with my health or if [doctors] said anything about HIV” in order to “see what his next move should be.”

Stumped by her symptoms, doctors eventually tested Anderson for HIV after her health deteriorated even further and her weight plummeted 65 pounds. Her results came back positive for the disease and “there was no question he gave it to me,” Anderson said.

Initially suicidal, with time, Anderson decided she needed to hold her ex-boyfriend responsible for what he did to her. She started by calling his mother, who told her Zakikhani was married.

She next contacted Zakikhani’s wife. The woman told her that she tested positive for HIV in 2009 because of her husband, who knew he had the disease at the time.

“I hated his guts,” Anderson said of her ex. “I wished death on him every day. Every second of every day, I was thinking, ‘Why is he still breathing? Why is he still running around? Why is he able to enjoy himself? Why hasn’t anybody killed him? It made me mad that he was alive.”

Anderson then learned it was a crime to intentionally infect someone with HIV, and she called the police and filed a report. The case was turned over to the Special Victims Unit, and officers arrested Zakikhani within months.

Zakikhani, 38, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of a family member causing serious bodily injury. He accepted a plea deal and a judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison in June 2018.

“Karim was definitely a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” said Anderson, who got pregnant while they were together and now has a son with him. “Who knows how many women he infected, or how many women died, or almost died, and he doesn’t care…He’s evil, diabolical, reckless, careless, negligent. All those things, all those things rolled into one.”

“I call it my tragedy, the testimony, how I had to dig myself out of that hole and basically, I feel like the old me died, but I worked real hard to rebirth a new person and I feel like that person is better,” she said. “You don’t know how strong you can be until you have no choice but to be

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Karim Zakikhani's History: 1984

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2 Memories, Stories & Photos about Karim

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