The killings were placed in south-eastern Iran and the victims were lorry drivers, killed for their vehicles. He was convicted of ten murders and hanged in public at the weekend of June 11 and 12, 2005. Iranian reporting called him the Yellow Scorpion. Yaghoub Mirshekari was born in 1957.
An Agence France-Presse dispatch of June 13, 2005 reporting the public execution is the whole of the accessible record. Iranian courts do not publish judgments in cases of this kind, the victims have not been named in any source that can be checked, and no account of the investigation or the evidence exists in print outside Iran.
Public executions in Iran in this period were reported by wire services from local news agency copy, which is a chain that carries the state's account and nothing else. The figure of ten and the method should both be read as announced rather than established.