Tech tycoon husband arrested after wife found dead below mountain highway in wealthy enclave

After weeks of investigation, authorities have arrested the estranged husband of a Newport Beach woman whose body was found down a steep embankment in a San Bernardino County mountain town in California.

Gordon Abas Goodarzi, 66, of Rolling Hills Estates, was arrested Friday on suspicion of murder in the death of his longtime wife and business partner, Aryan Papoli, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Papoli, 58, was found dead Nov. 18 about 75 feet below Highway 138 near Crestline Road in the mountain community of Crestline. While early findings noted injuries consistent with a fall, the San Bernardino County Coroner later ruled her death a homicide…

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