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Because there is social capital is being associated with access to expensive cars and with piles of cash. The driver has previously demonstrated his habit of using social media to build his personal brand by bragging about his use of the victims' cars. He likes expensive cars, but can only get...

It sounds like the assistant told an inaccurate story to police which suggested he was not aware that the package he had been directed to deliver contained a large amount of cash. Now maybe the other employee said something like "Oh, I was supposed to have this wrapped up before I gave it to...

Interesting. I'd be surprised if Domino's was pizza of choice of the victims.

Jean Clinton Roeschlaub, 83, was murdered in her 16th floor penthouse condominium apartment at 222 Monterey Rd., Glendale, CA ‎on August 1 or August 2, 2006. (An apartment one floor lower is pictured here.) The cause of death was stabbing, and she was reported to have been found face down...

There have been several recent posts talking about the Cecil/Stay building being nearly empty of residents and hotel guests. I don't know where this idea originated, but I do not believe this is correct. All of the hotels of this type in downtown (longtime residence SROs) are at or near...

There is also the possibility that entry into the water tank was entirely accidental, a result of an urban exploration (urbex) adventure gone wrong, like the incident in December when Nicholas Wieme was on a hotel roof in Chicago taking photos, and fell down a smokestack. Had he been alone, it...

A few observations from a local: • I have spoken to someone who saw and spoke with Elisa in the Last Bookstore on January 31. (Yes, they have contacted police.) She was being inappropriately talkative and pesky with other customers, which combined with the purchasing heavy items (books and...

I remembered a weird incident from late December, when someone who was apparently a resident of one of the fancy apartments on Spring Street (a couple of blocks from the Cecil) came naked out of the lobby and attacked a car. There is video. The buzz at the time was that he may have voluntarily...

mollymae, I know the area well, and your assumptions are incorrect. Homeless people do not live in SRO residency hotels, which is what the majority of this hotel still operates as (the Cecil portion)--the "hip" hostel portion (Stay) which is marketed to foreign tourists is a small portion of...

The settlement money from such incidents comes from the taxpayers, not from the police officers who are found to have wrongly injured or killed civilians. It has no deterrent value.

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/may/25/niece-arrested-2009-ventura-keys-killing-wendy-dir/ Less than a month after Wendy Di Rodio was found fatally stabbed in her first-floor bedroom in the Ventura Keys, police had identified her niece as one of several possible suspects.... Police had a...

"No blemish on his public record?" Maybe not personally, but Abrams headed up a very ineffective commission which oversees a controversial Neighborhood Council system that is been a hotbed of bad behavior. The agency directly under Abrams' control is widely seen to be incompetent at best...

There is a prior thread, which frankly gave me chills, called "Tammy Akers & Angela Rader." Alcala had photos that look very much like both these teens who ran away from Virginia together in 1977. Tammy Akers was the Sissy Spacek lookalike, a good match for the girl in the peach blouse. I think...

One thing to bear in mind is that things rot fast by water, so the steps and other features we are seeing in old photos may no longer be present in the same locations today.

I wish that law enforcement would invest some time in rendering these and other images from Alcala's storage locker viewable by the extraordinary resource of this hive mind. Photo editing tools can be used to obscure nudity or other objectionable imagery while still leaving more clues...

I recognized another album cover, don't think this one was called out before. It's another Jefferson Airplane LP, After Bathing At Baxters (1967), about 6 discs to the left of the Cream LP. It's the one that looks like a Y-shaped twig on a white background, under a blue top band. For what it's...

Those concentric ring wrinkles on a young woman suggest, to me, that she was a heavy reader. If you lie in bed reading a few hours a day, you get those.

Until he began very publicly dating Nastassja Kinski circa 1976, Roman Polanski did not have a reputation for being interested in young girls and women; he had been married to two adult women in the 1960s. While I don't condone his behavior with his victim Samantha Geimer in 1977, I wonder if...

Yes, Filly, Hodel's son is a retired LAPD detective. Interesting about your mother's remarks. When was she saying that she thought John Huston had a Black Dahlia connection? Was this after Hodel's book was first released in 2003, or before?

Those "flower petal" style rubber swimming caps were commonly used in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The hair was kept dry underneath, but instead of a bald cap look, ladies would look like they had a rubbery fright wig on. Google image search for "vintage swim cap" and you;ll see some similar...