Fully clothed, the dead man looks as if he is simply taking a nap. There is no forced entry into the apartment, but there seems to have been a violent battle at the locked bedroom door-- and get this: the phone call reporting the murder came from inside the dead man's bedroom by someone using the poor fellow's cordless phone.
The last people to see this victim alive were a young couple -- teens, actually ,the girl was 7, months pregnant, and a mutual friend of both the teens and the murder victim -- a low level criminal specializing in identity theft and bank fraud.
Investigating this 2004 murder in West Hollywood took us down a path of deception and dishonesty involving a plot to steal a fortune gold, smuggle Molly (MDMA) into California, billions of dollars stolen from the government by a joint effort of the American Mafia and the Russian Mob, and we even get to the #1 reason you can't get a fair trial if you are set up by a snitch.
BUT WHO MURDERED THE DEAD GUY ON THE BED?
The last people to see this victim alive were a young couple -- teens, actually ,the girl was 7, months pregnant, and a mutual friend of both the teens and the murder victim -- a low level criminal specializing in identity theft and bank fraud.
Investigating this 2004 murder in West Hollywood took us down a path of deception and dishonesty involving a plot to steal a fortune gold, smuggle Molly (MDMA) into California, billions of dollars stolen from the government by a joint effort of the American Mafia and the Russian Mob, and we even get to the #1 reason you can't get a fair trial if you are set up by a snitch.
BUT WHO MURDERED THE DEAD GUY ON THE BED?