Christina Carlozzi
Appearances
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
My name is Christina Carlozzi. I'm recently retired from LAPD.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
I was working domestic violence table, which could encompass criminal threats, batteries, online threats, things like that. So my boss came to me and said, I have a case for you. She said, this guy, do you know his name? Joe Francis.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
She said, well, he's kind of a high profile person in West Los Angeles and Hollywood. So she goes, just be careful. You know, you need to do everything right with this investigation.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
They wanted to go out to Hollywood to a club. And they were not girls that go to Hollywood. They're really good girls. And that's when one of the girls was approached by Joe Francis. She's an introvert. She wasn't somebody who was out there like dancing and doing crazy things. She was just kind of staying close to her sister on the side.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
And I think that's why maybe he approached her because she wasn't like a regular Hollywood girl.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
And then he shows up. the valet in his black SUV Cadillac. He said, hey, you guys need a ride. And they said, oh, no, our cars parked two blocks away from the club. And one of the girls, the one that was the smallest, he grabbed her arm and kind of pushed her into the Cadillac.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
So the other two girls said, hey, what are you doing? We're just, we're gonna go around the corner. We don't need a ride two blocks. The door started to shut. So then that's when they stopped it and they got in. They're like, okay, we're not gonna let her go. We don't know what's happening.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
The Cadillac takes off and they start to go down Hollywood Boulevard and going in an opposite direction of where their vehicle was. And that's when one of the girls said, hey, you know, we're not, we're not, what are you doing? We need to get out. And then he said, well, don't you know who I am? I mean, they're 21, 22.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
I mean, they weren't even, I don't even think they were born when his whole enterprise came about. I mean, he was 40 something at that time, 42. They're like, no, we don't know who you are. Then that's when they were really scared. She didn't know if they were going to end up, you know, in the hills somewhere and murdered. So she called 911. I think it was approximately 14 times.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
And because of the area, it didn't go through. They ended up through these gates. And that's when the Cadillac stopped. And one of them was trying to get out and the door was locked and they couldn't actually even get out, even though they were in the front of his driveway. And he said, I'll call you a taxi, come inside.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
I want to show you my house and I want to show you I have a bunch of really cool Lamborghinis or something.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
All of a sudden, Joe comes out of nowhere and just grabs the main battery victim by the back of her head, her hair, and slams her head four times down on the tile, just telling her to just shut up. And she's just yelling to stop. She's screaming at this point. He's just banging her head on the floor. He lets go and then the other girls come out. She's just stunned.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
She did not see it coming, he came behind her. He said, get out, all of you get out. You know, I called the taxi, he's coming. She tries to call 911 in between this, which it did pick up and then it dropped again. So then this taxi shows up within a few minutes and then they get in the taxi. And then that's when Joe comes out of his house, you know, comes down the driveway and says,
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
Don't you call the police. Don't you do anything. Don't call the police. I own LAPD. The taxi takes off. She's still trying to call 911. And I actually went through. Once I got down the hill from Bel Air, it picked up on somewhere near Hollywood Boulevard. What's your emergency? She said, I need LAPD. I need the police to come to my car. I think it's parked on Cahuenga Boulevard.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
The police show up at her vehicle. The officer is like, you need to go to the hospital. You all need to go to the hospital. She didn't know if she was going to live or not or have eternal bleeding. She was very scared.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
We said, OK, well, he's got to show up for his hearing. And he never showed up. He fled to Mexico.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
So then we had to put a warrant in the system. The warrant was $500,000 for his arrest. After that, we never heard from the lawyer, nothing. He's just out of pocket, left.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
I don't think anybody knows that he has a warrant out. I really don't. He's still a wanted person. This just doesn't go away. When you have a warrant, it just doesn't fade into nowhere.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
He can come to the U.S., but if he's driving a vehicle and he's speeding and an officer pulls him over, if you run someone's name, the warrant pops up and they can take him.
Infamous
Encore: The Rise and Fall of Girls Gone Wild | Part 5
He'll be stopped one day because he does not obey the rules and he is... gonna be caught one day. I just, I know it. It's just a matter of time.