After getting an early morning call about a body at an apartment complex, police officers canvass the area and interview the neighbors for clues. Detectives suspect it’s a so-called “body dump,” especially since nobody at the apartment complex seems to have heard anything the night before, and nobody recognizes the victim. That is, until a 13-year-old boy is called upon to identify the body. That’s when everything changes and the full scale of the tragedy comes into focus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What happens in the opening scene of the investigation?
It was February 23rd, 2021, when a series of police SUVs pulled up in the alley behind an apartment complex in Compton. The sun had only just started to rise, casting this piercing neon glow over the buildings. An officer with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department stepped out from one of the Ford Expeditions and put on a white face mask.
He walked past the dumpsters and through this narrow, gated walkway. It led to the apartment complex. Sneakers dangled from a telephone wire overhead. There on the dead grass between two buildings was this blue and gray patterned rug. It was big, five feet wide by eight feet long. And from a few steps back, it was hard to tell that there was anything underneath it.
As the officer got closer, he put on a pair of blue latex gloves. He lifted up a corner of the rug. And there beneath it was the body.
Do you have a 245?
You're gonna have a 245. Hey, start taping it off.
You're gonna have a 245, he said. Police code for assault with a deadly weapon. Officers started cordoning off the area with yellow tape. They wrapped it around palm trees and around the metal bars over apartment windows and around the basketball hoop on the concrete walkway. The apartment complex had become a crime scene.
Tenants began to wake up and mill about that morning, and officers shooed them away.
Oh, can't cross here right now, sorry. Yeah, you gotta go that way. No.
The Compton Fire Department showed up next. One of the firefighters wore a blue hoodie over his uniform and carried a defibrillator. Even he was spooked by what he saw when he approached the body. Oh, shit, he said. And then he wondered aloud what had happened. Did he get shot? Did he fall? A female officer in a khaki uniform stood next to him.
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Chapter 2: Who is Detective Leopoldo Sanchez?
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Hey there, Ed Helms here, host of Snafu, your favorite podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. It's the 1920s, Prohibition is in full swing, and a lot of people are mysteriously dying? Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker-Willibrand is becoming increasingly desperate in forcing Prohibition. She was a lone warrior. I mean, how could Mabel not be feeling the pressure?
Her bosses are drunks, her agents are incompetent, even Congress is full of hypocrites. So if Mabel is going to succeed in laying down the law, she needs to make the consequences for drinking hurt a lot more. Which she does. Arguably a little too well. Find out more on Season 3, Episode 4 of Snafu Formula 6.
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Chapter 3: How did the police and community respond to the crime scene?
Well, one thing my paranoia just wouldn't let up was about the cancer and his treatments. I asked his mom about it who told me he doesn't have cancer. She also informed me he was in rehab, not the hospital. He suffered from addiction and was trying to recover for me and our baby. Did she leave him?
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Leopoldo Sanchez hadn't left for work yet when he got the call. It was early on a Tuesday morning and he immediately knew what it meant. There had been a homicide and he was about to be assigned to the case.
The way our office works is you're on call for two straight days. And depending on where you're at in what we call a lineup, you kind of know, hey, the phone rings, you're up next.
Sanchez is a detective with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. He's got a buzz cut and he's built like a football player. He actually used to be one in high school in a suburb just east of Los Angeles. His former coach is now his partner at the Homicide Bureau. Sanchez has been working for the L.A. County Sheriff's Department for almost three decades. He didn't always think he'd end up a cop.
He was thinking civil engineer. Then he took a criminal justice class in college, and everything changed.
I got an A in the class, and I was like, holy smokes.
It wasn't the only thing that drew him to the field.
My best friend at the time was a year or two older than me, and he had just graduated from the Sheriff's Department Academy. And, I mean, he had a brand new car. He had a boat. Jetski was like, what's he doing that I'm not doing?
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Chapter 4: What challenges do investigators face at the crime scene?
Hey, how's it going, sir? It's hard to disturb you, sir. I have a question.
We have cameras, but it only gets to the inside of the yard.
You think he'll bite it, though?
The officer waited outside while the resident went to get his phone. He showed it to the officer, saying there's no view of the alley.
All right, so if you knock back and step on, the whole alley is blocked off right now. We have something happening last night, so we're trying to... So you won't be able to go that way, okay? They bought it back to you, man? Something of that nature, yeah. So we're just trying to, that's why we're trying to investigate.
Is there a dead body back there, man? The guy said, something around that nature. The officer replied. And then talk turned to politics. The guy blamed the DA at the time for releasing people from jail.
Yeah, it's starting to get back to how it was, you know?
Yeah, the DA is releasing everyone, man.
At another house down the street, the officer unlatched a white metal gate and walked up the driveway to the front door.
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Chapter 5: What insights do neighbors provide about the incident?
Our top story at five, a toddler is shot on the streets of Compton. He and his mother were in a car.
Sheriff's detectives are investigating a double murder tonight after three young men were shot to death in a Compton park late last night.
And now deputies are looking for the killer.
The crime scene that morning resulted in a headline of its own. Woman found stabbed and beaten to death in Compton. The article appeared in the L.A. Times. It said that deputies found the body of a, quote, Latina who had died from blunt trauma and stab wounds.
The article said that authorities were still trying to figure out whether she'd been robbed or sexually assaulted prior to her death, and that they had no leads on a suspect. It included a short statement from an L.A. County Sheriff's Department spokesperson. He said, she's Jane Doe right now.
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Chapter 6: How does the historical context of the area affect the case?
Hey there, Ed Helms here, host of Snafu, your favorite podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. It's the 1920s, Prohibition is in full swing, and a lot of people are mysteriously dying? Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker-Willibrand is becoming increasingly desperate in forcing Prohibition. She was a lone warrior. I mean, how could Mabel not be feeling the pressure?
Her bosses are drunks, her agents are incompetent, even Congress is full of hypocrites. So if Mabel is going to succeed in laying down the law, she needs to make the consequences for drinking hurt a lot more. Which she does. Arguably a little too well. Find out more on Season 3, Episode 4 of Snafu Formula 6.
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My husband cheated on me with two women! He wants to stay together because he has cancer. Should I stay?
Okay, Sam, that has to be the craziest story in OK Storytime podcast history.
Well, John, that's because it's Dump It Week, and this user writes, My partner told me when we first got together that he has cancer. He's currently living with his mom while he is in recovery, so that it takes the pressure off me caring for both him and her baby until he's well enough to move into our new home with us. He's good, so? Well, last week we had attempted break-in.
I asked my husband who was supposed to be at his mom's to come over and change locks, but he wouldn't. Then his mom told me he wasn't with her. I went to Facebook and it took me less than an hour to find the first two women he was cheating on me with.
Oh, what else is he lying about?
Well, one thing my paranoia just wouldn't let up was about the cancer and his treatments. I asked his mom about it who told me he doesn't have cancer. She also informed me he was in rehab, not the hospital. He suffered from addiction and was trying to recover for me and our baby. Did she leave him?
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