“The Trials of Frank Carson” Update
Attorney Frank Carson spent decades defending the accused in California's Central Valley. He made powerful enemies among law enforcement. When they pu...
Killer with a Badge: How the LAPD Missed a Murderer in its Ranks
In 1986, 29-year-old Sherri Rasmussen was just starting her married life when she was brutally murdered in her Van Nuys home. The LAPD called it a “bu...
Death on the Set of the Twilight Zone Movie
When a helicopter crash killed actor Vic Morrow and two children on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, the filmmakers called it an unforeseeable acc...
Satanic Panic: A Death in the Manson Tunnel
On the summer solstice in 1990, a UCLA student with an interest in the occult was stabbed to death in a railway tunnel in the San Fernando Valley. Rum...
Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy
When 21-year old college dropout Christopher Boyce got a job as a clerk at the TRW Defense and Space Systems complex in Redondo Beach, he was given ac...
I Killed John Belushi
When comic John Belushi died of a speedball overdose at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont, it wasn’t clear there had been a crime—until the National Enquire...
The Other Side of the Door: The Case Against Lee Baca
James Sexton endures weeks of solitary confinement in federal prison, as prosecutors finally gear up to take Lee Baca to trial. Baca’s lawyers claim h...
The Generals: Power, Deception and a Cover-Up that Goes to the Top
The feds interview Baca’s flinty #2 man and heir apparent, Paul Tanaka, who professes ignorance about who gave the order to hide Anthony Brown. In 201...
Inside Man: A Jailer Turns Informant
James Sexton thinks Operation Pandora’s Box is behind him. When he reports a superior officer for misconduct, he is branded a snitch and treated as a ...
Gunning Up: L.A. County’s Top Cop Versus the Feds
When Lee Baca took over the LA County Sheriff’s Department in 1998, he inherited a scandal-plagued agency. He built a reputation as a progressive refo...