The LAPD told me they’d destroyed all their investigative reports; they’d retained some files, but they weren’t about to release them to me. How could they have trashed their records of the most infamous case in the history of the city? I didn’t believe it. I asked them to put it in writing, and they did, stating in an official letter that “a thorough and proper search” produced “no records”; all the evidence had been “destroyed.”
