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Eddie Harris and Les McCann, but this version is John Legend and The Roots.”
won’t. And I agree, Black lives matter.”
After a year of pandemic and anti-police sentiment, commitment to the job was sometimes hard to find.
Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don’t give a shit and don’t view rape as much of a crime.”
Henrik Bastin.
There had been no DNA recovered in the other two Midnight Men cases either.
MOSA—multiple offender sexual assault.
Native Bean had become her go-to spot to pick up coffee and an occasional blueberry muffin in the mornings after work,
“Like ski masks. One was green and one was blue.”
“One of them was pulling on his shirt. I saw a bandage on his arm.”
The two previous victims had said they showered before going to bed on the nights they were assaulted. With only two victims saying this, it could be coincidence. But three out of three became a pattern.
Ballard always had to think about the moves ahead while trying to solve the present case.
bringing with them a Dustbuster, which was swept over the victim and locations in the house before the suspects exited.
Mr. Green, as they had taken to calling the suspect with the green ski mask, had red pubic hair,
Mr. Blue had dark, near-black pubic hair.
Mr. Blue—said, ‘You’re going to be all right, doll. You’ll look back on this one day and smile.’ Then he laughed and they were gone.”
“This closet was vacuumed. I think this is where he hid.”
MOSAs are usually gang rapes. Not two guys with the same psychopathy.”
“They feed off each other. One and one makes three…they escalate, get more violent. Eventually the rape is not enough. They kill. You have to get them now, Renée.”
But there were also things about this latest occurrence that were unique.
primary difference was geographic location.
It was riskier to pick a victim in this neighborhood.
These homes didn’t even need fences and gates; the natural topography provided security.
targeted as prey somewhere else and followed to her home.
BMW electrics that were used by the forensics teams.
conducted single-destination trips to crime scenes and then back to the mother ship.
If Cindy Carpenter was still at work and her car was with her, then how did the Midnight Men open the garage?
Rodney Spellman.
Ronin Clarke was a detective with the Sexual Assault Unit. He
Two of a Kind, by Darcy O’Brien.
All three women had crossed the perpetrators’ radar somewhere else. Ballard now had to find that crossing point.
Lambkin questionnaire,”
There is something vindictive about this. With the photo and the cutting of your hair. All of that.”
watch lieutenant was a lifer named Dante Rivera
what was on camera was one of the two Fs: use of force or people fucking—both of which could happen on any traffic or stationary car stop.
first victim, Roberta Klein,
attorney’s name—Evelyn Edwards—
She called the second victim, Angela Ashburn,
Mitchell Carr, thirty-four years old and living on Commonwealth in Los Feliz.
I even knew Peter the Hermit back in the day.”
Jack Kersey. Chairman of the street-lighting committee, Hollywood Dell Association.”
respond to a death scene under the Gower Street overpass.
one of the most crowded, ugliest homeless communities in Hollywood.
Gower Grim,
spray-painted the slogan “No Mask, No Vax, No Problem.”
“death by misadventure”—the phrase the Medical Examiner’s Office liked to use.
“Purple Haze,” Ballard said. “What’s that supposed to mean?” “Jimi Hendrix asphyxiated on his own vomit after taking too many pills. So did this guy. Did anybody get an ID?”
The man was not in the system. This was unusual—almost unheard of—for a homeless drug user.
“Peter the Hermit” into the search engine. She discovered that he had been a legendary denizen of the Dell.
He was also credited with being one of the first to work the character impersonator trade on Hollywood Boulevard, posing in his biblical robes for tourists in exchange for tips.
