1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Amory Monos was last seen on a crisp Ellie winter day, 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: a Friday afternoon in January of two thousand and six. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: Do you have memories of that day? Yeah, we were 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: all getting ready for school and myself, my brother, and 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: my sister, Crystal, her younger sister, was six. They used 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: to share a room and I used to sleep in 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: the next room with my mom, and I remember I 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: woke up and they were yelling at each other, my 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: brother and my sister, and I was like, what's happening? 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: You know? Then my mom went over and she was like, 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: why are you guys fighting? They were fighting because my 12 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: brother unplugged her straight inner, plugged in his game boy 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: and they got in like the biggest fight ever. Crystal 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: was young, but she remembers the energy of that morning, 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: of the last day she saw her sister, the kind 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: of explosive feelings I remember having as a team whenever 17 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: anybody moved my stuff. The last memory that Crystal has 18 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: of her older sister isn't from that fight that morning. 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: Later that afternoon, after school, it was right before she 20 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: left that day. I looked outside. We had a really 21 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: long hallway and at the end of the door we 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: can see, like that garden that I had told you 23 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: about that we had. It was a big, lush garden 24 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: filled with flowers on one of the highest hills in 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: City Terrace. It's where her big sister taught her to dance. 26 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: We had like a wall. I remember she was sitting 27 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: on it. She was sitting on it, and she was 28 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: wearing a white that white hoodie that she had and 29 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: some jeans, and like there's no context behind it, you know. 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: I just I remember I looked, and I've seen her 31 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: sitting on that wall. But I do remember. It's my 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: aunt next door. She said that she saw her through 33 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: her window. That's Becky, Emory's aunt and godmother her knee. 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: She says a family member saw Emory that afternoon standing 35 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: outside of the house. My aunt said that she saw 36 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: Emory inside the fence and this guy outside the fence talking, 37 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: and then she said that next time she looked, they 38 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: were gone. She saw Emory talking to a friend. It 39 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: was reported at the time that he was a member 40 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: of a male party crew. According to Emory's mother, Emory 41 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: left to go to a friend's house and said she 42 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: would be back by seven thirty or eight pm. When 43 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 1: her mom got home from the market, Emory wasn't there. 44 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: The next morning, Emory's mom reported her missing. I remember 45 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: those copies, the fires. I remember we were walking around 46 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: putting them up. Crystal remembers they went looking for Emory 47 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: and posting flyers in the area. She remembers walking down 48 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: the street by her house. I remember we put one 49 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: on a red pull and we were just it was 50 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: an all night thing, like it was dark. I remember 51 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: it being dark. I remember being cold. We were just 52 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: going up and down the streets putting them on, and 53 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: I think I think it was the next day. I 54 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: was calling her cell phone and I remember I was 55 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: in her room and I was calling her phone, and 56 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: I think I maybe left her about twenty voicemails that day. 57 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: Crystal assumed that Emory run away because she was mad 58 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: at their brother John, And I remember I was calling 59 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: her and I was like, you could come home now, 60 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: John's not mad at you anymore. Can you come home? 61 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: From my heart? Michael Duda Podcast Network, Vice and Ellie's Studios, 62 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: This is Party Cruz The Untold Story. I'm Jenness Malca. 63 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: There are a lot of questions about what happened to 64 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: Emory that night. Where she went and why she didn't 65 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: come home. Emory Miunius's lifeless body was found nearby this 66 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: warehouse on Marosol and Olympic and Boyle Heights, a popular 67 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: area for underground parties. Emory's murder was quickly connected to 68 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: the party crew scene by the LPD and the media. 69 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: Her killing, they think she was strangled, now tied to 70 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: the world of illegal underground parties. She went to one 71 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: and never came home. Oh, this is exactly the kind 72 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: of industrial neighborhood where a rave promoter can find a 73 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: warehouse to use for a night. In fact, it was 74 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: here on Mirosol, just south of Olympic where a fourteen 75 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: year old girl was found dead. Emory's links to the 76 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: party crew world was part of why her murder got 77 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: a lot of media attention. Emory reportedly was part of 78 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: a crew girls who attended underground parties. The Vicious Ladies 79 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: are among the local party crews with their own websites 80 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: and party lines. Vicious Ladies was the name of the 81 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: party crew belonged to. They think her murder may be 82 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: connected to an underground rave party, but what evidence was 83 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: there that her murder was tied to party crews and 84 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: why is her key still unsolved. I want to understand 85 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: what happened with the investigation, what's clear, and what remains 86 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: a mystery to this day. A warning that this episode 87 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: gets graphic and talks in detail about a violent death. 88 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,679 Speaker 1: On Wednesday morning, January twenty fifth, two thousand and six, 89 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: and six days after Emory went missing, an employee of 90 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: a warehouse in boil Heights who went to go pick 91 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: up some lumber found Emory's body. She was less than 92 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: five miles away from her home. Becky got the call 93 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: with the news when she was at work. I don't 94 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: even remember. I just remembered going crazy and staircal and 95 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: the customer came and tried to call me down. But 96 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: then everybody I'll start coming to my office, and then 97 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: my supervisor wouldn't let me drive home about myself and stuff. 98 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: So my son came and picked me up, and then 99 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: that's when we went over there, and he's crazy. I mean, 100 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: it's like you're trying to think that it's a nightmare 101 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: that you're having, just can't believe it. That's when the 102 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: investigation began. I remember it so vividly because this was 103 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: one of the times where you didn't expect to be 104 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: called out on a suspicious death, especially involving a child. 105 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: This is Carrie Ricard. He's a former LPD homicide detective. 106 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: He retired in twenty thirteen after working for LPD for 107 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: over thirty five years. He's still volunteers as a reserve officer. 108 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: He started at the Holland Back stationeteen seventy nine. Most 109 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: of our homicides here gang related. Majority of them are, 110 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: you know, and the victims have either ties to gangs 111 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: or you know, maybe even we're looking at as a 112 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: suspect and a murder themselves. As a rule, you don't 113 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: get many child homicides. I met Carrie at the station 114 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: and Boil Heights. Hollenbeck serves the community surrounding Elsarino, Lincoln 115 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: Heights and Boil Heights. Carrie wore a striped long sleeve 116 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: button up with a blue tie. He rocked a mustache 117 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: and his hair was neatly combed to one side. He 118 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: also had a gun on his hip. He may be retired, 119 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: but he still looks like an old school TV detective 120 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,959 Speaker 1: to me. We met in the afternoon, and by that 121 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: time most of the officers had gone home and in 122 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 1: two thousand and six. You were one of the detectives. Yes, 123 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: I was the original lead detective on the Emory Muno's death. 124 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 1: He was the first detective to be called out to 125 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: the scene where she was found. It was midweek is 126 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: the Wednesday, to be precise, and I was at my desk. 127 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: I had the watch commander called up upstairs and told 128 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: me that the body of a young female had been 129 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: found in an abandoned warehouse area in our industrial section 130 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: of the division. When I got to the scene, you know, 131 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: I knew this was a young girl. I put her 132 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: at thirteen or fourteen years old. Emory was fourteen, just 133 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 1: a few months shy of fifteen. There was a hole 134 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: in the fence that led from where we parked on 135 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: the street and walked up the street a little bit 136 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: to the hole in the fence, through the hole in 137 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: the fence back into the loading dock. Carrie was joined 138 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: by his partner and fellow homicide detective, Joe Braciato. He's 139 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 1: also now retired after over thirty years with the LPD. 140 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: And that's where Emory's body was located. In the loading 141 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: dock area, Emory's body was lying on the concrete. She 142 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: was wearing jeans, white tennis shoes, and a white hoodie. 143 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: You just remember, I know she had like was a 144 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: Tinkerbell sweatshirt. When the corner investigator got there and one 145 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: of the first things we found was a school lunch card, 146 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: no picture on it, it had a name on it, 147 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: it was It turned out to be her card, and 148 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: so they did some background found out she had been 149 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: reported missing. She didn't have a cell phone on her 150 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: or any type of backpack or purse, so the school 151 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: lunch card helped them to identify her. And the clutter 152 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: and the loading dock area was a lot of drug 153 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: paraphernalia that we're on the ground. I remember the building 154 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: had discarded needles and it was a warehouse. The detective 155 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: set at the time had been used as a quote 156 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: grave site before. Despite all the litter and dust and 157 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: dirt around her, her clothes were very clean, even the 158 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: bottom of her white tennis shoes, So Carrie thought it 159 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: was likely that she didn't die here, that her body 160 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: was brought here after her death, maybe even by several people. 161 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: The chain link fence nearby had some holes in it 162 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: big enough for a person carrying a body, though is 163 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: awkward yeah, and you know, one can surmise things from well, 164 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: you know, how do you carry a body and get 165 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: it through a hole in a fence and not snagged 166 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: the clothing on exposed chain link wires or not wrinkle 167 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: the clothing unless you've got maybe someone helping you. At first, 168 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: the detectives had difficulty understanding what had happened to Emory. 169 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: One of the issues I had is we couldn't determine 170 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: what she died from on the scene. It wasn't immediately 171 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: clear how she had died at first glance. There was 172 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: no gunshot or blood on her body, anything that told 173 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: him what had happened to Emory or how long she 174 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: had been dead. There were visible marks around Emory's neck, 175 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: but it wasn't clear at first if they were the 176 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: cause of death or if the marks happened after her death. 177 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: And you know, at first I thought, probably would be 178 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: an overdose, and but why would why would that be 179 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: something that comes to mind? Well, when you have no 180 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: apparent cause of death, you know, when there's there's no 181 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: evidence of foul play. I mean, she was impeccably dressed, 182 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: her clothes weren't dirty. Kerry thought Emory's death might have 183 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: been an accident. We know that back in that era 184 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: that nitrous ox side was widely widely being used, and 185 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: different ways of using it too, where they could put 186 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 1: a bag over their head elastic band, well they could, 187 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: and then so they could better inhale it. I just 188 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: want to jump in and say, I've watched friends and 189 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: a lot of different people do not and I've never 190 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: seen or heard of anyone putting a bag over their 191 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: head with an elastic band and the balloons people were, Yeah, 192 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: there's all sorts of methods. So yeah, Carrie thought maybe 193 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: Emory had accidentally taken too much of something with a 194 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: friend and they had panicked and left her body there. 195 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: If we suspect foul play from the beginning, then we'll 196 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: handle it as a homicide, even if we don't call 197 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: it a homicide, such as in Emory's case. To better 198 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: understand the details of what might have happened to Emory, 199 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: we filed a public records request for the autopsy report. 200 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: The report was clinical, but there were small details about 201 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: how she was found that stuck with me. She had 202 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: her jeans bunched up at the bottom with an elastic band. 203 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: It was a style thing. When I was in high 204 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: school in the midouts rubber bands around the ankles to 205 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:13,319 Speaker 1: make her pants slimmer, DIY cuffs for jeans. Her fingers 206 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: had tandlnes like maybe rings were missing from her hand. 207 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: She had on a gold chain with a religious pendant, 208 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: the type of jewelry that's gifted by family, and she 209 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: had a pair of eyebrowt tweezers on her and the 210 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: Tinkerbelt key chain on her belt loop that matched her 211 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: Tinkerbelt hoodie. It reminded me again that she was fourteen 212 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: a teen, a child, and the autopsy would reveal that 213 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: she hadn't died from an overdose. It was a homicide. 214 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: It was difficult to say how long Emory had been 215 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: dead when she was found, but she had been strangled. 216 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: Emory has a cause of death that's listed as asphyxia 217 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: due to net compression. This is Denise Brutone that I 218 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: worked for the Coroner's office investigating pediatric deaths for fifteen years, 219 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: and prior to that, I was an emergency room nurse 220 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: at Los Angeles County Hospital. She specifically worked on deaths 221 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: involving children, which is anyone under fourteen years old. Denise 222 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: was the coroner investigator who came to the crime scene 223 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: the day that Emory was found. She's seen over twenty 224 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: five hundred cases in her career, but she immediately remembered 225 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: this case. These don't happen very often, so when you 226 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: called me, I didn't remember the year it happened, but 227 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: you called and started talking to me about it, and 228 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: I can still picture the warehouse and I can still 229 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: picture her there on the scene. Denise did a cursory 230 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: exam on the body and wrote the initial report. Denise 231 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: told us it wasn't clear what Emory had been strangled with, 232 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: but it was likely with something about the width of 233 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: a shoelace at an upward angle. So is it that 234 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: the perpetrator, her assailant, was behind her and a little 235 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: bit taller than her. That would be a reasonable thing 236 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: to conclude. She also has on a gold chain and 237 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: that chain is not disturbed, it's not broken. Denise also 238 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: pointed out that the autopsy showed no signs of struggle 239 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: from Emery, no fingernail marks, no struggling to breathe, no 240 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: other wounds that were the signs of a fight. We 241 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: have to wonder about her level of consciousness. When this 242 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: assailant kills her. As part of her work, Denise in 243 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: her colleagues took all evident samples, samples from her fingernails, 244 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: stems from her clothing, a hair clipping, and a sexual 245 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: assault kit. I don't know if it was ever run. 246 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: It would be important to know that it was run, 247 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: and that it's very important that the DNA is tested. 248 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: She wonders if any of the samples of DNA from 249 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: the crime scene were tested, whether the nail clippings actually 250 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: were tested in looking for DNA under her fingernails, and 251 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: whether the DNA that was under her fingernails was put 252 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: into Codis Codas is a database of DNA that the 253 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: FBI maintains if Emery's killer was in the system, it's 254 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: possible that running the samples would help the police identify them. 255 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: There are other marks, Like I mentioned, it looked like 256 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: there was a hickey on her chest that would have 257 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: saliva that would have DNA. Was that actually ran and tested. 258 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: We asked Joe, one of the former detectives, about the 259 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: DNA samples that were taken and what had happened with them. 260 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: I know she had possible evidence underneath their fingernails. So 261 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: that was one of the requests that I had made 262 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: that DNA to be tested, but unfortunately I didn't come 263 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 1: up with a suspect at the time the amount of 264 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: DNA that they had, they were unable to identify anyone 265 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: with that amount. We reached out to LPD about any 266 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: DNA evidence in her case and they wouldn't share anything 267 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: about the investigation. But later on a detective supervisor for 268 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: the cold case unit told us that any DNA evidence 269 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: that was taken had been put into CODIS, the national 270 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: database for DNA, but there hadn't yet been a match. 271 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 1: I asked Denise, the corner investigator, what does she think happened? 272 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 1: This is something that we've been just asking everyone who 273 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: has touched the case in some way if they personally 274 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: have a theory based on the outopsy or the evidence 275 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: to how she might have died. A young teenager is 276 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: a vulnerable victim. It just seems that she was incapacitated 277 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 1: in some way when this attack occurs, because she doesn't 278 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: have the typical injuries that you would see. All I 279 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: need for sure at this point was that Emory, a 280 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: fourteen year old girl, was strangled to death, who killed 281 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: her and where and why we don't know, but Emory's 282 00:19:37,920 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: friends and family have theories. That's after the break To 283 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: this day, Emory's family is looking for answers. Little is 284 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: known about the evening she disappeared, so there are a 285 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: lot of theories coming from family, friends, anyone close to 286 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: the case, and given how few answers the family has 287 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: gotten from the police, I think it's important to look 288 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: at these theories to try and understand what was happening 289 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: in Emory's world around the time she was killed. The 290 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: family members we spoke to didn't really know much about 291 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: the party cruisine, but they did know about her circle 292 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:42,479 Speaker 1: of friends, which at times overlapped because many were miners 293 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: at the time. We're not using the names of the 294 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: people that family and friends have talked about. One of 295 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: the theories, and for information that we had at the time, 296 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: somebody said that they thought her boyfriend. This is Becky again, 297 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: Emory's aunt. She's talking about one of Emery's old boyfriends, 298 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: who we're going to call R. A friend said that 299 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: he was in a party care at the time. R 300 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: is currently serving an almost thirty five years sentence at 301 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: Cincinnella State Prison for attempted second degree murderer with an 302 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: enhancement for discharge of a firearm because they saw her 303 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: fighting one time with him on the steps of his house, 304 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: all outside steps, and that he pushed her. And then 305 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: I verified with my sister and she said, yeah, she 306 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: did come home one day with a scrape on her 307 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: leg and a bruise on her arm. So then when 308 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: she passed, we were thinking, well, maybe that wasn't the 309 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: first time that he did it, and who knows, maybe 310 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: by accident it happened that was one of them. The 311 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: other one that I think is more believable to me 312 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: is those four girls. Another thing that came up was 313 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: the possibility that her dad had to do with a 314 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: fight with her friends from a previous middle school. Some 315 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: of those friends later joined the party. Creusne that at 316 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: one time there were her friends and then I don't 317 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: know what happened, but the DA didn't like her. I 318 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 1: don't know why, you know, and I don't know the 319 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: whole story, but they came over and they call her name, 320 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: and so my mom came out there and Mary asked 321 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: her to go out there. My mom saw a movement 322 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: behind a park car, so my mom went out of 323 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: the gate to look and she saw two more girls 324 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: behind this car. Total was four, two of them long 325 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: with a back. Her mom ended up transferring Emory to 326 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 1: a different school, But what we heard Becky and others 327 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: talk most about was that her dad had something to 328 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: do with her friend's ex boyfriend who were going to 329 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: call us that between them there had been some tense moments. 330 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: Becky heard a story that Emory had introduced her friend 331 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: to a new guy at a party and the x 332 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: S had found out, and he called Emory and told 333 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: her that she had no business battling between them two. 334 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: Emory was going to be sorry that she did this. 335 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: We've tried to get in contact with Emory's friend who 336 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: used to date us. We called, texted, written emails, commented 337 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: on social media posts, reached out to her in various 338 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: ways over the course of months. While we believed she 339 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: saw our messages, she never responded to us. This friend 340 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: was also the person that Emory said she was going 341 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: to visit on the evening she disappeared, and according to 342 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: another friend, she may have been a member of the 343 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: Vicious Ladies, Emory's party crew. We've also tried to find 344 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: and reach out to s the friend's ex boyfriend, but 345 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: we haven't gotten any responses to our calls and emails, 346 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: and we haven't been able to confirm if he was 347 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: in a party crew. We also emailed Emory's old boyfriend 348 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:12,959 Speaker 1: are in prison. He did not respond. It's hard to 349 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: hear about all these difficult relationships and Emory's life, and 350 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: while some of the details are scary, none of the 351 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: stories or rumors are by any means evidence of murder. 352 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: One thing that Emory's family and the LAPD agree on 353 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 1: is that whoever killed Emory was likely someone who knew her. 354 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: This is Carrie Ricard, the former detective again. To meticulously 355 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: take someone somewhere, and it's kind of almost not posing them, 356 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: but to gingerly handle them, meticulously place them, and that's 357 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: kind of like handling them with a degree of respect, 358 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: and a stranger wouldn't do that, but someone with maybe 359 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 1: some remorse might. According to Kerry, there won't be any 360 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: answers on our case without someone new coming forward with information. 361 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: Witnesses is going to be the primary solution factor in 362 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: this case. This is not a case that's scientifically going 363 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: to be solved without In the absence of witnesses, it's 364 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: not going to happen. I'm curious, what do you want 365 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: people to know about this case. I would like them 366 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: to know that if people think the police don't care, 367 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: they won't care. That's why I mentioned a lot of 368 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: the resources that went into the investigation from the start. 369 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 1: Kerry says, the entire homicide squad was actually on duty 370 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: that day and so a lot of its colleagues were 371 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: able to go to the crime scene. It's almost unheard of. 372 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,360 Speaker 1: They have five homicide detectives that one homicide scene when 373 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: you're not even sure it's a homicide. You know, it's 374 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 1: always at the ready for just the right tip to 375 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: come in and your listeners, you know, I would want 376 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: them to know that that just remember the three words 377 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: Central Bureau Homicide. They're the ones that have the case. 378 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, Hollenbeck Community Police Station closed down their 379 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: homicide unit and all of their cases were sent to 380 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: Central Bureau. Central Bureau now handles homicides across a large 381 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: part of eastern Los Angeles like downtown La MacArthur Park, 382 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: Foil Heights, and Eagle Rock. They are the ones that 383 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: now have Emory's case. And because there are a few 384 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: leads on it right now. It's been pulled off the shelf. 385 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 1: About five months after we started calling LAPD and looking 386 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 1: into her unsolved case, we found out that Emory's case 387 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: was being worked on again with new detectives, and it 388 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: has a two detectives that actually are a signed it 389 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: and are working on it. But it can easily get 390 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 1: cold again. The LAPD told us in an email that 391 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: while it is a cold case because of its age, 392 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: it's currently being worked on as fresh. They told us 393 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: this was because there was new information provided, but they 394 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: didn't tell us what the information is, and they told 395 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: us they don't talk to the media during a fresh investigation. 396 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: Carrie was only on the case for about three months 397 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: before his assignment changed, but he says they had already 398 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: done a ton of talking to people. I think before 399 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: I left we were up too close to thirty interviews 400 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: and then and things were just getting started on it. 401 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: So I would assume, my gotcha, it's got to be 402 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: sixty or more people that have been spoken. According to Becky, 403 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: there have been at least seven different detectives that have 404 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: been put on Emory's case since two thousand and six, 405 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: as it's been shuffled around whether or not this fresh 406 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: investigation will mean any new information for the family, We 407 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: don't know. There remains a lot unknown about what happened 408 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: to Emory, including whether her death was directly tied to 409 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: the party crew scene. Even the detectives we spoke to 410 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 1: couldn't pin down any concrete connection. We don't even know 411 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: really where the crime scene is. We're calling the crime 412 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: scene where the body was found. And when we talk 413 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 1: about time of death, if one was to look at 414 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: the death report, it would be you know, January twenty 415 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: fifty nine o'clock. Well, no, she didn't die then. We 416 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: don't know what time she died. I think we couldn't 417 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: even verify that she even went to a rape party 418 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: that night. We had conflicting information on that. So did 419 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: she go or didn't she go? You know, she was 420 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: telling people that she was going to go, but and 421 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: when we never came up with a location, we just 422 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: know it wasn't It wasn't that location where she was found. 423 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: We're not sure who Emory was telling that she was 424 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: going to a party. Nobody we interviewed, friends or family 425 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: told us that she was going to one that night. 426 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: When Emory was found she was wearing a Tingerbell hoodie 427 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: and tennis shoes. Close she was found with with the 428 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: close she went missing with, and it was nothing party 429 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: is that she would actually wear to be at a party, 430 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: especially if there was a party that her party crew 431 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: was throwing. Brian Garcia, also known as Spooky, dated Emory. 432 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: He wasn't in the party crew scene, but he attended 433 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: flyer parties and he knew the Vicious Ladies. Their party 434 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: crew was a whole female party crew at the time, 435 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: so they, you know, it was always like trying to 436 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: compete and see who looked better, So they always wanted 437 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: to be out there and just looked good, you know. 438 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: Brian met Emory on an old school party line, the 439 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: kind were you dial a number and get connected with 440 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: teams from all over, just random people. Before all this 441 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: Instagram MySpace thing, there used to be a party line 442 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: and Emory happened to be at one of her friend's house. 443 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: The phone was handed over to her. We had a conversation, 444 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: the vibe was great. We kicked it off and you know, 445 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: we exchanged numbers. He has a picture of the m 446 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: chuck e cheese when they went for her birthday. Their 447 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: faces are smoshed against each other. Pookie has his tongue out, 448 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: Emory's eyes big and dark even in a black and 449 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: white photo. Pooky couldn't believe the response when she disappeared 450 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: and was found murdered. I was very upset at the 451 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: media and LAPD because the coverage was based of her 452 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: being part of a party crew and a party goer. 453 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: And I guess they based it off because of where 454 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: she was found, being in an abandoned warehouse on Boil 455 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: Heights in fact, to be based it off, oh you know, 456 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: she was at a flier party being a minor, you know, 457 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: and probably at a point overdosed in some type of 458 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: drugs at whatnot. It was just not right. It wasn't. 459 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: She wasn't at this party. But the party crewsine became 460 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: cemented as part of her public image. They're advertised not 461 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: only through the flyers being passed out at schools, but 462 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: they are all also advertised on the MySpace dot com. 463 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: That's the former detective speaking at a two thousand and 464 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: seven press conference for Emory's case. Police say the rave 465 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: was posted on the popular MySpace website. In a two 466 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: thousand and six press release by LAPD about Emory's case, 467 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: they meet it a point to include the line quote 468 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: her death may be related to underground rave parties, which 469 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: are held in local abandoned warehouses common to the area 470 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: and advertised on MySpace dot com. The party scene well 471 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: was thrown out there, and I know that created a 472 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: lot of Internet chatter, but LA then didn't really helped 473 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: haste too much. This is Joe Braciato today. When I 474 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: asked him about his views of party crews sixteen years later, 475 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: he said, I mean they were in my opinion, they 476 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: were basically harmless. They were victims. In our interview, he 477 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: told me they even checked Emory's MySpace to look for 478 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: any online messages related to partying, but it didn't help 479 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: them get any closer to who killed her. And in 480 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: our interview with Kerrie Ricard, the other detective we spoke to, 481 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: he says he didn't see any evidence of a recent 482 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: party at the abandoned warehouse. That particular building wasn't too 483 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: conducive to a rape party. There's just too much debris 484 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: around where you could hurt yourself or step on something. 485 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: You know, you need a little bit more of a space. 486 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: But still that was the one line of information that 487 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: would get added to any news reports about her by 488 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: LPD and by reporters that our death might have been 489 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: related to rape or underground parties, illegal rave party, illegal 490 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: rave party, underground parties, I flyer parties, party crews, flyer parties, 491 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 1: underground flyer party, flyer parties, party cruiser, underground party. Like 492 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: the scene was the Boogeyman or some kind of monster 493 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: looming in the dark. This is spooky again. These party 494 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: crews would go really hard at these parties to compete 495 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: to those the best parties, become a popular party crew, 496 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: and I guess game across to being put out of 497 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: the gang because people started franking people and some party 498 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: boards wouldn't go to certain events because they were scared 499 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: that this party crew was going to show up, you know, 500 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: stuff like that. But it was definitely not a game. Gangs, 501 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: gang adjacent illegal parties, kids drinking. That's how the party 502 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,959 Speaker 1: crewsine came across in the media. I know it sounds bad. 503 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes gang members did go to parties and there were 504 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: a lot of people under twenty one drinking. People did 505 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: stupid things, and sometimes people got hurt. But there was 506 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: another side of the party creusine, but I feel was ignored, 507 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: misunderstood and rarely talked about. That it wasn't just any 508 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: teens gone wild party. It was a whole world built 509 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: intentionally for us by us. From how we designed our logos. 510 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: Our logo was a play with money, but it was 511 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: smoking a blunt. It was like a south Park beam 512 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,959 Speaker 1: like the link characters from South Park, like dressing blue 513 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: wood glasses, to how we secured the spot. The parties 514 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: were always like somebody's grandma's backyard. Hey, shout out to 515 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: the grandma's at pas for allowing us to party on 516 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,919 Speaker 1: our spots for like one hundred and fifty bucks. And 517 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: the economics of party that was the majority of the 518 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: money that was being made in any Flyer party was 519 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: through the nas. Did our goals so like just do 520 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: like three to four, three to five racks? That's next time. 521 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,959 Speaker 1: This episode was written, reported, and hosted by me Ja. 522 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: Our show is produced and reported by Sofia Pelissa car 523 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 1: Victoria Lejandro, and Kyle Chang, and edited by Antonia Shido. 524 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: Additional editing by Annie Abelis, fact checking by Nadia Alista, 525 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: Sound design and original music composition by Kyle Murdock. Our 526 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 1: supervising producer is Janet Lee. Art by Julie Ruiz and 527 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 1: Victua Collon. Our executive producer from Vice Audio is Kate Osbourne. 528 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: Our executive producers from Elias Studios are Antonia Seedhivo and leog. 529 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: Our Vice President of Podcasts from Elias Studios is China 530 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: Naomi Krocomo. Special thanks to the UCLA Department of Communication 531 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: Archives for access to their news collections. Party Cruise. The 532 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 1: Untold Story is a production of Elias Studios and Vice 533 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: Audio in partnership with Ihearts Michael Buddha podcast Network. For 534 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: more podcasts, listen to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 535 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: wherever you listen to your favorite shows, and Hey, were 536 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,880 Speaker 1: you and a party crew? 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