Speaker 1: Pushkin, Hey, Dana, Chuck Chuck the Sarah bal Blue Last
Speaker 1: Hill Shaff Station. Hey just call on you touching base
Speaker 1: a backup work es since you text, that's Salvador Bissarah
Speaker 1: goes by Chuck. He's the new captain of Lost Hill Station.
Speaker 1: The station has been in turmoil since Router was arrested.
Speaker 1: Scandal after scandal. Remember when Kobe Bryant's helicopter crashed in
Speaker 1: the Calabasas Hills. Well County Sheriff's deputies are facing discipline
Speaker 1: now for taking and sharing graphic photos at the scene
Speaker 1: of the helicopter crash that killed nine people, including Kobe
Speaker 1: Bryant eight deputies. According to media reports, some of those
Speaker 1: deputies taking and sharing photos were from Lost Hills. I've
Speaker 1: been trying to get in with the leadership at the
Speaker 1: station ever since I heard about the murder in the park.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just go to the station and stare at
Speaker 1: the mirrored glass behind the unattended reception desk. On the
Speaker 1: other side lie the answers to everything that doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense about this case. But all I can see is
Speaker 1: myself reflected back at me. It's the perfect metaphor for
Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department. They see out, but you can't see in.
Speaker 1: But the weird thing about Captain Bassarah, he's friendly. This
Speaker 1: guy calls me, I think you've been keeping up with
Speaker 1: the politics here. Remember I was the act captain here
Speaker 1: and they got replaced and they got sent back. He's nice,
Speaker 1: he wants to help. You're getting stonewalled, he tells me cheerfully.
Speaker 1: When you're getting stonewalled, you know you're onto a good story.
Speaker 1: Something obviously went wrong at Lost Hill Station. There was
Speaker 1: apparently a shooter on the loose and Malibu for over
Speaker 1: a year and a half, and it was kept secret.
Speaker 1: Not only that the alleged shooter hated the Lost Hills cops,
Speaker 1: had frequent contact with law enforcement and lived in the
Speaker 1: hills behind the station. And Sergeant Wright, who gave me
Speaker 1: the helicopter tour, He and Lieutenant Royal, the two Lost
Speaker 1: Hills deputies who argued there was a serial sniper would
Speaker 1: be serial killer in Malibu and then found him. They're
Speaker 1: under investigation what went wrong. Sarah's newly in charge. He
Speaker 1: wasn't there for all the mess, but he says he
Speaker 1: really really wants me to find out the truth. He
Speaker 1: wishes he could tell me, but he can. He'd get fired,
Speaker 1: at a minimum, possibly charged. The truth he keeps promising
Speaker 1: me is a bombshell. It's crazy crazy, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: It'll make a good movie or a good book, or
Speaker 1: so he should get a chapter in it. Anyways, call
Speaker 1: me when you get a chance. I'll be in the
Speaker 1: rest of the week. Okay, by bye, I think I
Speaker 1: might be in. I'm Dana Goodyear and this is Lost Hills,
Speaker 1: episode six, One More Day in Paradise. In twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: and twenty seventeen, there was a series of near miss
Speaker 1: shootings in and around Malibu Creek State Park, than nothing
Speaker 1: for eleven months. In the summer of twenty eighteen, there
Speaker 1: was a sixth attack another near miss. It involved a
Speaker 1: white tesla being driven by a man named Ian Kincaid.
Speaker 1: The date was June eighteenth, four days before Tristan Boudett
Speaker 1: was killed. Today, I'm at Ian's house at the top
Speaker 1: of a twisty road in the Malibu Hills. Standing in
Speaker 1: front of his garage, he pulls the car out. The
Speaker 1: white hood has a single piece of white electrical tape
Speaker 1: right between the headlights. He peels it away, revealing a
Speaker 1: deep gash. Wow, yeah, let me understand why I don't
Speaker 1: want my kids to see it. So I was going
Speaker 1: about sixty miles an hour, sixty five or something like
Speaker 1: that when I pulled over, But beforehand, I'd been going
Speaker 1: considerably faster. Ian works as a gaffer in Hollywood, which
Speaker 1: means it's his job to light the sets. He's worked
Speaker 1: on six Quentin Tarantino movies, and on the day we're
Speaker 1: talking about, he was headed to the set of Once
Speaker 1: Upon a Time in Hollywood. He wanted to get there
Speaker 1: by six am. Let me up the hood, so he
Speaker 1: got up in the dark and left his home. He
Speaker 1: took Malibu Canyon Road. I was driving through the canyon
Speaker 1: about four twenty and I was driving pretty fast. Sometimes
Speaker 1: in the morning, i'd drive excess of speed, and I thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to get there too early.
Speaker 1: I don't need to speed, So I slowed down and
Speaker 1: within a minute was when the bullet hit my car.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, what's that sound? Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like it was like I thought, did I leave a
Speaker 1: coffee cup on my roof again? And was at what
Speaker 1: that was rattling? Or I thought I looked down my
Speaker 1: tea cup was right there, and I thought, well, maybe
Speaker 1: it was an acorn because I was driving near some
Speaker 1: oak trees and just you know, these are just thoughts
Speaker 1: at four o'clock in the morning, I wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: solve any mysteries. And then within i'd say ten seconds,
Speaker 1: maybe the the alarm started going off. So I pulled
Speaker 1: over and got out of the car, and it was
Speaker 1: pitch dark, no other traffic, and I slammed the right
Speaker 1: I pulled over right there at the at the Hindu temple.
Speaker 1: The bullet went in the hood, passed through the front
Speaker 1: trunk and out the fender. You can see it wouldn't
Speaker 1: take too much of a change in speed for that
Speaker 1: to gone in elsewhere. You know, his height wasn't too
Speaker 1: far off, you know, if he was indeed aiming at me.
Speaker 1: I tesked the hole with my pinky. It has a
Speaker 1: jagged edge. I can feel how close a call that was,
Speaker 1: how the bullets so easily could have hit him. So
Speaker 1: I went through there. They've replaced this piece. I think
Speaker 1: it came through here and then out the fender from
Speaker 1: from about here, and they said it might have bounced
Speaker 1: off the tire. After work, Ian says he stopped by
Speaker 1: Lost Hill station. He remembers the deputy who took the
Speaker 1: report didn't appear too worried, so she took a picture,
Speaker 1: and she handed me a slip of paper with a
Speaker 1: number one and said, this is your crime report if
Speaker 1: you ever need it. Okay, And they weren't concerned. There
Speaker 1: was no nobody expressing any kind of serious interest in it.
Speaker 1: For the next few days, he tells me, he felt
Speaker 1: strange and avoided Malibu Canyon. When he couldn't avoid the road,
Speaker 1: he ruminated where had that shot come from, who had
Speaker 1: fired it, and why. Then four days later, on June
Speaker 1: twenty second, Bodat was killed. I remember driving through Malbi
Speaker 1: Canyon seeing a lot of cops and a fenced off area,
Speaker 1: and you know, if something was going on, and I
Speaker 1: got to work and uh, and I really don't recall
Speaker 1: when I learned, but they learned that somebody had been
Speaker 1: murdered in the campground. I thought, wow, that's that's bizarre. Suddenly,
Speaker 1: he says, the cops were all over him. My phone
Speaker 1: just lit up, and within I been in a half
Speaker 1: an hour, I probably got twenty calls from sheriffs, from LPD,
Speaker 1: from Lost hills, from rangers, from newspapers, from reporters, and
Speaker 1: I just what is this. They summoned him back to
Speaker 1: Lost Hill station, where a group of deputies quickly ushered
Speaker 1: him around the side. So I drove around the back
Speaker 1: and there must have been fifteen guys in uniform that
Speaker 1: came up, and there were a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: were just like volunteer kind of guys wearing sheriff's deputy
Speaker 1: sheriff's stuff. There was a sargeantie, remember, and there was
Speaker 1: a detective and they had a handful of dowels and
Speaker 1: they have different diameter, and they put the dowels into
Speaker 1: the hole. And that was Sergeant Twoey Wright and his
Speaker 1: search and rescue team. Sergeant Wright saw this shooting as
Speaker 1: another one of the near misses and believed that whoever
Speaker 1: had done it had also likely killed Tristan Boudet. They
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out the trajectory of the bullet.
Speaker 1: The trajectory was important investigating the BMW shooting. Sergeant Wright
Speaker 1: had found that hill the suspected shooting mound on the
Speaker 1: park side of the canyon road. He was wondering if
Speaker 1: whoever shot the test had fired from the same elevated spot,
Speaker 1: and later, after the Woolsey fire had burned a bunch
Speaker 1: of brush away, he went back and searched there and
Speaker 1: found nine millimeter casings. But back in June twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: Ian says, the deputies were being secretive by what I gathered.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to tell me anything. They were trying
Speaker 1: to usher me away from the car most of the
Speaker 1: time and have somebody else asked me questions while they
Speaker 1: were putting the dolls in and stuff. But I was
Speaker 1: Ian says he did hear one thing loud and clear,
Speaker 1: and it confused him in the months ahead, when he,
Speaker 1: like everyone else in Malibu, kept hearing the Sheriff's departments
Speaker 1: say there was no connection, no relation, no link among
Speaker 1: all these violent crimes. He overheard Sergeant Wright and the
Speaker 1: deputies say that he Ian was the eighth victim in
Speaker 1: an ongoing shooting spree that had just turned deadly. I
Speaker 1: believed they said that I was number eight, and I thought,
Speaker 1: what's that mean? When I might number eight? And then
Speaker 1: a little later they said that is it Tristan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that he was number nine. This was the thinking of
Speaker 1: a faction inside Lost Hill Station. They didn't yet know
Speaker 1: who the canyon shooter was, but they believed that he
Speaker 1: was out there for a year and a half. They'd
Speaker 1: been telling the department, but the department wouldn't listen. The
Speaker 1: Tesla shooting had been the Sheriff's Department's last chance to
Speaker 1: intervene before the murder, and they missed. Captain Bissarah is
Speaker 1: inviting me to come and see him at Lost Hill Station. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course I want to come. It'll be my first
Speaker 1: time behind the mirrored glass. He's a generous host. He
Speaker 1: takes me around to meet the detectives. He takes me
Speaker 1: outside to the parking lot so I can see the helipad.
Speaker 1: There's a pile of scat right on the seal mountain Lion.
Speaker 1: Maybe I look around at the dry, empty hills over
Speaker 1: the ridge. Is that steep slope where Rowda made his camp?
Speaker 1: How did it take them so long to find him?
Speaker 1: Captain Bissarah is babbling on about how cops hate journalists.
Speaker 1: How if I'm ever going to find out what I
Speaker 1: want to know about this investigation, I'm going to need
Speaker 1: to build some trust. He thinks I should meet as
Speaker 1: many deputies as possible, go out with them, see Malibu
Speaker 1: through their eyes. He suggests, I going to ride along
Speaker 1: with the beach team. Okay. Rowda told me in a
Speaker 1: letter that he hasn't been to Malibu's beaches in years,
Speaker 1: since the mid two thousands, but it's worth a try.
Speaker 1: So I spend a morning weaving in and out of
Speaker 1: sunbathers on a quad. There was an incident regarding paparazzi's
Speaker 1: in Matthew McConaughey near a paradise cove, and there was
Speaker 1: an incident where a paparazzi was assaulted and his property
Speaker 1: was vandalized, thrown in the water, his camera. And then
Speaker 1: we had some pirates guys that were dressed in pirate
Speaker 1: outfits that were at zooma seven in the parking lot
Speaker 1: that were smoking marijuana in their car. They said they
Speaker 1: were in a band, so they've dressed like fires. There's
Speaker 1: smoke at weed in their car. That was back when weeds.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're still not supposed to smoke in public,
Speaker 1: but it was more of a big deal back then.
Speaker 1: This job's fun because you just drive around and watch everything.
Speaker 1: M M, it's Bassarah. He tells me he's arranged today
Speaker 1: with Malibu Search and Rescue Sergeant Toy rights old team.
Speaker 1: I head back to the station and climb into a
Speaker 1: Search and rescue SUV. Search and Rescue played a pivotal
Speaker 1: role in the route investigation. They found a lot of
Speaker 1: evidence and assisted in the capture operation. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to get on their radar for months, so UM for
Speaker 1: the team. We drive around for hours looking at the
Speaker 1: beautiful ocean views. The guys tell me some stories. A
Speaker 1: gentleman called the sheriff station and thought, there's a woman
Speaker 1: being attacked on a trail. This is Mark Hollander, a
Speaker 1: medical officer was Search and Rescue was He was wondering
Speaker 1: if she was being beaten or raped. Was very concerned.
Speaker 1: We came out there, did a big search, found no
Speaker 1: evidence of anybody on the trail, any evidence of a
Speaker 1: woman that was attacked. Um. One of our team members said,
Speaker 1: you know, I believe that when mountain lions are in heat,
Speaker 1: they put out a sound very similar to a woman screaming.
Speaker 1: So he went onto Google and was able to get
Speaker 1: the recording of this sound, which does sound like a
Speaker 1: woman screaming for help, actually saying help, help, help type
Speaker 1: thing very similar. He's not wrong, this is a recording
Speaker 1: I found, so we as a fall if we went
Speaker 1: to the gentleman's house who reported it, and played that
Speaker 1: tape for him and said, is this what you heard
Speaker 1: that night? And he goes, oh my god, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the exact sound I heard. Did you find did you
Speaker 1: find the woman? Did she? Ohsh okay? We said, actually know.
Speaker 1: The sound you're hearing is a malon lion and heat.
Speaker 1: It's a good story, but they're not telling me the story.
Speaker 1: Did you get what you needed? Basarah asks, totally. I lie.
Speaker 1: I've been at this for weeks, driving all over Malibu,
Speaker 1: wasting time, getting the run around, looking out the passenger
Speaker 1: side window, watching the stone walls stream past. Then I
Speaker 1: get a number for a retired Lostills detective named JT. Manuel,
Speaker 1: and he agrees to meet me at a park about
Speaker 1: five miles from the station. He knows all about Lieutenant Royal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's very intelligent, extremely intelligent mentally and his never give
Speaker 1: up at ititude. I mean, he's relentless. He knows Sergeant
Speaker 1: Right too well. Two, he's a hunter, so he's a
Speaker 1: good tracker, and he worked narcotics wherever. He's a very
Speaker 1: smart guy. Detective Manuel is a big guy with blue
Speaker 1: eyes and a Steelers baseball cap. We sit down on
Speaker 1: a bench by the playground. You know, a lot of stills.
Speaker 1: It's different that way, where you got to work a
Speaker 1: lot harder to find the bad guys because they're not
Speaker 1: all over the place and the crime rates usually are
Speaker 1: not that high in this area, so you've got a
Speaker 1: kind of be a hard worker to get things accomplish.
Speaker 1: He was a detective at Lost Hill Station for twenty
Speaker 1: five years. He reported directly to Lieutenant Royal. He heard
Speaker 1: about near Missus one through three, the early shootings in
Speaker 1: Malibu Creek State Park, from Lieutenant Royal. Lieutenant Royal's very
Speaker 1: hands on supervisor, so he, you know, he made sure
Speaker 1: we were briefed about it. And then near Missus four
Speaker 1: and five happened on the Canyon Road. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of us believed there was a pattern between three
Speaker 1: and four. Definitely. By five, definitely we knew we had
Speaker 1: a shooter out there. Lieutenant Royal and his detective started
Speaker 1: chasing down everything, even though, as Sergeant Wright told me,
Speaker 1: his superiors in the department weren't giving him much support.
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Royal was looking for a pattern and looking at
Speaker 1: people in the area, and we were all going off
Speaker 1: of leads or suspicions and everything else. He was starting
Speaker 1: to develop potential suspect names, potential people of interest who
Speaker 1: may have been somewhat radical, radical behavior and all that.
Speaker 1: So we were definitely looking at different individuals possibly possibly
Speaker 1: could be an area. They were looking for someone they
Speaker 1: just didn't know who. It's very hard to find people
Speaker 1: in the hills. There's all kinds of people living in
Speaker 1: the hills that you don't know about that you stumble
Speaker 1: across or you get a phone call on, and it
Speaker 1: truly is if you're looking for one individual without a
Speaker 1: lot of go on, it can be like a needle
Speaker 1: in a haystack. We did not have a lot of leads.
Speaker 1: I asked him if they were starting to develop a
Speaker 1: psychological profile. Yeah. I just thought the person was definitely
Speaker 1: somebody disturbed who had some kind of anger towards the
Speaker 1: public at large. Did you start to think at any
Speaker 1: point that maybe the anger was toward law enforcement personally?
Speaker 1: That crossed my mind, Yes, But I think more more
Speaker 1: than anything, I thought this guy was just seriously out
Speaker 1: to hurt somebody, lone wolf type of guy. Did Routa's
Speaker 1: name come up at that point. I think with Routa,
Speaker 1: I think that came up probably after they saw the
Speaker 1: tape with him burglarized and the gun. This conversation has
Speaker 1: definitely helped me understand how and when Anthony Rowda became
Speaker 1: a suspect. But I wonder if he can speak to
Speaker 1: the other thing that's puzzling me, the investor instigation into
Speaker 1: Sergeant Right and Lieutenant Royal. I don't think it was fair.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was right, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it was warranted. Two deputies or two people from Lost Tills,
Speaker 1: which is commonly thought of as a slow station, went
Speaker 1: out and basically found a murderer and stayed persistent and
Speaker 1: collected some important evidence. And I don't know if personally
Speaker 1: that rubbed somebody the wrong way or they felt like
Speaker 1: it made him look bad. But I can't really give
Speaker 1: an answer to the motives of it. But it just,
Speaker 1: like I said, neither one of them deserved to be punished.
Speaker 1: They deserved to be rewarded. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people were thinking that these two guys got screwed for
Speaker 1: working on working extremely hard, and like I said, it
Speaker 1: just did not make sense. So according to Detective Manuel.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that they did something wrong, it was politics.
Speaker 1: But who did they piss off? Who is that powerful?
Speaker 1: I make a plan to visit CC Woods. She knows
Speaker 1: a ton about the Sheriff's department and is leaser focused
Speaker 1: on Lost Hills. All this stuff, the exile of Sergeant
Speaker 1: Wright and Lieutenant Royal, the investigations into their police work,
Speaker 1: It all happened under the leadership of her friend, Sheriff
Speaker 1: Alex Vieneueva. Cecie gives me directions to a fifteen million
Speaker 1: dollar Malibu beach house. It belongs to another friend of hers.
Speaker 1: I drive up to find her in the garage doing
Speaker 1: her laundry because it's eight million degrees two miles up
Speaker 1: the canyon, and I didn't want you guys to melt.
Speaker 1: And I'm always here. Actually this is I literally come here,
Speaker 1: hang out with my girlfriend. I do my laundry in luxury,
Speaker 1: and I work swear work. We walk inside and the
Speaker 1: ocean fills every window. There's a pool, a gym, a
Speaker 1: massive tank filled with rare jellyfish. We sit down in
Speaker 1: the private movie theater and she launches right into a
Speaker 1: discussion of Sheriff Vienneueva so my relationship with Alex okay,
Speaker 1: she's crazy about him. When his retriever died, she posted
Speaker 1: a picture of him, his wife, Vivian, and the dog.
Speaker 1: I love you, she wrote. She says there's a lot
Speaker 1: of speculation about her closeness to Sheriff fian Aueva. You know,
Speaker 1: it started professionally when you're in a high profile situation,
Speaker 1: which with me started with the Malibu Creek State Park shootings,
Speaker 1: and that just kind of put my name all over
Speaker 1: the world and it still continues to. So when you
Speaker 1: form a relationship with somebody professionally during a very excuse me,
Speaker 1: during a very profound life changing time, so the people
Speaker 1: who are meant to stay in your life will stay,
Speaker 1: and the people who are not meant to stay in
Speaker 1: your life are not going to. WHOA. This conversation is
Speaker 1: getting weirder by the minute. I think they just look
Speaker 1: at me because of this cute little blonde thing, you know,
Speaker 1: this mouthy, little big boob blonde thing, and they think
Speaker 1: that like that's enough that to sway the Sheriff's like opinion,
Speaker 1: which is bullshit. And it's like, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to protect my ass too by not allowing people to
Speaker 1: think that I would ever use my sexuality to get somewhere,
Speaker 1: because I don't. I use facts, facts, truth, data, whatever.
Speaker 1: So anytime Ceci says, Sheriffian Aueva is doing exactly what
Speaker 1: she wants, cleaning house at Lost Tails station. Holy shit, Okay,
Speaker 1: good Lost Tales and bad Lost Sails. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the bad Lost Tails. Bad Lost Tails has been around
Speaker 1: for a very long time. That dark cloud just hung
Speaker 1: right over that station. You want to talk about continuing
Speaker 1: the rogue cop mentality, That's what was happening at that department.
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, a captain she really disliked had taken
Speaker 1: over at Lost Hills. At this point, I'm really fucking
Speaker 1: sick and tired of that househole, Okay and everybody else.
Speaker 1: He's a cock blocker over there. She wanted Sheriff Vienneueva
Speaker 1: to get rid of him, and she says she made
Speaker 1: it clear she would send Vienneueva pictures of the captain.
Speaker 1: I would draw a red circle around his head. It
Speaker 1: bexed through. I couldn't help myself. I'm like, I want
Speaker 1: that fucker. God. The guy she's talking about was captain
Speaker 1: at the time of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, so
Speaker 1: that wasn't good. And CC was upset about a sexual
Speaker 1: assault investigation where the victim was a college student in Malibu,
Speaker 1: so she pushed to get the captain canned and then
Speaker 1: for Chuck Bassarah to get his job, which he did.
Speaker 1: From what I heard rumor on the eighth floor is
Speaker 1: that and Alex did that. Every captain in the department
Speaker 1: crossed their legs and protected their man. CC clearly finds
Speaker 1: this all exhilarating. So now as soon as that happen,
Speaker 1: like two months later, one of the deputies comes up
Speaker 1: to me. He's like, oh, hey, CC, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: You know, I just wanted you to know that, like
Speaker 1: at least half the station is scared to death of you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that means half the station's not doing their job, Okay,
Speaker 1: So you let them know. If I catch them, I
Speaker 1: will put them on blast. Okay, whether it's an article
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, I'm going to make sure all
Speaker 1: the right people know. So they should be scared of
Speaker 1: a watchdog. They should be. She says she's looking out
Speaker 1: for sheriff in a way of his best interests and
Speaker 1: going to war with his enemies. He's not a fan
Speaker 1: of these people who are making the department look bad.
Speaker 1: Who is she talking about? I'm going to say Royal
Speaker 1: and right or not in his on his good boy list.
Speaker 1: You know, I may not. I really don't. There are
Speaker 1: some ten thousand deputies in the LA Sheriff's Department. How
Speaker 1: would Alex Vieneueva even be aware of two former Malibu cops.
Speaker 1: Detective Manuel said there were some politics. Did Sergeant Wright
Speaker 1: and Lieutenant Royal somehow piss off the sheriff or did
Speaker 1: they piss off CC? Or These things now one and
Speaker 1: the same. But I'm no different than an activist who
Speaker 1: uses my platform to affect change. So that's what I do.
Speaker 1: And because Malibu is so well known, Alex knows that
Speaker 1: basically if we fart over here, it's gonna make global news. Okay,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, she's got a new article in the works.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a bombshell. Cecie checks the time
Speaker 1: she's got to go. I'm gonna go see Vivian Vienneueva.
Speaker 1: So there's like a dispatcher's lunch over at um Dukes.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go meet with those guys anyway, She's
Speaker 1: on her way to a lunch with Viennueva's wife, Vivian
Speaker 1: at Dukes, that surfer themed restaurant on pch So, first
Speaker 1: the sheriff and now his wife. I guess everyone loves
Speaker 1: the energy out in Malibu. Captain Bassarah isn't done with me.
Speaker 1: He keeps calling. He wants to know how I'm getting on.
Speaker 1: He's chipperer as usual, but they're starting to be a
Speaker 1: frantic edge to his patter. You really need to find
Speaker 1: out the truth, he says. He tells me that Sergeant
Speaker 1: Wright and Lieutenant Royal are causing him trouble. Actually, he says,
Speaker 1: the right and Royal thing is like shit, and I
Speaker 1: can't keep it off my boots. He says, he's stepping
Speaker 1: in it, tracking it all over his carpet. What they
Speaker 1: botched the investigation? He tells me. They're giving the defense
Speaker 1: a defense. He says, they're helping Anthony Rowda. There's a
Speaker 1: pair of top secret reports detailing all the ways Sergeant
Speaker 1: Wright and Lieutenant Royal allegedly screwed up the internal affairs
Speaker 1: reports about their police work. Captain Bassara says, to put
Speaker 1: him in an envelope, write my name on it. He's
Speaker 1: going to tape it to the bottom of his desk,
Speaker 1: and if he's killed in the line of duty, I
Speaker 1: should come to Lost Hills and claim it. It's Captain
Speaker 1: Bassarah again. I'm driving on PC, the ocean on my left,
Speaker 1: mountains on my right. He's going on and on about
Speaker 1: the screw ups in the router a case. I know
Speaker 1: what he thinks of right and Royal, or as he
Speaker 1: calls them, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. But what about the other cops?
Speaker 1: Ty Berry, the major crimes lead who showed up at
Speaker 1: route's early hearings, and Daniel Morris, the homicide detective who
Speaker 1: witnessed Tristan Bodette's autopsy, The ones with records of misconduct
Speaker 1: which I got from the DA's office. The dirty cops.
Speaker 1: I realize I've never asked him about those guys, Barry
Speaker 1: and Morris, He says brightly. I do know them. We
Speaker 1: were deputies together twenty years ago. We're like minded, he says,
Speaker 1: we understand each other. All of a sudden, I feel
Speaker 1: kind of sick, disoriented. I'm remembering this weird moment that
Speaker 1: happened when Bassarah was first showing me around the station.
Speaker 1: He asked if I wanted to see the jail. I
Speaker 1: did for sure. I knew Routa had spent time there,
Speaker 1: so Bassarah asked the jailer for the keys. He led
Speaker 1: me to a cell with a cot along one wall.
Speaker 1: I walked in and as I was looking around, I
Speaker 1: heard the sound of clanking metal. He was closing the door,
Speaker 1: and then, still smiling, he locked me in. Lost Hills
Speaker 1: is written and hosted by me Dana Goodyear. It's produced
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Speaker 1: Up next episode seven, Morning Light