I'm Alice and I'm Brett and episode of the prosecutor's legal briefs.

I'm Brett.

I know you're used to hearing Alice first, and Alice is still not with us today, but you are fortunate because I am not alone.

I am joined with Scott Hoover, veteran reporter, and the author of the hot new true crime book, Beverly Hills, Noir, Crime,

Sin, and Scandal in 90210. Scott, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Brett. I'm really happy to be here. Well, I'm really excited about this because I've got

to tell you, my experience with Beverly Hills is limited to the 90s television show.

And I didn't realize that it seems like maybe that show was a little bit more accurate than I thought.

Definitely more true to life than the Beverly Hillbillies.

Yeah.

And so I got to ask, how did you stumble upon the fact that Beverly Hills is apparently a place where you're going to find everything from murder suicides to superstars, shoplifters, and rat pack, bar room rumbles and everything in between?

Yeah.

I 30 years ago this year, I moved to Los Angeles.

And within a few days of being here, I actually saw the O.J. Simpson

Bronco chase with my own two eyes. And that sort of set the stage for where my career was going to

go in the next couple of years. And I got a job at a newspaper in Beverly Hills that had been around and was sort of the paper

of record, the Beverly Hills Courier, and juggled a bunch of different beats, one of which

was police and crime. And as I got a better rapport with the police department, I started learning

about some of the past stories that were exceptional along with the things that I was

covering at the time. And crime in Beverly Hills always seems to have like an unusual flare to it.

Not every story, but there's always some juicy, you know, story every few months that's got some

only in Beverly Hills kind of twist. So as I looked into the history, I just kept coming up with story after story after story.

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