Double trouble. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

On November 6th, 1996, the Irvine Police Department got a call from 911 Dispatch,

relaying that at 3.20 p.m., a distressed young woman living in the San Marco apartment homes

had needed help. The police were changing shifts and they were surprised. It was the afternoon

and a quiet community only half a mile from the station. 911 said the call was urgent.

Two people had broken into the young woman's apartment, both had guns.

The assailants found the woman's roommate and tied her up with duct tape and plastic twine.

The caller was hiding in the bathroom. They hadn't found her yet and she feared for her life.

Today, we're talking about the relationship of identical twins turned criminal,

the Han twins murder conspiracy. Irvine is an orange county and has a kind of sinister

master planned rooting to begin with. In 1878, James Irvine bought up and owned the over

100,000 acre stretch along the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana River. When Irvine died,

his son James Irvine Jr. took over and really branded up the place, making everything a part of

the Irvine company, which it still reflects today, with names, signs, and the Irvine company logo

all over town. This conservative safe haven, and I do mean safe, crime is insanely low compared to

the other Southern California cities, has malls, office parks, university of Irvine,

and something I learned during my tutoring days, a large community of first and second generation

Asian immigrants, who formed a close knit circle in an even closer knit city.

As kids sunny Han and her identical twin sister Jean, Gina Han, were inseparable as they

traveled from Korea to Southern California with their mother, a woman named Boo-Jun Kim.

Kim was born and raised in Incheon, South Korea and struggled a lot in her own life. As a child,

she witnessed the occupation of North Korean troops in Incheon. Her father also left her mother

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