Hey folks, just a quick note at the top to state the obvious. This is an episode about a homicide detective.

There's some pretty grim stuff ahead. Like this story I'm just about to share.

In June of 2021, a Guatemalan man living in Los Angeles named Pedro sent an ominous text to his mother and brothers.

Saying he was sorry for what he did and asking for forgiveness, but he was being really cryptic about it.

So one of Pedro's family members called the police and LAPD patrol officers went over to his apartment to see what was going on.

And he lived with his wife and her brother had recently moved into the apartment from Mexico.

They went into the apartment and discovered the wife and her brother wrapped up in carpets.

And there was blood all over the apartment from one end to the other.

Pedro wasn't there.

He'd likely left days earlier and tried to give himself some time before the bodies were discovered.

He bought an air conditioning unit, a window unit,

and then he put it on a table and pointed it towards the bodies

that were rolled up in the carpet

in order to bring down the temperature.

So, you know, when we walked in the apartment, it was freezing cold.

Near the bodies, there was also a note that said he found his wife having relations with

her own brother, and that filled him with rage, and that's what caused him to snap.

And that is where homicide detective John Lemberty's work begins.

I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

In every episode, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession, an FBI special agent, an NBA referee, an interior designer. We want to know what they do all day at work. Today, we'll ask John Lamberti what it's like to be a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

We'll talk about how it feels to be grilled by a defense attorney.

Why cold cases are harder to solve than they used to be?

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