meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Strangeland

Ep 2 of 12: It's Chinatown

Strangeland

Audiochuck | Western Sound

True Crime

4.22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We head to Chinatown to hear the LAPD's official account of the crime and retrace detectives' footsteps as they worked this case. Authorities recount their breaks in the investigation – from clues found at the crime scene to revelations inside the interrogation room. The cops explain how they were able to charge the accused teens without any hard evidence. It all centered on the mystery of a golden locket.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Well, we're standing in an alley behind some apartment buildings that are located on Baudry

0:09.6

Avenue in Chinatown.

0:13.0

First stop on our investigation, the scene of the crime.

0:17.0

To really understand the official version of what happened that night in 1996,

0:22.0

we need to go to the alley where it happened.

0:25.6

The lead prosecutor on the case, Deputy District Attorney Craig Humme agreed to give us a tour.

0:31.3

The alley pretty much looks the same as it did back then. There are a few

0:34.0

surveillance cameras that weren't here at the time. Today Craig Humm is the head

0:38.8

deputy district attorney of major crimes in Los Angeles. He's a big deal. The Nor case came right at the beginning of

0:46.1

what's been a storied career and Hum knows the scene of this crime very well.

0:51.8

There was also much more graffiti in the alley from the Oriental Lazy Boys Gang,

0:56.0

which seems to either been painted over or otherwise removed.

1:00.0

It's a long alley.

1:02.0

A football field, maybe a football field and a half.

1:05.0

It's paved.

1:07.0

It looks like a street running north-south up a hill.

1:10.0

And as it heads north-south,

1:12.0

it is a gradual incline, and then at the very end there's a steeper incline to the top of the street.

1:17.0

The alley is lined with apartment buildings.

1:20.0

Most are a few stories tall, with a dozen or more units.

1:24.0

Some windows face the shimmering downtown skyscrapers.

1:27.4

Many have a direct view of the sloped alley.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audiochuck | Western Sound, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audiochuck | Western Sound and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.