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Ep 4 of 10: The Case Against Robin Cho (Part 2)

Strangeland

Audiochuck | Western Sound

True Crime

4.22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

LAPD investigators pounce on Cho, interrogating him twice in the same day. After hours of getting nowhere, emotions boil over in the interrogation room. The cops eventually arrest him for murder… but they may have missed their chance to make the case.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On March 16, 2009, police questioned Bonacho, Robin Chow's wife at her workplace.

0:14.2

Then, after she got home, they showed up there too, at her apartment without warning

0:20.4

and executed a search warrant.

0:25.0

The police came and took everything, like all the computers.

0:29.9

They said they needed to search through the computer and took them.

0:34.0

They came in, just took our stuff, and I thought they would return them after a couple

0:38.7

days.

0:39.7

My children needed the computers to do their homework, but I found out later that once they

0:45.0

take something, that's it.

0:48.3

It just didn't make any sense to me.

0:50.2

And I was like, how could this happen?

0:53.0

We couldn't do anything, but let all that just happen to us.

0:58.4

I was so scared.

0:59.7

I couldn't say a single word to them as they did whatever they wanted.

1:04.1

And my children were young.

1:06.4

That's just how it was.

1:09.0

It was like the sky came crashing down.

1:17.4

This search of Robin Chow's apartment is happening completely unbeknownst to him, because

1:22.7

he's back, sitting in an interrogation room with the LAPD, just being grilled by detectives.

1:32.1

I'm Sharon Choi.

1:33.9

And I'm Ben Adair.

1:35.9

You're listening to Strange Land, season one, the Korea Town murders.

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