This podcast contains adult themes and language, and some of the things that we discuss may be disturbing to some listeners.

In this podcast, we discuss sexual assault, torture, race, and murder.

Listener discretion is advised. Please take care of yourself. Now it's time to talk about Timothy Joseph McGee's early life.

What do you got for us, Beth? Well, Timothy Joseph

McGee was born on April 27, 1973, and raised in Atwater Village, a lower middle-class

neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles just off Interstate 5, north of downtown, and near Glendale.

His father, a white man of Scottish descent,

left the family when Timothy was still young to work in Alaska. His mother is Mexican-American,

and we could not find out if he had any siblings. As a boy, Timothy has been described as a scrawny skateboarder, who is often bullied by local gang members.

In response, he toughened up and learned to fight.

He also liked writing rap lyrics, and it's been said that he had a talent for it.

Before long, he began associating with the same gang members who had once harassed him,

and eventually he joined the Tunerville

Rifa 13 gang, a mostly Chicano street gang rooted in at Water Village.

The gang, which is often abbreviated as TVR, traces its name to the Tunerville Trolley,

a reference to a comic strip and film series from the early 1900s featuring a trolley that goes

through the center of a town. Because a trolley once ran through Atwater Village in the 1920s,

locals nicknamed the area Tunaville and the name stuck. Though the Tunaville gang has existed

since the 1950s and by 2000 had over 400 members,

it was seen as a relatively small, low-profile gang, small fish, big pond.

Right.

Compared to other Sorenio gangs in Los Angeles County.

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