Hi, Drowning Creek listeners. I'm investigative journalist Ben Adair.

As Sean continues to dig into the story of what really happened to Justin Gaines,

and you wait for him to bring you updates on his still ongoing investigation, there's another case I think you may be interested in learning about.

In the newest season of My Show Strangland, I partner with fellow podcaster Mailey Tao to look at a case where stories around what may have happened are really all that we have.

It's a case where we try to connect the dots between pieces that just don't fit. a case that's left several people wondering,

what really happened?

In 1996, an Academy Award-winning actor was gunned down in an alley in LA's Chinatown.

But this wasn't a typical murder.

The victim was Hang Nor, yes an Oscar winning actor, also a political activist, and refugee from Cambodia. Three teenage gang members

were convicted and sentenced to decades in prison for the murder. Yet to the

stay, the Cambodian community and many other people remain completely unconvinced of the boy's guilt because

several clues left at the scene don't square with the LAPD story that this was a robbery gone wrong.

Like for example, thousands of dollars in cash

found on Nore after he was killed.

Theories that Nore's murder may have been a political hit

ordered from halfway around the world,

alongside claims from so-called witnesses that investigators coerce their testimonies.

It's led many to believe that there's more to this story and has left me wondering if the

LAPD really got the right guys or if justice was lost in translation.

Listen to this trailer for Strangeland, season 3, The Killing Fields of LA, and, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles,

celebrations from the Lunar New Year were just wrapping up.

It was a Sunday. the Lunar New Year were just wrapping up.

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