Sam Haskell

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 2023, authorities received a call about possible human body parts in plastic bags outside of a home in Tarzana, California. When officers arrived at the scene, there were no bags in front of the house and no body parts to be found. The next morning, a man found a torso in the dumpster, which ignited an exhaustive investigation.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss Sam Haskell. The son of a Hollywood mogul, Sam was 35 years old and married with children in 2023. As the investigation unfolded, the authorities released that Sam's wife, Mei Li, and his in-laws, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshen Li, were missing. It would be up to the detectives to try to unravel the mystery around what happened to them.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 370 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:43.2	And this is Mike Morford.
0:45.0	Mr. Morford, how you doing, buddy? Just get back from vacation.
0:48.9	Yeah, I'm getting back in the saddle. And, uh, you know, it's always hard when you come back
0:52.7	vacation, getting back to work and, you know, taking always hard when you come back vacation getting back to work
0:54.5	and you know taking it on but i'm i'm diving in and here we are recording this new episode how
0:59.9	you been i've been doing good you know i had uh a little vacation last week as well and it is hard
1:08.8	you know you when you have a week where you don't really have the same
1:14.4	responsibilities and you're kind of just lounging, you might be having a few cold ones or
1:20.4	whatever it is. And then you come back and it's like, boom, you are right back in the,
1:25.1	in the swing of things. It can be a little jarring right at first
1:29.0	yeah you just got to plug away and get back to work let's go ahead and give our patreon shout
1:34.6	outs we had cinda sharp christina frisch and abigail gutierrez so a lot of new support
1:41.4	we really appreciate that that's really. Thank you so much for that
1:45.4	support. And for anyone else that would like to help, head over to patreon.com slash criminology to get
1:50.3	signed up. So we're just about a month away from CrimeCon. And we've been giving people our
1:55.2	promo code criminology to use to save 10% on their standard badges at checkout at crimecon.com.
2:02.4	But now we have some info about our joint criminology T-Cat meetup there.
2:07.6	CrimeCon is happening September 5th through the 7th at the Gaylord,
2:11.0	Rockies Resort and Convention Center.
2:12.9	That's in Aurora, Colorado.
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