The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 8
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Adolfo finds new information about the night Oscar died, and has to have a difficult conversation about what really happened to Oscar.
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| 0:34.3 | For the better part of a year, I've been searching for anyone who saw Oscar Gomez the night he died. |
| 0:40.3 | In an earlier episode, we found a list of names in a briefcase, names of people who were in the |
| 0:45.3 | apartment where Oscar was staying in Santa Barbara. And we've been writing, emailing, reaching out in any way we could think of. |
| 0:52.6 | And I did find someone, Jose Gonzalez, one of Noel Huerta's six roommates. |
| 0:57.7 | But Jose told me he was not with the other roommates and Oscar on November 16, 1994. |
| 1:04.6 | I didn't see him in the apartment that night. |
| 1:07.6 | I know they were all partying. |
| 1:10.7 | After everything I learned last episode about the bluffs and Oscar's injuries, I thought |
| 1:16.6 | the investigative part of this journey was over. |
| 1:21.0 | But then, one of the many emails we sent out came back. |
| 1:25.6 | It said, my apologies for the late response, but that is me. |
| 1:31.8 | We made contact with another roommate from the Santa Barbara apartment where Oscar spent some of his |
| 1:38.3 | last hours alive, and he remembered Oscar. |
| 1:44.1 | Okay. And he remembered Oscar. Hello, Javier. |
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