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Imperfect Paradise

The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 8

Imperfect Paradise

LAist Studios

Society & Culture

4.5535 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Part 8:

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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0:35.1

Hey, I'm Antonia Ceregido, and this is Imperfect Paradise from LAIS studios, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities.

0:44.5

You're listening to a special redrop of Imperfect Paradise The Forgotten Revolutionary from our second season.

0:51.1

For the last seven episodes, LAist correspondent Adolfo

0:55.0

Husman Lopez has been exploring every possible theory about Oscar's death.

1:00.0

Gomez died of massive head wounds, but his family doesn't believe he got them from falling off a cliff.

1:06.0

Nana knew who killed him. They didn't know who killed Oscar.

1:09.0

It was his buddies from the hazard.

1:17.6

I think I've turned a corner in terms of the everything people have been saying to us about Oscar being murdered.

1:19.6

This episode, Adolfo finally finds a person who was with Oscar the night he died, presents

1:26.2

his findings to Oscar's best friend,

1:28.9

and grapples with the ending of the investigation.

1:32.7

Here's LAS correspondent Adolfo Guzman Lopez.

1:41.8

For the better part of a year, I've been searching for anyone who saw Oscar Gomez the night he died.

1:48.3

In an earlier episode, we found a list of names in a briefcase, names of people who were in the apartment where Oscar was staying in Santa Barbara.

1:56.3

And we've been writing, emailing, reaching out in any way we could think of.

2:00.7

And I did find someone, Jose Gonzalez, one of Noel Huerta's six roommates.

2:05.8

But Jose told me he was not with the other roommates and Oscar on November 16, 1994.

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