In 1994, when the OJ Simpson case was playing on basically every television set in the United States,

there was another much more bizarre case unfolding in Los Angeles.

One that I can't remember ever discussing, yet it's one of the most bizarre murder and fraud cases I've ever heard of.

This story started on April 16, 1988 in Glendale, California, when Dr. Richard Boggs, a Harvard educated neurologist, called 911,

and said that one of his patients had collapsed at his office.

The doctor told the police that the patient, 46-year-old Melvin Eugene Hansen, known as Gene, had been coming to him for years.

He said that Gene owned a clothing store and was based in Columbus, Ohio.

But he said Gene still came to him for occasional doctor's visits when he was in the area.

The story that Dr. Boggs gave the police was that Gene didn't like going to hospitals, so one night after Gene had been drinking,

Dr. Boggs said that Gene started having chest pains and called him at around 5am, so they met at the office,

and Dr. Boggs hooked Gene up to the EKG machine.

He said that while he was out of the room doing some paperwork, he heard a sound that sounded like something heavy dropping.

And that by the time he got back to the examination room, Gene had collapsed, and it appeared to Dr. Boggs that Gene had a heart attack.

Dr. Boggs said he called 911, but said that the line was busy, so he said he then started CPR,

and kept doing it for around 40 minutes before calling emergency services again.

This time, at around 7am, the call went through.

Detectives were suspicious of Dr. Boggs' story for several reasons.

They checked the EKG tape.

The last reading on that machine had been in around midnight,

and yet the doctor was saying that he hadn't called 911 until around 6am.

So they asked, what was going on in that office during those six hours?

They had no way of knowing that what appeared to be a man who died of natural causes would suck them into a world,

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