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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky.

Good evening. The murder of a retired Los Angeles schoolteacher in 2004 never made the evening news.

Yet within hours, arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy conviction sent to prison Jimmy Kittles,

an incredibly shy special needs teenager with no criminal history whatsoever.

Twenty years after the murder, a woman named Kelly Lee asked Burr-Bear and Frank C. Girardo

to investigate. She believed that the

case's rapid resolution concealed a deeper, more troubling narrative. One marked by deception,

manipulation, dishonesty, and a profound disregard for truth and justice. She was right. Of the last three people to see the victim

alive, only one had both the motive and the opportunity to strangle him to death. And it wasn't

Jimmy Kittles. What begins with a dead body on the bed leads to a bizarre scheme to steal a fortune and gold,

a plot to smuggle MDMA, and an incredible joint effort by the American mafia and the Russian

mob to defraud the United States government out of billions of dollars.

The book that we're featuring this evening is where murder lies,

death and deception in West Hollywood,

with my special guests, authors Burr-O-Barre, and Frank C. Gerardo Jr.

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