Whiteside case: Hospital worker killed in girlfriend's botched plot to mug him for drug money

True Crime News: The Podcast

True Crime News

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Author and former detective Danny Smith joins host Ana Garcia for our "My Favorite Case" series. Smith spent 21 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, seven years as a homicide detective. Now he's a private investigator and consultant, and he's the author of the Dickie Floyd Detective Novel series.

Smith's new book "Nothing Left to Prove: A Law Enforcement Memoir" tells the stories of some of the cases from his days on the job, including the 2003 murder of William Whiteside, a hospital maintenance worker in California. Whiteside's burned corpse was found in the trunk of his car two weeks after going missing. His live-in girlfriend was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Her 16-year-old son, the son's 14-year-old friend and an ex-convict were also convicted.

Danny Smith:

https://dickiefloydnovels.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DickieFloydVIP/

Ana Garcia:

http://www.anagarciatv.com

https://www.instagram.com/anagnews

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Award of Warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some
0:05.3	strong language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who
0:10.9	may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's My Favorite Case. Everyone
0:16.4	in the world of True Crime has a story to tell about a case that they worked in summer high profile,
0:21.4	some you've maybe never heard of but they are all fascinating. Today's case is a really high
0:26.6	profile case. It is about a hunt for a killer. The victim was burned alive in his car and the woman
0:34.1	convicted of killing him sits on California's death row. The case involves drugs and white
0:40.6	supremacists and the man who worked this homicide is Danny Smith. He was an LA county sheriff's deputy
0:48.2	at the time. Now he is retired and he is a prolific writer of crime novels. You have one in the
0:55.8	background there. Danny, welcome to the program. Thank you and it's good to see you again.
1:01.2	It's good to see you. Danny and I actually worked on a case for Crime Watch Daily.
1:07.6	So that's how we know each other for the last few years. It's a case that was close to your heart.
1:12.8	Now it's interesting to me Danny that of all the cases that you could have discussed on this program
1:18.4	and you've even worked on the murder case against music producer Phil Spector that this was the
1:25.0	case that really stood out for you. This is this is a case that was really important to you. Why is that?
1:32.0	Well, it's it's truthfully it's the most tragic. Well, not the most, but it's one of the most
1:36.9	tragic cases I've ever worked. And it's and it's a it's a it's the type of a case that has
1:42.7	brought a pill to term crime fans because it's it's one of those stories that's it's unbelievable
1:49.4	truthfully. Yeah, it is. It's quite tragic. Let's just go through a quick summary of the case
1:55.9	and then you can tell us all the details of what it was like to work this case. The victim here
2:01.3	is 61 year old William Whiteside and he was killed on February 28th of 2003 in Lancaster, California.
2:11.0	William was a maintenance worker at a local hospital and he was found dead almost two weeks later.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from True Crime News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of True Crime News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.