Unsolved with Steve Gregory

Case #1 begins in Panorama City, California where a 65-year-old Census volunteer was struck and killed by a driver who ignored her presence in a well-marked crosswalk. The Los Angeles Police Department has a blurry photo of what they believe to be the car that hit the woman. Case #2 takes us to the parking lot of a liquor store in Lynwood, California where a homeless man was shot by the driver of a sedan. Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department say just prior to the shooting, surveillance video shows a bizarre chain of events that ended with the homeless man at the passenger side window of the car and the driver shooting from the driver’s seat.

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June 10, 2013, 29-year-old Johnny Ray Richards and a friend decided to drive to a video rental store in La Puente. Johnny was looking for a specific movie that only this store had in stock. His friend warned Johnny of the danger of going into ‘gang territory’ but Johnny reassured his friend that he knew some side streets that would avoid any exposure. Little did they know someone passed by them in another car, flipped a U-turn and tracked them one street over. A person in that car went ahead and waited for Johnny and his friend at a stop sign. When Johnny pulled up to the stop, a man opened fire killing Johnny and wounding his friend. People in the neighborhood not only saw what happened but know the shooter.

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Case #1: November 7th, 1990, 14-year-old Maribel Perez was found strangled to death on the floor of her bedroom in East Los Angeles. Investigators say Perez was known to hang out with gang members and may have been dating one. But 27 separate search warrants and blood tests revealed that a gang member was not a likely suspect.

Case #2: 19-year-old Michelle Diaz had 2 jobs and had applied to Arizona State University to pursue a medical career. On November 21, 2020, Diaz was shot and killed in front of a home on 106th Street in Unincorporated Los Angeles. Investigators say there were many witnesses, but none are willing to come forward.

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January 15th, 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short was found mutilated. Someone had performed an hemicorporectomy, the act of cutting a body in half at a specific point of the body. The woman who first spotted the body in a vacant lot thought it was a mannequin, mostly because the skin color was so pale, a result of Short’s fluids and blood being completely drained from her body. In this episode we speak with Steve Hodel, a retired detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Not only is Hodel fascinated by the case, he also has a personal connection.

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Unsolved live in studio with Steve Gregory. Steve recaps all cases covered in season 2 and answers your calls

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Case #1: August 2nd, 2020, Gloria Huerta was at a gathering with some friends in Lancaster when an argument broke out. A shotgun was brought into the mix, but it wasn’t clear if it had been fired. The next day she spoke to a friend in jail and told him she feared for her life. Hours later she was heard on a cell phone call saying she had been stabbed then the call was disconnected. She wasn’t seen or heard from again. By request we are replaying Case #2: August 2nd, 2022, a man went to check on his mother-in-law at her home in Woodland Hills. The 81-year-old woman was due at a family function but never showed up. When the man went into the home, he found her beaten, stabbed, strangled, and burned to death. Investigators are hopeful someone has surveillance video of a vehicle or person.

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Case #1: February 27th, 2016, 54-year-old Michelle Kelly-Love, her 27-year-old son, Jordan, and his grandmother had just pulled into the driveway of their home in Carson when someone pulled up and opened fire killing Michelle and Jordan. The grandmother survived. Detectives have exhausted all leads. Case #2: August 2nd, 2022, a man went to check on his mother-in-law at her home in Woodland Hills. The 81-year-old woman was due at a family function but never showed up. When the man went into the home, he found her beaten, stabbed, strangled, and burned to death. Investigators are hopeful someone has surveillance video of a vehicle or person. Case #3: A teenage girl is killed after she was thrown from a car in Santa Ana; she was trying to retrieve the cellphone that was just stolen from her. Police have a rough sketch of the driver, but it could be a man or woman.

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The Major Crimes Bureau is made up of people who do the ‘dirty work’, the ones who sit in their cars for hours at a time to watch one person, the ones who dress like a homeless person to blend in. Steve speaks with Sgt. Mike Maher, a 31-year veteran of the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Maher is a Detective Team Sergeant and oversees task forces and operations that tackle things like Murder for Hire, Bank Robberies, Threats on Public Officials, Kidnap for Ransom, and Organized Crime. This episode is part of the ongoing “Crime Fighter Series” which highlights those people and agencies that help prevent and solve crime.

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In this episode Steve talks with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sergeant Peter Hish about the level of cyber risk for the residents of LA County. Hish also breaks down Cyber Security issues and how investigators track down the ‘bad actors’ from other countries. Hish also talks about how to protect yourself from being a target of cybercriminals, phishing scams, and sextortion. This episode is part of our ‘Crime Fighter Series’ which highlights the people, agencies, and technology behind preventing and solving crime. This episode was taped live at the Morton's Steakhouse in Burbank, CA.

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