Dying in LA LA Land
This PodCast series from Ron Campise Retired Night Supervisor L.A.P.D. Crime Scene Investigator/Documentarian with 20 years on the job, 13 years of which as a Supervisor on the Night Shift. The busiest shift for Crime Scene Investigation, mostly from 2 to 4 am, "The Hours of the Spirits of the Dead". With over 3000 cases personally investigated and documented everything from run of the mill murders to occasional death of celebrities. And a vast number of fatal accidents, death investigations, robberies, officer involved shootings, drug houses and meth labs with vast amounts of cash, literally falling out of the sky. As the evening super I coordinated with a squad of investigators another 10000 cases. "Dying In LA LA Land" Are Stories of my actual Experiences and/or Experiences of Friends or Co-Workers, So be prepared to be shocked, horrified, amused or just plain disgusted!!
Dying in LA LA Land
"Goo-Wee Eyes".
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Ron Campise tells the story of what was in a 55 gallon drum, left on someone's Driveway.
Goo-Wee Eyes Video, Based on a Dying in LA LA Land story. This video tells the story of Goo-Wee Eyes, Find out whats in the 55 gallon Drum, If you dare!!
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Now I want to begin with the first extraordinary true crime story podcast in the La La Land series about the city of Angels, Los Angeles. And this first story is called Gooey Eyes. And I'm going to relate to you this story of Gooey Eyes. These two fellows, their employer told 'em, they had this barrel sitting in the back of their company for a long time. And the barrel, for some reason, the word puta written on it. And people who know Spanish know what the word puta means, but I'm not going to go into it. So this old barrel and that barrel began to leak. And that barrel had been stored about three to five years, they determined. And these guys were told, get the truck, put it on a lift, and get rid of this barrel. Dump it somewhere. So what they did is they drove around, they drove around for hours in the city through industrial regions. They determined that all over the whole cities, people have cameras now. They have these cameras up everywhere. So the way they would find the cameras that they would point a laser up. And if the laser hit the camera, it would uh it would sparkle back. And so after driving around for several hours it was getting dark. They went through this residential area, went up this dead end street, and they saw this house. And they say, We're gonna dump it right here. They determined that no way is home, they backed the truck into the driveway, and they lowered the barrel out and they left it in somebody's driveway. Well the homeowner got there and he saw that barrel sitting there, and what he did is he wasn't happy about it. Who wants a stinking barrel with puta on it in your driveway? So what he did, he went up and he said, Well, I want to see what's in this barrel first. So he opened it, and that barrel, I and it was overwhelming the smell. He nearly he nearly fell down. He looked at it and he looked inside, and all he could see and all that putrid mess, what he thought was an eyeball floating at the top. One eyeball. He closed that thing up and he called the police immediately. To the LAPD, they don't know what this is, and they're busy. They just had to determine if this was what they call a hazmat call for the fire department or this was something else. So they sent their night detective in the area. And he showed up, and night detectives, they're very versatile people. They carry everything they need, they're very resilient, self-reliant. And he shows up. He has uh some hazmat stuff, he has what they call markers, he has gloves, and he called the uh department photographer, one of the photographers on the uh evening shift. And she showed up, her name is Mimi, and he said, Well, Mimi, we're gonna determine what this is. And they opened the barrel, he opened the barrel. Mimi was documenting everything. She'd already documented where it was, the house. And all this time when he was opening it up, he was on a cell phone, he was on the cell phone to the coroner, alerting him that there may be something here. And the coroner wouldn't come down because they said, Well, as well as far as we know, it's just a barrel. And so he looked inside, it was a putrid mess, he put on his hazmat gear, whatever he had, and he started to pull stuff out of the barrel. And what he did is he was reaching down into the bottom of the barrel, and he happened to pull out a saw. So he goes, Oh, and he's on the phone, oh, there's a saw in here. It's very unusual. Then he pulled out a hammer, then he pulled out some long object, he couldn't determine what it was. To him, it looked like a femur bone. And so he put it on the ground on a tarp, and they were marking everything, and maybe he was photographing it. And she told that detective, she goes, Detective, she called him Detective Steve. She goes, I don't think this is a femur bone, but he kept going, he didn't stop, you know. So finally he dug around and he found something else and he pulled it out, and it was all gooey and everything, and he put it down there, and sure enough, they didn't know what it was. But when Mimi rinsed it off, she says, Detective, I think this is an eyeball. And so he is busy doing that, he's still pulling stuff up, he's trying to get one more object out of that barrel. He couldn't reach it, so he had to put both hands in the barrel. He told Mimi, I'm gonna get this thing out of here. I don't know what it is, but it's round, I'm gonna pull it out. And what he did is he started to pull it up, and he switched to one hand, and sure enough, he was standing on a rickety old stool he had found in a corner there. Bent legs, and sure enough, that stool gave way, and he fell head first into that barrel. And he pulled back and he pulled that object out, and he fell right on his ass, on the back of a tarp. And he was covered in that goo. And Mimi was just standing there horrified. She couldn't believe what happened. But you know what Mimi did? She just kept taking pictures because she knew this had to be documented, and she called and he called and they sent what they call the cavalry out there because what he pulled out of that barrel and it was staring him straight in his face was a skull with another eyeball hanging out of it. And so the thing is though, the cavalry came, the hazmat, the coroner, people to de uh decontaminate him in the scene, other detectives. He had no regrets over doing this, he was just doing his job. But the next day when he showed up in the detective bureau, the other detectives, they had put on his desk and his monitor all these deodorant Christmas trees and things that you put in a car, they were all over his desk and on his monitor. And he just laughed about it. He just he knows how to take a joke. But you know, on the follow-up of that, after they did the analysis, they took the barrel to the coroner's office, did the analysis, they found out there were two bodies in that barrel. Again, they had been in there for three to five years. And on one of the hands, the bones of the hand, there was a ring on there. They determined because of the skulls that were in there, and other bones and the ring, that the two people in that barrel were young women. And that the ring, they did the composition of it, they did the styling, and they compared it, that it was from a certain region of Thailand. And what they concluded was that those two women were victims of human trafficking. Whatever the horrendous things they had gone through when they were done with them, these two young women, and they were very petite, wound up in that barrel. And again, this is just another story of the uh La La Land series. Take care, this is Ron Gampise.