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
"The Golf Pro vs the Robber with an Interesting Background".
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Ron Campise tells the Story of a Golf Pro with his 2 kids, who's house was invaded by a Robber and how he put his Clubs to good use.
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Hi, I'm Ron Campise. I was a supervisor with the Scientific Investigation Division in Los Angeles, also known as the CSI Unit or Crime Scene Unit. I work nights. This is a story about daytime though. And this story is entitled The Golf Pro versus The Robber with an Interesting Background. You know, on the west side of Los Angeles, this golf pro got home and told where his two little girls, his wife was working. And you know, they were they're about I'd say five years old, five and a half, giggling, and they went in the kitchen, and the first thing the golf pro noticed, something isn't right in this house. Then he noticed that the back patio door was busted open. So he went into the back bedroom, saw his golf clubs were all over the floor. Within a moment he felt a searing pain to the side of his head. He was hit in the head by one of his own golf clubs. He was hit hard, dropped into his knees, blood was trickling down the side of his face. And you know what he did? Instead of just being there, he is thinking about his little girls. He looked around, he grabbed his best club, which was an iron. First thing he did, he yelled into the kitchen as loud as he could with his daddy's voice. He said, Nancy, Chelsea, get out of the house now. And the little girls were shocked. And they got up and they ran screaming out of that house out the front door. And this robber with the club came after him one more time. Must have looked like a medieval joust. He blocked that hit, he blocked it with that iron, and they were jousting that room. The robber was swinging, he was swinging back, and finally he took his best shot and he hit that robber as hard as he could in the side with that iron. And the robber he screamed in pain. And he was still swinging at him. This guy was crapping and pissing all over the place. He had lost control of his bodily functions. Robber was swinging away and the golf pear was blocking the shots. And finally the golf pro said, I gotta end this. And he yelled at the guy, he goes, Get out of my house now. And so this guy came at him one last time and he swung that iron as hard as he could. He cleaved his skull right open. And the guy fell with a thump to his knees and fell flat on his face. Little girls went to the neighbor's house, and the neighbors called the police. They were already on their way. The golf pro he was taken to the hospital, one of the local hospitals, emergency. He was evacuated for what they thought was a concussion because he got hit pretty hard. And later, we arrived. And the first thing the detectives they had already called me in a radio, they told me they go, uh make sure and wear your booties, Ron. They go, This place is a mess. And sure enough, when I got there, entire living room, I'm gonna have to say it frankly, there was shit everywhere, smeared everywhere in that living room. And so I walked in, took care of the house, you know, all the evidence. The detectives that were collecting, documented the entire house, and then finally we got to the living room. And I gotta tell you, that living room, the first thing that hit you is a smell. Crime scenes, they're they're not pretty sometimes. They're never pretty. To collect more evidence, it was in the uh robbers' pockets. They had a sheet over him, and the RA units, rescue ambulance, they determined he'd be dead, put a sheet over him, a white sheet. So the detective took the sheet off the body, and I looked, photographed the body, and it was not pretty. There was brains leaking out of the skull. The whole house was contaminated. They told me, they go, Ron, his pockets are full of jewelry, a Rolex watch, that's what we determined, and credit cards and cash. And I looked around and they said, We gotta photograph it. And I looked around and I go, where are we gonna do this? And the detective got a bright idea. He said, Let's put the sheet back on the body and use his back as the backdrop. And so what we did carefully placed all the items on his back along with a scale and photographed them. The homeowner was released from the hospital, came back, and the first thing the detective told him, do not let your family back in that house. It's a mess. He told him there's shit and there's piss everywhere. So the detective handed him a card, which was a crime scene cleanup service. And he goes, have these guys go to the house, it may take all night, and then bring your family back in the morning. I guess a lesson learned from this, if you have no chance anymore, if you think you're in danger like that, sometimes you just have to fight back.