Workers claim murder suspect Sam Haskell paid them $500 to remove trash bags ‘containing BODY PARTS’ from his LA home and tried to pass them off as Halloween props – as his wife and in-laws remain missing after woman’s torso was discovered

A group of workers claim they were hired to move garbage bags containing “body parts” from Sam Haskell’s Los Angeles home.

The workers said they were hired by Haskell, 35, the son of a top Hollywood music talent agent who was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder.

Surveillance footage captured the moment a dismembered torso was thrown into a dumpster before being discovered by a homeless man.

The workers say they were paid $500 to remove three large garbage bags from Haskell’s garage, which he said was full of rocks.

“When we picked up the bags, we could see they weren’t bricks,” one worker said NBC4.

Haskell Jr. is accused of killing his wife Mei Haskell, 37, after a dismembered female torso was found and linked to him. His wife is missing, as are her parents

The workers, who did not want to be identified, claim the bags they were assigned to move were soft and heavy, appeared to be filled with meat and weighed about 50 pounds.

After putting the bags in a truck, they said something didn’t feel right about the job, and they stopped the truck a block from the house to inspect them.

That’s when they say they saw the bags filled with body parts.

“I was amazed,” the worker said. ‘Of course I felt bad. We were deceived.’

They said they ran back to Haskell’s house, left the bags in his driveway and returned the money.

“God was watching over us,” they added, saying they feared for their lives because of the gruesome nature of their find.

When they told Haskell they didn’t want to be involved in the situation, they said Haskell was trying to pass off the body parts as Halloween props.

The workers added that they immediately rushed to inform police, but claim they were turned away from two police stations when they tried to report the incident.

After the California Highway Patrol station in De Soto, California told them to report to the Los Angeles Police Department, they said an LAPD precinct in Topanga told them to leave and call 911 from the parking lot.

Mei Haskell (left), her mother YanXiang Wang, 64, and her father Gaoshan Li, 72, are all missing. Haskell has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife Mei

Police, along with Mei’s parents, search the $2.5 million, six-bedroom home where the young Haskell family lived

The suspect’s father, Sam Haskell Sr., is seen with Dolly Parton, whom he represented for years

Haskell lived with his wife’s parents and their three children, with his in-laws YanXiang Wang, 64, and Gaoshan Li, 72, who are currently missing.

The three children, ages 6, 8 and 12 – Samuel Bond Haskell V, James Donnelly Haskell and William Kirkpatrick Haskell II – were found safe at school and are now with family.

Haskell Jr.’s arrest has turned their Tarzana neighborhood upside down, where the family lived in a $2.5 million six-bedroom house.

Haskell Jr.’s father, Samuel Haskell Sr., was a high-profile agent at William Morris, whose clients included Dolly Parton, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg and King Charles’ brother, Prince Edward.

His son was arrested Wednesday at a Topanga shopping center after a headless torso believed to be Wei’s was found in a dumpster by a homeless man around 6 a.m.

The dumpster was captured on chilling surveillance footage showing a man struggling to put a large black bag in the trash before driving away.

Surveillance footage shows a white SUV parked at the dumpster in Encino with the trunk open

The bag was found in a duffel bag and thrown into a dumpster (photo) behind Ventura Boulevard and Rubio Avenue, near a family restaurant, hair salon and two banks.

Haskell IV’s TikTok page shows him taking part in bizarre monologues, with a 2022 fascination with Brad Pitt. He also posts videos of himself at a Calabasas country club and a Ralph Lauren store, and driving around in his car.

It’s unclear whether the pouting, muscle-flexing videos were a parody or serious.

He discussed and talks about burnt steak. In one video he talks about feelings of resentment.

“My CV says: unhappy, angry and very good at ordering off the menu,” he says at one point.

“Now I’ll never stop drinking.”

In addition to being a top talent agent, the murder suspect’s father was CEO of the Miss America organization from 2015 to 2017, but resigned after it emerged that he had criticized some of the contestants in private emails, with one ridiculed because he arrived and described another. as promiscuous.

Haskell Sr. is married to a former Miss Mississippi, Mary Donnelly Haskell, his college sweetheart, and the couple has a daughter, Mary Lane, and their son Sam IV.

In his business biography, Haskell Sr. says. that he is “widely known as ‘the nice guy in Hollywood.'”

He continued, “Haskell is revered for rising to the top of a turbulent and often unscrupulous company with his character, integrity and value system intact.

“His reputation for honesty, integrity, loyalty and honesty made him a steady force in a sea of ​​inconsistency and someone with whom actors, writers, directors and other industry professionals were eager to work.”

Haskell III is seen with Miss America contestants in 2017

Mary Donnelly Haskell was a former Miss Mississippi

The couple has a daughter, Mary Lane, and their son Sam IV

Haskell III (center) appears at the September 2021 Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Television Movie for ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’

From Haskell Jr.’s social media shows that he has a penchant for film and digital media, with frequent posts about camera setups and artistic portraits.

His wife regularly posed for his Instagram photos, often in highly stylized, sharp shots.

A neighbor who knew Mei Haskell told the story ABC7 that during her few encounters with Samuel he seemed strange.

“The man, something seemed so strange,” the woman said.

‘Something seemed so strange. I thought maybe he was sick, or something was wrong. All I said was, I kept telling my family, there’s something wrong with him.’

Tuesday evening, construction workers called police after reporting seeing a body in a bag in the driveway.

When the police arrived, the body was already gone.

LAPD Detective Efren Gutierrez told NBC4 Wednesday night, “When officers responded, nothing was found.

‘There was no evidence that allowed the officers to enter the home.

‘The bags described were no longer outside.’