Police have arrested a man after finding a woman’s torso in a plastic bag thrown into a dumpster in the parking lot near a family restaurant and nail salon.
Samuel Haskell, who lives in Tarzana, LA, just five miles from where the human remains were discovered, was arrested yesterday around 11 a.m. and is being held on $2 million bail. abc7 reports. He has been charged with one murder.
Haskell’s wife, Mei Haskell, and her parents Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshen Li are missing and all three lived with the suspect in Tarzana’s home.
The police found traces of a crime in the house, including blood. They believe the torso is that of Mei Haskell, but partial remains are harder to identify.
The torso believed to be Ms. Haskell’s was found in a black plastic bag that was stuffed into a duffel bag and thrown into a dumpster behind Ventura Boulevard and Rubio Avenue in Encino, California.
The torso believed to be that of Mei Haskell (pictured) was found in a black plastic bag that was stuffed into a duffel bag and thrown into a dumpster behind Ventura Boulevard and Rubio Avenue in Encino, California.
The torso was found early yesterday morning in Encino, California after a concerned call to police about human remains in a black plastic bag, LA police said.
A homeless man found the torso around 6:15 a.m. yesterday while searching through dumpsters in the parking lot of a family restaurant, a hair salon and two banks for recyclables, according to LA police.
The police assume that the body part has been there for more than a few days.
“When a murder suspect dismembers a body, it is to delay identification,” LAPD Detective Efren Guttierez told me. KTL about the difficulty of identifying the victim from only part of the body part.
A homeless man found the torso around 6:15 a.m. yesterday while searching through dumpsters in the parking lot of a family restaurant, a hair salon and two banks for recyclables, LA police said.
After reviewing surveillance footage of the area, police said they were directed to Haskell’s home in the 4100 block of Coldstream Terrace in Tarzana, about five miles from where the torso was dumped, police said. LA times.
Haskell lived in the house with his wife, her parents and the couple’s three children.
The children were found at school yesterday and turned over to the Department of Children and Family Services.
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’s wife, Mei Haskell, and her parents Yanxiang Wang (left) and Gaoshen Li (right) are missing and all three lived with the suspect in Tarzana’s house
After reviewing surveillance footage of the area, police said they were directed to Haskell’s home in the 4100 block of Coldstream Terrace in Tarzana (center in photo), about five miles from where the torso was dumped, according to the L.A. Times.
Haskell lived in the house with his wife, her parents and the couple’s three children
Police had investigated a call to the couple’s address, where witnesses said they saw body parts in a bag outside the home.
But when officers arrived at the address, the bag was nowhere to be found.
A local resident told abc7: ‘I find it a bit strange to be dropped off along the boulevard and the small center here and discover that body parts were there… in Encino.’
Another resident added that crime in Encino has been on the rise for a few months.
Anyone with information is urged to contact LA police.