Case file - The Killing Hands
Confidential
For readers eyes only
Photos
The cast
The evidence
Photos
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Below are some photos I took of the crime scene and LA area during a visit in October 2008. Just your typical LA tourist!
Crime-scene location
The car park that lies on the corner of 2nd Street and Los Angeles Street. This is where the victim is found in The Killing Hands.
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Comment: The car park was quite a bit smaller (like about one-third of the size) than I’d realized (found it on Google Maps originally), but the building site behind it worked really well with the narrative and crime-scene location.
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FBI Building
This is the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard, which houses the FBI as well as Veteran Affairs, passport office, etc. Sophie works on the twelfth floor – floors 10-20 are all FBI or law enforcement related.
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Comment: When I was visiting the building, I was snapping away when a security guard appeared and informed me that I was not allowed to take photos of the Federal Building. I had to delete (in front of him) all the video footage and photos that showed the building in more detail (i.e. that were taken from closer in). He was an absolutely lovely guy though, and so nice about it! My Aussie accent may have helped!
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Coroner’s Office
The Coroner’s Office is located on Mission Street, downtown LA.
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Comment: This is taken from Mission Street and shows the main administrative building, and to the very right you can see another, white building (see below).
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Comment: This is where the autopsies actually take place.
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Comment: The official cars of the Coroner’s Office.
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The cast
Law enforcement
Special Agent Sophie Anderson, profiler, FBI LA
Detective Ramos, LAPD, Homicide
Special Agent Petrov, Organized Crime and Gangs SAC, FBI LA
Special Agent Joe Dimos, DEA, Gang Impact Team
Special Agent Ha Yeon Kim, DEA, Gang Impact Team
Special Agent Williams, ATF, Gang Impact Team
Special Agent Dan Young, DEA
Dr Lloyd Grove, forensic pathologist, Coroner’s Office
Detective Darren Carter, Arizona PD, Homicide
Organised crime
Tomi Moto, head of LA’s Yakuza
Takeshi Suzuki, second in charge LA’s Yakuza
Miki, Yakuza ‘thug’
Victim
Jun Saito, son of first Korean Yakuza godfather, Hisayuki Saito
Other cast members
Bob & Jan Anderson, Sophie’s parents
Mee Kim – knew victim somehow?
Sifu Lee, Sophie’s Kung Fu teacher
Chung Lee, Kung Fu teacher’s cousin, with Beijing Police
The evidence
Obviously I don’t want these case files to contain spoilers, so I can’t detail every single clue and how it plays out during the investigation. However, this is a summary of the starting point.
Crime scene
Cigarette butt left at crime scene
License plates from cars at crime scene
Debris at crime scene – finger prints?
Reconstruction of shot-out light
From the vic
Vic’s blood alcohol level
Vic’s clothes to trace – drugs?
Analysis of vic’s facial features to try to pinpoint race
Fingerprints to US State Department (for matches with people entering country) and Interpol
Once ID confirmed: Vic’s hotel room and laptop
Other
VICAP – any similar murders?
Mee Kim - relationship to vic?