thing that just doesn t happen. never. never would have thought i would have ever seen anything like this. no, not here. not in this neighborhood, in this house. but certainly not, surely not at the very moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door and just over the backyard wall not more than 30 feet away. we had to be told a few times just to get it in our head what happened. what happened here in broad daylight under the very noses of the cops was murder. long beach, california. a lot of people assume it s like l.a., but it s not. it s different. it has its own identity. different culturally? i think so. i think long beach is sort of its own beast. sure.
walks out the back door. three cops waited outside the front door. two more cops pulled in right here in the alley behind the house. and then, to their great surprise, the prowler jumped over the backyard wall, practically into their arms. they searched him and found jewelry and a taser and a cell phone and a knife with blood on it. the cops out front waited for the woman to return. she didn t. ten seconds, 20 seconds, did a minute go by? they decided time to go in. they opened the door, looked through the house and what they saw was not just terrible, but a deception, a piece of pure evil. coming up, what could have happened in that house while it was surrounded by police officers. i didn t believe it. i thought it was a joke. until your father arrived with tears in his eyes. that was when i knew
lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. it was a horrible scream. it was just, something was wrong kind of scream. a woman s, she thought. she went outside to tell her mom. i said, did you hear that scream? she said, yeah, but i think it s just kids playing in the playing in the pool. kids, at six something in the morning? lindsay walked over to the six-foot brick wall between their yard and the halls . she stepped on the planter, she said, and looked over the wall. at that point i saw a man with his hand, one hand on top of a woman s head and one hand on her back, and she was face down in the water. like something was going on? yeah, that s what i assumed. that is, she thought she was looking at a sex act in
the love of his life? and the answer was right next door. when chris and cristi hall took their outdoor bath that morning in june, someone was watching. her. i got up at 6:00. got my coffee. lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. it was a horrible scream. it was just, something was wrong kind of scream. a woman s, she thought. she went outside to tell her mom. i said, did you hear that scream? she said, yeah, but i think it s just kids playing in the playing in the pool. kids, at six something in the morning? lindsay walked over to the six-foot brick wall between their yard and the halls . she stepped on the planter, she said, and looked over the wall.
i got up at 6:00. got my coffee. lindsay patterson was on leave from her i.t. job in the navy, visiting her mom who lives just over the backyard wall from the hall house. lindsay was inside, in the bathroom that faced away from the hall house and out onto the street, when she heard a noise. it was a horrible scream. it was just, something was wrong kind of scream. a woman s, she thought. she went outside to tell her mom. i said, did you hear that scream? she said, yeah, but i think it s just kids playing in the playing in the pool. kids, at six something in the morning? lindsay walked over to the six-foot brick wall between their yard and the halls . she stepped on the planter, she said, and looked over the wall. at that point i saw a man with his hand, one hand on top of a woman s head and one hand on her back, and she was face down in the water.