Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and the story I have for you today truly earns its title.

It is a classic locked in a room mystery that points in two different directions, leaving authorities

and the victim's loved ones divided.

This is the story of Oug de la Plaza. the So, the, It's a little after 8 Saturday morning, June 2nd, 2007 in San Francisco, California.

That's when a guy named Carl steps outside onto the front porch of his

apartment building. And this apartment building, it's like a standalone triplex-style

deal, so it's just like three units all in a row, all like on the ground floor.

Their doors are like side by side.

There's actually a picture in the Crime Junkie app if you're listening there,

or you can go to the blog post. And you should look because it will really help as I'm talking

about the rest of this episode. But anyways, Carl steps out to grab his morning paper, but when

he bends over to pick it up, something stops him cold,

something that he can't quite compute.

It's blood at the base of a small set of steps

leading to the sidewalk. And we're not talking a little bit of blood. This is a pool of blood. And there's another at the top of the landing. There's even blood streaks across the handrail and more alarmingly dripping from his neighbor

Ug de la Plaza's door handle. Carl runs inside and calls 911 insisting that they need to come

right away and the police do. I mean within minutes they're rushing to Oob's front

door where they knock several times, but there's nothing, like it is silent.

Now they check the door to see if they can get in, but it's locked.

Same with the door at the back of his unit.

But they are able to look through a window.

And inside they see even more blood, which gives the officers all the probable cause

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