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Detective Trapp

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Detective Trapp

LAT

Homicide, Society & Culture, Police, Feminism, Personal Journals, Anaheim, Murder, True Crime

4.69K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 3: After weeks of frustration, Anaheim detectives break a murder case wide open —and find it larger and stranger than anyone could have anticipated.

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0:00.0

Detective Trap contains descriptions of violence and sexual content and is not suitable for everyone.

0:06.0

Please be advised. Detective Julissa Trapp pulled up to a well-maintained mobile home in Santa Ana.

0:21.5

The man at the door had known they were coming, but didn't know why.

0:26.0

He's still kind of, you know, kind of grimy from work, but he's very polite and at the same time concerned, right?

0:33.9

Because there's two policemen at his door

0:36.7

and were homicide detectives and he's nervous.

0:40.1

It was early spring of 2014, about two weeks into the investigation.

0:45.6

You could tell he's a working man.

0:47.2

You know, he's got calluses on his hands.

0:49.2

He's just dirty, like he's come from a hard day working construction.

0:54.0

The man was a window installer at Hardy Windows in Anaheim,

0:57.7

and he was still wearing his company's shirt.

1:00.8

Detective Julissa Trapp and her partner wanted to know why the man's fingerprint was at a murder scene.

1:07.0

It had been lifted from a cocking tube, a tube of acrylic sealant, found on a conveyor belt near the body of a young woman at a trash sorting plant.

1:17.0

Trapp showed him a photo of the tube.

1:19.0

And he's just kind of looking at us like,

1:21.0

yeah, I install windows, like that's a common cocking tube,

1:26.1

like I used it all the time. And so I'm trying to ask him, you know, do you know where you discarded this particular tube and he's looking at me like

1:36.0

woman you're crazy we know we go through this like crazy but then he tells us like

1:41.0

like well I can tell. I can tell you that we discard him at Hardy

1:47.2

Windows because we never throw away trash at a customer's home.

1:51.6

That is how late on the 15th day of the investigation, Detective

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