A note, this episode includes graphic information and discussions of self-harm that some people may find upsetting.

Listener discretion is advised. The surveillance footage clearly showed a white Tesla gliding into a parking lot.

It appeared to be the most ordinary of scenes, especially for Encino, California, a wealthy

enclave a few miles northwest of Los Angeles.

But then, instead of beginning the classic Angelino ritual of circling around looking for an empty spot,

the driver pulled a car to a halt in front of a dumpster.

The driver was a white man with long dirty blonde hair and dressed in nondescript white tea and jeans and he quickly got out of the car.

He walked over to open the gate in front of the trash bins. Then he crossed back to his

car and popped the trunk. The driver leaned in and reached for something. It was wrapped in a black trash bag, but whatever it was it was big and

unwieldy and difficult to carry. He wrapped both arms around it to roll it toward him and pulled it out of the car.

He wrestled with it, trying to get a good hold on it.

He bent his knees to heft its weight, and then threw it over his shoulder and struggled to make a few

steps to the waiting dumpster looking almost like a parent carrying a sleeping child

who was maybe a little bit too old for that.

A couple other cars cruise through the scene, including a white van that passed right

by the driver as he finished disposing of whatever was in the bag.

His mission accomplished, he swung the gate shut behind him and got back in the car.

He then slowly and smoothly executed a three-point turn and left the way he came.

The driver is alleged to be Sam Haskell the fourth, the son of a major Hollywood power

player, and his life was about to take a turn straight out of a movie.

This is the opportunist, an original podcast from Podcast One.

You're listening to a story told in one episode called Sam Haskell the fourth, second-rate slasher.

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