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On 11 Oct 2019, Thomas Lifson <theamericanthinker@trump.ru> posted some news:qnqsnf$sck$1@news.albasani.net:

He voted for Obama, Newsom, Biden and Harris.

The son of an ex-Hollywood agent—charged with a woman’s murder after her dismembered torso was found in a dumpster Wednesday—apparently hired a
group of workers to haul her body parts in trash bags from his Los Angeles
area home.

“I started seeing body parts, a belly button,” one of the day laborers
told NBC Los Angeles. “I was astonished. Of course, I felt bad. We had
been tricked.”

The workers told the local TV station that the alleged killer, 35-year-old Samuel Haskell Jr., paid them $500 to remove three large trash bags from
his house in Tarzana—where police say Haskell lived with his wife, Mei,
who is believed to be his victim, and her parents, Gaoshan Li, 72, and
YanXiang Wang, 64, who are also missing.

When Haskell enlisted the crew on Tuesday, he told them the bags were
filled with rocks; once they lifted the items, however, they said it
seemed like meat was inside the 50-pound bags, which they described as
soft and soggy.

“When we picked up the bags, we could tell they weren’t rocks,” the
worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said in Spanish.

Concerned that something wasn’t right about the scrap removal, the men
pulled their truck over about a block away from the Haskell residence and peered inside the bags.

They returned to Haskell’s home to dump the bags in the driveway and
return the money, NBC reported, adding that, “The worker said they told
Haskell they didn’t want to be involved, and Haskell tried to pass the
body parts off as Halloween props.”

“God was watching over us,” the hired hand said, adding that the men
feared for their lives.

The workers said they tried to report what they encountered to police but
the California Highway Patrol directed them to the Los Angeles Police Department, which told them to leave and call 911 outside.

TMZ published surveillance video that showed Haskell flagging down a blue moving truck in front of his home. Minutes later, two men are captured on
video moving what appears to be large, black trash bags.

Haskell, who is being held on $2 million bail, is the son of a former
William Morris executive who represented actors including Ray Romano,
Whoopi Goldberg and Martin Short, as well as singer Dolly Parton. His
father, Haskell Sr., is also a former chairman of the board of the Miss
America Organization, the Hollywood Reporter revealed.

The alleged killer may have dabbled in the entertainment industry, too.

The Messenger, a news website, reported that he appeared to run a company called Tragicstreetz using the alias Samuel Basshinger. (On LinkedIn, a
profile for Basshinger declares, “I Direct Fashion Editorials and Music
Videos. I am passionate about collaborating with other Creators” and plugs
his “pop-culture / fashion photo blog on Instagram @tragicstreetz where I
share all my passion projects and creative inspo.”)

Tragicstreetz’s website says that Basshinger has worked with rappers
Machine Gun Kelly and Tyga, and actresses Peyton List and Olivia Holt and Cailin Russo.

Last year, Basshinger posted a 10-second TikTok video that announced, “My resume says unhappy, bitter, resentful, and really good at ordering off
the menu.”

Indeed, many of Basshinger’s TikToks are his opinions while driving his
car. Some videos show Basshinger going for walks, showing off outfits or
his arms, or staring into the screen as music plays. “Trust fund whack
job,” one commenter wrote on Saturday.

One friend of Mei told ABC7 that she invited the Haskells to a house party
and didn’t have warm feelings about the husband.

“They came there... very nice, beautiful, but the husband... I was
shocked,” the friend said. “Something seemed so off. Something seemed so
weird. I kept saying to my family, ‘Something is wrong with her husband.’”

Police say the couple has three young children, who were safe at school at
the time their mother is believed to have been murdered.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/workers-say-murder-suspect-samuel-haskell- hired-them-to-dump-body-parts-in-los-angeles

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