Unsolved with Steve Gregory

In this episode we revisit all the cases from the fourth season including that of a 14-year-old girl who was murdered inside her home in East Los Angeles, the young woman found inside a trunk in Pomona, and a case out of Lynwood dating back to 1969. We also welcomed some new detectives to the program from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Pomona Police Department. If you have a c...

Sergeant Pete Hish joins the show to discuss efforts to prevent and stop cybercrime. Hish works in the LA County Sheriff’s Department’s Fraud and Cybercrimes Bureau. Hish not only outlines some interesting cases he also offers some advice on how to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of cybercrime. Hish also talks about the tools he uses to track hackers and those who target the vulnerable. He...

As part of our Crime Fighter Series, we talk with United States Forest Service Captain and Arson Investigator Russel Tuttle. Tuttle is a 16-year veteran of the United States Forest Service, who has received numerous awards for his work and outstanding performance. Captain Tuttle walks us through the 2014 “Colby Fire” that burned 2,000+ acres in the Angeles National Forest. Tuttle talks about how t...

Nemesio Osegura-Cervantes, also known as, “El Mencho” is the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), considered the largest drug cartel in the world. Officials say the CJNG is responsible for more than one third of all the illegal drugs entering the United States and has a huge footprint on illicit drugs coming into Southern California. DEA Agent Kyle Mori has been tracking El Mencho f...

Case #1: On November 4th, 1969 at 7:40 AM, 14-year-old Janasul ‘Jan’ Roseana Marsh was found face down near a home in Lynwood. Detectives say she was strangled with a polo shirt. Jan had a reputation of hanging with the wrong crowd, including older men. At one point there were more than 20 persons of interest, including a few women. What made this case even more complicated is the Lynwood Police D...

In the summer of 2005, the body of 15-year-old Yanely Ulloa was found stuffed into the trunk of a BMW. The car had been illegally parked for days at a red curb in front of a fire hydrant, within plain view of the Pomona Police Department. A passerby called the police complaining of a strong stench coming from the car. The body had gone undetected for days inside the trunk in the sweltering heat. I...

Case #1 begins in Panorama City, California where a 65-year-old Census volunteer was struck and killed by a driver who ignored her presence in a well-marked crosswalk. The Los Angeles Police Department has a blurry photo of what they believe to be the car that hit the woman. Case #2 takes us to the parking lot of a liquor store in Lynwood, California where a homeless man was shot by the driver of...

June 10, 2013, 29-year-old Johnny Ray Richards and a friend decided to drive to a video rental store in La Puente. Johnny was looking for a specific movie that only this store had in stock. His friend warned Johnny of the danger of going into ‘gang territory’ but Johnny reassured his friend that he knew some side streets that would avoid any exposure. Little did they know someone passed by them in...

Case #1: November 7th, 1990, 14-year-old Maribel Perez was found strangled to death on the floor of her bedroom in East Los Angeles. Investigators say Perez was known to hang out with gang members and may have been dating one. But 27 separate search warrants and blood tests revealed that a gang member was not a likely suspect. Case #2: 19-year-old Michelle Diaz had 2 jobs and had applied to Arizon...

January 15th, 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short was found mutilated. Someone had performed an hemicorporectomy, the act of cutting a body in half at a specific point of the body. The woman who first spotted the body in a vacant lot thought it was a mannequin, mostly because the skin color was so pale, a result of Short’s fluids and blood being completely drained from her body. In this episode we s...

Unsolved live in studio with Steve Gregory. Steve recaps all cases covered in season 2 and answers your calls See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Case #1: August 2nd, 2020, Gloria Huerta was at a gathering with some friends in Lancaster when an argument broke out. A shotgun was brought into the mix, but it wasn’t clear if it had been fired. The next day she spoke to a friend in jail and told him she feared for her life. Hours later she was heard on a cell phone call saying she had been stabbed then the call was disconnected. She wasn’t seen...

Case #1: February 27th, 2016, 54-year-old Michelle Kelly-Love, her 27-year-old son, Jordan, and his grandmother had just pulled into the driveway of their home in Carson when someone pulled up and opened fire killing Michelle and Jordan. The grandmother survived. Detectives have exhausted all leads. Case #2: August 2nd, 2022, a man went to check on his mother-in-law at her home in Woodland Hills....

The Major Crimes Bureau is made up of people who do the ‘dirty work’, the ones who sit in their cars for hours at a time to watch one person, the ones who dress like a homeless person to blend in. Steve speaks with Sgt. Mike Maher, a 31-year veteran of the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Maher is a Detective Team Sergeant and oversees task forces and operations that tackle things like Murder for H...

In this episode Steve talks with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sergeant Peter Hish about the level of cyber risk for the residents of LA County. Hish also breaks down Cyber Security issues and how investigators track down the ‘bad actors’ from other countries. Hish also talks about how to protect yourself from being a target of cybercriminals, phishing scams, and sextortion. This episode is part of...

Case #1: December 30th, 2018, 46-year-old Demetrius Brackens and a relative had just walked out of the front door of a home in Compton. As they went down the sidewalk a man came up on them and without warning or provocation opened fire fatally hitting Brackens and injuring the relative. Neither of the men were tied to a gang and a doorbell video caught a glimpse of an SUV driving from the scene. C...

Case #1: May 14th, 1979, 13-year-old Timothy Troutman and his 2, 11-year-old buddies were walking through a large vacant field near Cal State Dominguez Hills. The boys saw a man described as Black, early 20’s, thin build, large afro hairstyle. The 11-year-old boys say the man reeked of booze and PCP. At one point, the man grabbed Timothy and held him at knife point; the other boys ran to get help...

On November 14, 1970, 18-year-old Robin Graham had left the parking lot of her job after a night out with friends. As Robin was driving home southbound on the 101 her 1965 Dodge Polara ran out of gas. A CHP officer stopped and told her to use the callbox for a tow or to contact her father. Minutes later, the same CHP officer noticed a blue corvette behind Robin’s car. That’s the last time she was...

Case #1: On July 3, 2014, 15-year-old Ruby Rubio was walking with her sister in Santa Ana when a man approached and asked her for the time. Ruby pulled out her phone to see the clock, but the man grabbed the phone and ran away - Ruby chased the man who got into a waiting car. As the car sped away Ruby jumped onto the trunk lid and held on, the driver swerved until Ruby was thrown off the car. She...

On March 31, 1988, a man walking his dog at Santiago Park in Santa Ana found the body of a woman partially hidden under some brush. When the man got closer, he realized the woman’s head was missing. The woman’s pants were pulled down to her knees and she was barefoot. The Coroner estimated the woman was in her 20’s. Police searched the immediate area and didn’t find the head. Two days later, some...

Case #1: 16-year-old Danah (pronounced Donna) Rojo-Rivas was sitting in the backseat of her mother’s car at a red light in Lynwood. Her and her family were headed home from church when a car chase came up on them. Gunfire erupted, and Danah was hit. Case #2: Raymond Garcia was at a neighbor’s home celebrating a 1-year-old’s birthday. As the 16-year-old left the party a van pulled up, a bunch of gu...

19-year-old Bryce Laspisa had just broken up with his girlfriend at a college in northern California. He was distraught and told his parents he was driving to their home in Orange County to tell them something important. Along the I-5 freeway Laspisa stopped at a rest area. A tow truck driver and 2 deputies were among the people to make contact with Bryce. Hours later, Bryce’s SUV was found overtu...

Unsolved live in studio with Steve Gregory. Steve recaps all cases covered in season 2 and answers your calls See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Steve talks with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sergeant Peter Hish about the level of cyber risk for the residents of LA County. Hish also breaks down Cyber Security issues and how investigators track down the ‘bad actors’ from other countries. Hish also talks about how to protect yourself from being a target of cybercriminals, phishing scams, and sextortion. This episode is part of...

Case #1 – The FBI breaks down the case of 21-year-old musician Kevin Harris. Harris had already sold some of his music to hip-hop artist Ice Cube - singers Rhianna and Britney Spears also showed interest in his music. He was gunned down in front of his recording studio in Inglewood. Case #2 – The partially clothed body of Sherri Herrera was found near a freeway onramp east of Palm Springs. She was...