LAPD Officer Dives into La Brea Tar Pit for Murder Case

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Originally Posted by vienna

This happened a little while back, but it is interesting. I know there are a few LEOs in Subsim; I doubt if any had to do what this officer had to in order to retrieve evidence...

For those unfamiliar with the La Brea Tar Pits, they are a large series of naturally occurring tar pools in the middle of a park in one of the most fasionable areas of Los Angeles. The pools are the site of various fossil digs and have produced a large number of fossil finds. The entire area of the park and beyond used to be an oil field in the early 1900s and tar, various noxious gases, and other ooze often bubbles to the suface of the streets and sidewalks in the area. Several years back, an accumulation of gasses from underground ignited in the basement of a clothing store and went off with a very loud explosion. Fortunately, and miraculously, no one was hurt, but there were plumes of flames burning from cracks in the sidewalk and streets as fara as a block away.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/lapd-office...ry?id=19350071

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To help bring a murder to justice and to help bring some form of closure to the victims family an good law officer would go to such measures.