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The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during a traffic stop and the subsequent murder of one of the officers.
Gregory James Kading (born May 1, 1963) is an American author and former Los Angeles Police Department detective best known for working on a multi law-enforcement task force that investigated the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls in the mid-2000s. Many credit Kading and his LAPD task force for the 2023 arrest of Duane ‘Keefe D ...
A murder book featured heavily in the plot of the 2006/2008 ABC miniseries Day Break. Episode 387–1716 of the TV series Law & Order is titled "Murder Book" (2007). [1] Murder Book (2014–2016) is an American television series on the Investigation Discovery channel. [2] [3]
According to Miles Corwin, who spent a year embedded with the LAPD while writing his book Homicide Special, Leasure was described by LAPD officers as "the most corrupt cop in L.A." [20] Leasure is the subject of Edward Humes' 1992 book Murderer with a Badge. [21]
Russell Wayne Poole (November 29, 1956 – August 19, 2015) was a Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), a rapper also known as Biggie Smalls. Poole also investigated the killing of LAPD Officer Kevin Gaines by LAPD Officer Frank Lyga on March 18, 1997. After retiring ...
A state parole panel reversed an earlier decision that could have freed former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus from a life sentence for a 1986 murder that went unsolved for years.
John Patrick St. John (February 18, 1918 – May 3, 1995), better known as "Jigsaw John", was an American police officer and Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, renowned for his investigations of many of Los Angeles's highest-profile murder cases.
An LAPD spokesperson confirmed that the department has launched an internal affairs investigation involving Mission Division Gang Enforcement Detail officers, and said the probe involved executing ...