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[Music] when people think of Los Angeles they think of the Blitz the glamor the stardom
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but there's a dark side to Los Angeles my name is Barry Telus and I'm a retired homicide detective from the Los Angeles
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Police Department this is a dangerous dangerous town there are predators con man people who pretend to be someone
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they're not and those are the people who prey on the innocent Christy Giles and Hilda Marcella
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cabrales were two young women in their 20s there were new friends and then together they're sort of getting to know
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each other and enjoy LA and everything it has to offer I'm Mary full juniti and I'm a former
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prosecutor and defense attorney Hilda Marcella cabrales just moved from Mexico and she's loving Los Angeles
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she was looking for the American dream I guess I was Marcella's best friend I think it
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was a dream for her to be there and being able to do what she loved being a architect and an interior designer
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Aloha my wife Christy was a model she was going out for shoots all the time and she traveled the world doing
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that and having amazing experiences she was the most fun and interesting person I'd ever met she didn't live inside
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society's box definitely not she was a very free spirit [Music] they're two gorgeous girls who are not
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only pursuing their careers but also wanting to have fun at the same time and they do what a lot of kids do in
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their 20s they go out [Music] and they party Christy's plan for the evening was to go
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out with some friends and have a fun night I went to go see one of their favorite DJs at this event in East L.A
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seems like a weird place to have a party well it's a warehouse and we have warehouse parties all over Los Angeles
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and they just have music drugs alcohol and people and this is a target Rich environment
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for victims of predators they met a man who passed himself off as a big shot Hollywood producer and that
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just clearly wasn't the case and it was just dumb luck that they met him he doesn't care about other people
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the longer and longer I didn't hear back asking her if she's okay the more worried I got
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we were just waiting for some news any news and at that point like I'm in role panic
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let's say left that party that was the last time their loved ones ever heard from them again
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