Today the LAPD's Media Relations office put to rest a blog rumor that we pointed to Monday:
A reader at Jim Bursch's West L.A. Online had emailed him to say that the body of a homeless woman found on Speedway in Venice last week was the latest in a string of a dozen murders of homeless women "in the last few years."
I emailed the LAPD to look into it, and just got a call from Officer April Harding of the department's Media Relations office, who said Venice Homicide has had only the one case referred to here. "If there had been a series of homicides, we would have put out a press release asking for the public's help," she said.
Posted by: Mack_Reed on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 02:23 PM
