The Monster of Atwater Village: The Timothy McGhee Case
A T-shirt police seized from Timothy McGhee in the Arizona desert said, "Fugitive. Can't see me." Back home in Atwater Village, a working-class neighborhood on the LA River, he'd been a heavy kid who came home from school with a bloody nose, and later he was a leader in the Toonerville gang. Police tied him to as many as a dozen killings, and a lot of the people who saw things kept quiet, including a teenager in the LAPD's own Explorer program. Then a cellphone dropped at a shooting scene sent Timothy to a friend named Christina Duran for help, and she ended up giving police a recorded statement. This episode follows the manhunt that ended with a tip from a desert newspaper reader, and a juror whose doubts about the witnesses got him pulled off the jury.
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