Think it through. If the daughters left January 13th and the ex had been arguing for 2 weeks, they knew in December BEFORE the rent was due. And the ex has a lawyer named Nord. He must have gotten into it too. Please, read the article. This Santa murder was all over the news, are you saying that you honestly believe it escaped the landlord and management company’s notice?
I'm saying that apartment buildings in southern Califonia tend to be operated by management companies who have thousands of tenants. And while everyone might have been aware of the story, they aren't as likely to have said to themselves "I wonder if the murdered woman was one of our thousands of tenants" any more than I looked up her name in my company phone directory to see if she worked there. Run an Anywho search on Alicia Ortiz" in California. The answer you get back is
Unable to return results...Reason: Too many listings were found.
We searched on alicia ortiz in CA which exceeded the maximum number of listings to display.
I've dealt with this stuff, and the way these buildings are run is very cut-and-dried--if the rent isn't collected by a certain date, the three-day notice is issued automatically, one of scores they probably issued the same day.
Same deal with the "unsufficient notice to vacate." It's not personal, it's just another name on the list for someone in a cubicle who has a stack of similar documents to process the same day.