Posted on 07/27/2013 3:31:30 PM PDT by LyinLibs
VIDEO footage from Pizzeria Mozza, which is located at Melrose and Highland, shows the final moments before journalist Michael Hastings' Mercedes Benz exploded into flames.
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They cremated him without family signing forms. Only done if body is NOT identified. They said FBI identified him through his finger prints. If OSU was so badly burned that they finished the cremation. How could there have been finger prints and why did the FBI have them handy ?
Yes. They burned up his body, and mailed the ashcan to his family after they told the government to NOT burn his body.
The LA Coroner’s personal life insurance policy just got 100x more expensive.
It’s amazing lately with all the dead people who get cremated against family wishes. ST6 was also cremated against family wishes and religious beliefs.
Maybe he was taking side and back streets for a reason.
I hadn’t heard that one. Linky?
What exploded? The center fuel tank. Didn’t you get the memo?
Or was ditching someone following him. Or a number of reasons. If we knew the last half dozen people he text or called, we might know where he was headed. It’d be interesting to know if his phone service still has a record of the last half or dozen communications. Someone knows where he was headed and why.
I've driven from Hollywood to LAX hundreds of times. Anyone who grew up in L.A. proper knows that Hastings' route to LAX via Highland Avenue is one of the most well worn routes there is.
Highland Ave south
La Brea south (left at the fork)
Stocker west (right)
La Cienega south (left)
La Tijera south (right at the fork)
Airport Blvd south (left)
Century Blvd west (right) into LAX
Going your route, you'd have to get off the Harbor freeway at Century and drive miles across South Central to get to LAX (the 110 doesn't drop you right at LAX). Or, you'd have to go all the way down to the 105 and take that west to the airport zone. Lots faster to go the old Angeleno route, in my opinion.
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I guess that’s why we call them family ‘wishes’ instead of family ‘instructions’.
what are the arrows pointing at?
Anybody thought to check to see if he was booked? Highly unlikely that he managed to book a flight under an alias.
Those are usually followd by LEO’s and coroners though. Unless there’s some communicable disease.
Rodeo Road runs east and west. Rodeo Drive runs north and south, but only in Beverly Hills.
You may be thinking of La Cienega.
How do we check that?
Perhaps somebody at the airline knows, but doesn’t want to get murdered.
Also, if he was fleeing FBI, he wouldn’t have booked in advance. He would’ve gotten to LAX, asked “What’s your next flight to London or Paris?” and bought the ticket at the counter.
After he got to Europe he could hop whatever shorter flight to meet Wikileaks or whoever.
Was he driving a Gremlin?
Anyone who's really familiar with L.A. city streets and freeways might elect to take Highland/La Brea/La Cienega to get to LAX, rather than the freeways, if they're coming from Hollywood.
I spent a lot of years as a courier driver in L.A., and that was every driver's preferred route, if starting from Hollywood.
I can’t wait for the CIA animation showing the Mercedes “splitting into 2 pieces, gaining 3000 feet of altitude, then plummeting back to earth.”
Don’t know about LAX but of the three airports with jet service that I’d use, two of which are hubs, the idea of there being an open seat on a flight at the last minute is not a good one. Flights have been cut, fewer choices of arrival and departure, for flights remaining planes are packed. Standby might get you on, might not.
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