There's a Monty Python skit buried in this tale
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Out of tragedy, farce
Some guy murders his wife, the mother of the couple’s two children, and her parents; chops them up; puts them in garbage bags, and calls in the trash haulers. And then this horrible story veers into hilarity, as the garbage men catch on and drive in person to police headquarters to try to report their gruesome discovery.
“Hello, Mr. State Policeman: a homeowner has just tried to trick us into taking away many bags of human body parts, and we think that a crime may have been committed.”
“Sorry, sir, but unless it happened on the freeway, that’s not our job. Go report it to the local police.”
(minutes later)
“Good afternoon, Mr. Local Policeman: a homeowner has just tried to trick us into taking away many bags of human body parts, and we think that a crime may have been committed.”
“Meh — sorry, not my job; call 911, maybe someone there will give a fuck.”
The Daily Mail takes it from there:
LAPD is questioning why the Spanish-speaking laborers who became entangled in the case were apparently redirected and turned away from two police stations when they tried to report the bags of body parts.
Police Chief Michel Moore said he couldn't think of any valid reason why cops at the stations would not have taken their reports, as the department investigates potential failings.
The Spanish-speaking laborers said Haskell tried to trick them into removing the 50-pound sacks from his Tarzana home on November 7, after being told they were full of rocks and trash.
'When we picked up the bags, we could tell they weren't rocks,' one of the workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told NBC Log Angeles in Spanish.
The men said the bags felt soft and soggy like meat as they loaded them into their pickup truck, and each weighed around 50 pounds. This aroused their suspicions, so they parked up and took a look inside the bags.
'I started seeing body parts, a belly button,' the worker said. 'I was astonished. Of course, I felt bad. We had been tricked.'
The laborers said they drove back to Haskell's home on Coldstream Terrace in Tarzana, about 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles, left the bags on his driveway and returned the money.
They said they told Haskell they didn't want to be involved - and he tried to pass the body parts off as Halloween props.
The laborers immediately made a beeline for the nearest police station - the California Highway Patrol station on De Soto Avenue in Woodland Hills - where officers redirected them to the LAPD.
…. [So then they drove to] LAPD's Topanga Station - but the station officer said he didn't understand Spanish, advising them to leave and call 911 from the courtyard.
Officers were eventually dispatched to look for the body bags but came back empty-handed - until a dismembered torso, believed to belong to Mei, was discovered in a dumpster miles away the next day.
“Well, if he’d brought us that belly button, maybe we would have believed him, but otherwise, hey – you know how many people show up here every day, claiming they’ve witnessed a murder? We’d never get any sleep, we acted on every whacko’s tip that comes in.”
