Hollywood agent’s son arrested after woman’s torso found in

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A Los Angeles man and son of a once-powerful Hollywood agent has been arrested in connection to a murder after a woman’s torso was found in a dumpster.

Samuel Haskell, 35, was identified as a suspect by the Los Angeles Police Department after authorities searched and processed the residence connected to the dismembered body of the woman killed.

Police have yet to identify the woman but believe it could be Mr Haskell’s wife, Mei Li Haskell. She and her parents, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li, have been missing from the residence they shared with Mr Haskell in Tarzana.

Mr Haskell was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday and is currently being held on a $2m bond.

He is also the son of the Hollywood agent Sam Haskell Sr who represented Dolly Parton, Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney, Ray Romano and more before retiring in 2005, according to TMZ.


<p>Mei Li Haskell, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li have been missing </p>

Mei Li Haskell, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li have been missing
(Los Angeles Police Department)

The investigation began on Tuesday after a witness reported what appeared to be body parts stuffed into bags outside of the Haskell’s home. However, when police arrived at the scene the bags were gone.

Then on Wednesday, an individual looking through the dumpster bins in an Encino strip mall discovered the woman’s torso in a duffel bag in the dumpster – just five miles from the Haskell’s home, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Security footage from the area led investigators back to the Haskell home where they discovered other evidence linking Mr Haskell to the dismembered body.

Mr Haskell shared the residence with his wife and their three children in addition to his in-laws, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The couple’s three young children have been located and are currently in the care of other family members.

Court records obtained by the Los Angeles Times show that Mr Haskell was arrested and charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon in 2008. He pleaded no contest to battery and was given three years probation in 2010.

Police are currently asking anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Mr Li, Ms Wang, Ms Haskell to contact the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division, Homicide Special Section.


www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/murder-arrest-hollywood-torso-dumpster-b2445317.html

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Why are agent’s kids such psychopaths? There was the one who drove their car into people and the other who did the mass shooting in Santa Barbara.

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But wait!  It gets even worse.....

www.thedailybeast.com/workers-say-murder-suspect-samuel-haskell-hired-them-to-dump-body-parts-in-los-angeles


The son of an ex-Hollywood agent—charged with a woman’s murder after her dismembered torso was found in a dumpster Wednesday—apparently hired a group of workers to haul her body parts in trash bags from his Los Angeles area home.



“I started seeing body parts, a belly button,” one of the day laborers told NBC Los Angeles. “I was astonished. Of course, I felt bad. We had been tricked.”

The workers told the local TV station that the alleged killer, 35-year-old Samuel Haskell Jr., paid them $500 to remove three large trash bags from his house in Tarzana—where police say Haskell lived with his wife, Mei, who is believed to be his victim, and her parents, Gaoshan Li, 72, and YanXiang Wang, 64, who are also missing.



When Haskell enlisted the crew on Tuesday, he told them the bags were filled with rocks; once they lifted the items, however, they said it seemed like meat was inside the 50-pound bags, which they described as soft and soggy.



“When we picked up the bags, we could tell they weren’t rocks,” the worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said in Spanish.



Concerned that something wasn’t right about the scrap removal, the men pulled their truck over about a block away from the Haskell residence and peered inside the bags.



They returned to Haskell’s home to dump the bags in the driveway and return the money, NBC reported, adding that, “The worker said they told Haskell they didn’t want to be involved, and Haskell tried to pass the body parts off as Halloween props.”



“God was watching over us,” the hired hand said, adding that the men feared for their lives.