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Hydrated creek listeners, i'm investigative journalist then a dare a shang continues to dig into the story of what really happened to Justin gains and you wait from to bring you updates on his still ongoing investigation. There's another case I think you may be interested in learning about. In the newest season of my show, strange land, I partner with fellow pod casters.
May I tow to look at a case where stories around what may have happened are really all that we have. It's a case where we try to connect the dots between pieces that just don't fit a case. That's that several people wondering what really happened.
In one thousand nine ninety six, an academy award winning actor was gunned down in an ali and allies chinatown. But this wasn't a typical murder. The victim was hang, nor just an Oscar ning actor, also a political activist and refugee from cambodia.
Three teenage game members were convicted and sentenced two decades in prison for the murder yet to the state. The cambodian community and many other people remain completely unconvinced of the boy's guilt because several clues left to the scene don't square with the L. P.
D. Story that this was a robbery gone wrong. Like, for example, thousands of dollars in cash found on nore after he was killed. There is that north murder may have been a political hit ordered from halfway around the world, along side claims so called witnesses that investigators course their testimonies.
It's LED many to believe that there's more to this story and has left me wondering if the L A P, D really got the right guys, or if justice was lost in translation. Listen to the trailer for strange land season three, the killing fields of value, and then follow and listen the strAngely land, whatever you listen to our guests. On the night of february twenty fifth nineteen ninety six, in the chinatown neighborhood of los Angeles, celebrations from the lunar new year were just wrapping up. There was a sunday, and one of that winters called this nights .
at around eight forty five P.
M, A cambodian refugee named hang nor holding into his car port in chinatown and was shot dead as he exited the car.
In the nineties, los Angeles had a reputation for street violence, but this was different.
the first stories where Oscar winner slain, I mean, IT. We'd never have gotten that kind of attention if IT was just random killing on the street.
He won an academy award portraying horse of his native country, and then he is murdered.
He survived the killing fields of cambodia, only to be killed in los Angeles, killing fields.
But he charged three asian teenagers from neighbors od gang. They say the boy shot hang or in a robbery gone wrong.
but the teams consistently maintain their innocence. And many people in the legal community and the cambodian community think the L. P. D. Got the wrong.
The police officers had a script. The script was that this was a gun related crime.
I remember he is telling me that those three people had got into jail, they didn't do, and they didn't commit the crime.
So we start looking into the murder ourselves and discover that it's hardly the open in short case. The police want us to think, IT is.
if this is truly a robbery, why did they .
not take .
hanging north wallet.
full cash and IT turns out he had more than his share of enemies.
Just wouldn't surprise me if he had at least indirectly set off a chain of events that LED to his murder. He pissed off a lot of people.
This case is special. Almost everyone, the victim, the suspect and many of the witnesses, were traumatize refugees from southeast dasia. So was justice lost in translation?
And they rushed to solve hang norse murder. Did the lapd put away three innocent men? And if so, did commit this crime. That's what we want to find out. I am investigative journalist benadir.
and i'm author in pod caster. May is south from .
audio check and western sound. This is a strange land. Season three, the killing fields of that.
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he knows what he did.
what they all did.
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common will get.
Them strange land season three comes out August twenty third.
