The search is on for a missing Los Angeles woman and her parents after her husband was arrested on suspicion of murder after a body part was found in a dumpster in back to their home. 35-year-old Samuel Haskell is in custody after someone looking through a dumpster found a bag containing an unidentified female torso, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Investigators say they tracked the headless torso back to the home Haskell shared with his 37-year-old wife Mei Li and her parents Gaoshan Li and Yanxiang Wang. When officers went to the home, police say they
discovered blood and other evidence inside the residence, CNN affiliate KABC reported. Samuel Haskell is being held on $2,000,000 bail, police said. The couple's three childrenn are being cared for by family members, according to police.
Haskell is the son of Emmy-winning producer and Hollywood agent Sam Haskell, who has served as an agent for Kathie Lee Gifford, Whoopi Goldberg, Dolly Parton, George Clooney and others.
Investigators told KABC that no additional body parts beyond the
torso have been discovered and that DNA results from the torso are
pending, but Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Scot Williams said the
torso is presumed to be Mei Li Haskell, the Los Angeles Times reports.
“Typically if someone, a murder suspect, is dismembering a body, it’s to delay identification,” LAPD Detective Efren Gutierrez told CNN affiliate KCBS Wednesday. “So that by implication would mean that they may have been known to each other.”
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