By Tori Richards
October 5, 2006
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Crime Library) — The dusty, dilapidated abandoned warehouse where Emmery Munoz's body lay was a place she had visited before.
It was home to underground rave parties where teens and 20-somethings find an abundance of alcohol, drugs, loud music and sometimes violence. It was also the world Emmery inhabited on Friday and Saturday nights and one that likely contributed to her death, police theorize.
Detectives say evidence points to participants in the underground party scene, people who never would've entered Emmery's personal orbit if she'd just been at a friend's house or hanging out at the movies like she told her mother.
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| Emmery Munoz (r) and friend |
Instead, the 14-year-old was clubbing as if she were a decade older as a member of the party crew called "Vicious Ladies," according to police.
"This group is the hardcore party animal type that always had to be in the mix of these underground parties, that's the kind of group she was a part of," said Los Angeles police Detective Joe Preciado, who is investigating Emmery's murder.
The girl disappeared Jan. 20 and her body was found five days later. She had been strangled with a ligature.
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