By Tori Richards
October 3, 2006
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Crime Library) — Marisol Street is the type of place you wouldn't want to be after dark unless you were a Hollywood producer filming an episode of "The Twilight Zone."
About a dozen concrete or corrugated metal warehouses lined with barbed wire border the trash-strewn street. At nightfall the deserted area is plunged into darkness except for the moon and a lone street lamp a few blocks away. An occasional homeless person pushes a shopping cart, no doubt hoping to avoid gang members who have adorned the gloomy walls with their graffiti.
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If you go to the end of the street, you'll find a dilapidated abandoned metal warehouse with a metal gate where a "for rent" sign is posted. Inside, a loading dock and staging area are coated by decades of soot and muck. Metal halogen lamps and exposed wiring hang from the uncovered ceiling. The area branches off with three pitch black doorless rooms that are encased with about 40 years worth of grime.
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It was here that someone dumped 14-year-old Emmery Munoz's body after she had been strangled with a ligature. And if it weren't for the property owner sending over an employee to collect some wood stored there, who knows how long Emmery's body would have gone undetected.
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| Emmery Munoz |
"I'm so glad her grandparents didn't see this, I don't think they would be able to handle it," said Sylvia Ascencio, a cousin to Emmery's mother. "This is no place for kids to be, especially at night."
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