March 22, 2023 • 37 mins
For many Latinx kids in the ‘00s, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves as they came of age in the grit and glitter of Los Angeles. A space to make friends, forget about your problems and dance the night away. But the scene wasn’t always physically safe. There were shootings and police raids. Many adults saw the scene as gang-adjacent and the media fueled negative stereotypes of kids who were out of control. One of the teens who got caught in that easy narrative was Emmery Muñoz, after she was murdered in 2006.
Host Janice Llamoca goes on a Y2K-filled journey back in time to her own party crew days to find out what this scene meant for teens like her and Emmery, and why – to this day – Emmery’s case remains unsolved. From IHeart, VICE and LAist Studios as part of the My Cultura Podcast Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're on what March April me June, so we're going
on the fourth month of quarantine of the pandemic. I'm
an audio journalist and a few years ago I decided
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to do this assignment with some friends. It was a
kind of assignment where we had to turn around a
story in twenty four hours. We were talking on the phone,
just spit bawling ideas and just overall talking about how
we were feeling in twenty twenty. I was only recording
my side of the conversation, so all you hear on
the tape is me. And there's one thing I haven't
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done in so long that I completely miss and that's dancing.
Like I have moved in this like grinding dancing way,
which sounds really we were to say out loud, and
then one of the people I'm talking to brought something
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up I had mentioned in passing about my time and
a party crew. I haven't really talked a lot about it.
When I do talk about it, it's usually like a
ha ha, I was part of a part of this
party crew, haha, Like you know, we had little signs
and stuff like that, But it doesn't really ever get
deep where I'm talking about how dangerous it was. When
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I was a teen in the mid two thousands, I
was part of a party scene. A bunch of my
girlfriends and I we formed a group and we called
ourselves a party crew. The party crew scene was all
underground parties. We were party in backyards and warehouses, setting
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up a dance floor wherever we could. And what made
it unique is that it wasn't just me and my
friends who were into this. There were hundreds, maybe thousands
of mostly Latin X teens all across LA in the scene,
in places like La South Central and the Sangiarbo Valley
where I grew up. My parents are both from Peru.
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They came to the US in the mid eighties, and
growing up we had some rules. As a student, my
parents had high expectations of me, no bad grades, nothing
below a bee. And when I started high school, I
had a curfew. I had to be home by nine.
I know, I know, those are typical rules for a
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lot of kids, especially for kids of immigrants, but when
you're the oldest and the first in your family born
in this country, the stakes automatically feel higher. And in
my house it felt like there was this other extra layer.
My mom is religious. She grew up evangelical as a
teen in Peru, so when it was time to raise me,
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she raised me the only way she knew. Church every
Sunday was a given, But there was also stuff like
no dancing, no dating, no trigger treating on Halloween. It
was a whole thing. But I knew that as long
as I stayed out of trouble and followed the rules,
I could fly by as your typical, good church, glowing
daughter of immigrants. But when I found the party crew scene,
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I felt like I was able to become a new
version of myself. It was the one place where I
felt comfortable enough to move my body, let lose and
be wild, free from my parents' rules and expectations. A
safe space that was twenty years ago. And when I
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was talking to my friend about this time, I realized
it was the first time in a long time that
I talked about the party crew scene to someone who
wasn't a part of it. Listening back to myself, I
can hear a kind of hesitation in my voice, I guess,
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and I you know I was going through all that
without telling my parents, like I wasn't telling them I
was going to go see my friend who got shot.
I wasn't telling them that I was doing all these things.
It felt like I was sharing a hazy dream, these
fragments of my past. It's not really a time in
my life that I talk a lot about, because as
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fun as it was, there was also a dark side
to the scene. It's a Saturday night house party and
hont hedon park, strobe lights, color and evening of dancing,
drinking and joke smoking. The intense, I say, is to
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have a good time, but the price for that good
time can often be violent or even death. In an instance,
a party scene can turn into a war zone. These
were the parties that made headlines when something bad happened
and it made us teens who were part of the
party crews seem out of control. The people who throw
these kind of parties are called party crews, but police
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say they're very similar to gangs. I ended up watching
a bunch of old news coverage at the scene, and
it was starting to relive those memories. It was a
time and place I recognized, but it felt like it
only caught one side of the story. An outsider's perspective.
On January twenty fifth, two thousand and six, Emory Munious's
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lifeless body was found nearby this warehouse on Marosou and
Olympic and Boyle Heights, a popular area for underground parties.
And that's when I came across a story about a
teen girl. Her name was Emory Munios. She was killed
in two thousand and six and her case was never solved.
Investigator say an I legal rave party was going on
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at the warehouse on Marosols for the night she was killed.
The teenager was killed after tending one of those parties.
She wasn't an all girl party crew like I was
around the same time that I was going out. Her killing,
they think she was strangled. Now tied to the world
of illegal underground parties, learning about Emery immediately, it felt
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so personal to me. It was hard to hear about
a teen girl who didn't make it out of the scene.
She was only a few years younger than me, growing
up a few cities away from me. I wondered, could
I have bumped into her at a party. I kept
thinking about her case. I couldn't get it out of
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my head, the idea that maybe it was pure luck
that something didn't happen to me back then, and the
fact that nearly two decades later, still nobody knew what
really happened to her. I needed to find out more.
So I started to dig into her story, and doing
that would start me on a journey to unpack that
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time in my life. I joined a party crew of
fifteen and now as an adult, I see it in
a different light, and I want to know what does
it mean when you're safe space isn't actually safe from
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ihearts Michael Slura, Podcast Network, Vice and Elia Studios. This
is Party Crews, the Untold Story, a look back at
the scene that I came of agent and an unsolved
murder that is forever tied to it. I'm Jensemoka. I
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knew I needed to start somewhere to look into Emery's case,
so I started looking for the names I found in
the coverage around her murder. So I think we have
found Jemios who is Emory's father? Um so let me
give him a call. All uh Mari Muno, No no no, no, no? Okay, alkay,
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So I'm calling who I think could be Cherry, one
of the heads of Vicious Ladies at that time. Okay,
wish me luck. Sorry, And there is not enough to
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has been restricted or he is unavailable work. Let's try
the last number that I have on this list. He
thank yourself if you're missing. Hi, Becky, this is Janice Um.
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I'm a reporter producer with Fast News. I actually got
your contact your number from Crystal. Still get nervous every
time I really have a voicemail. For some reason, I
look forward to speaking with you. Oh there's It took
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me months, but I found Emory's aunt, Becky Harrow and
her sister Crystal Okay. After a few long conversations on
the phone, they agree to meet me at a halfway point.
We met inside a hotel in Pomona in a small
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conference room. I came with free water bottles and a
jar of peppermints, a plus hospitality. Becky and Crystal were
both warm and friendly. They're both batite with big brown eyes,
just like Emory in the pictures I've seen of her.
The three of us sat at the end of a
long table and talked for hours, and I not only
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had it for a brief moment of time, but in
those six years she'd taught me basically everything you would
expect from a big sister. That's Crystal she was six
when her sister went missing. I learned that Emery was
the oldest of three siblings, one brother and one little sister, Crystal.
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I had my bodyguard it. What weighs did she protect? You? Gone?
Every way imaginable. Um. One thing I really remember is
my mom would always yell at me because I was
a little brown and knows a little and my sister
she would just jump in ya, my sister, do ya?
My sister or my brother would try to plunk on me.
She would end up like punking on him. Every way,
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anything that I wanted she got for meum, toys, candies,
whatever it was she would get from me. Our mom
was always, you know, mentally there. She was physically there,
she wasn't always mentally there. So my sister took on
a very big role and she was always making sure
I was fed, bathed, clothed, everything. She took care of me.
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I'm the eldest kid in my family too, so I
know it comes with a lot of responsibility. Emory's mom's
family is Mexican American. They're an immigrant households like mine.
As a teen, sometimes you take for granted how much
influence you have of your siblings how a small gesture
can create a lasting impact. They used to go take
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like those two thousand pictures, the star shots. Yeah yeah,
actually I found one on my phone mother day. I
me an Emory one. I think I was like four.
She had to be like twelve THIRTYO star shots, or
like these wallet sized pictures you would take with your
best friend, your boyfriend, or your little sister. You would
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show up with your freshly plucked brows and best glossy
lip to a small photo studio inside the mall, posed
in front of an airbrushed backdrop and wait for like
an hour to get your pictures printed. Very nineties, very
two thousands. One of Crystal's few mementos of her sister
Emory is a star shot they took together. That's the
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background of the one that you are. It's like blue
with stars and stairs. I love it. They're gonna show you.
Oh my god, let's describe it. Describe it for me.
So there's a there's a blue background, there's stairs, and
we're supposed to be sitting on the stairs. My sister,
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I think, was going through an eyebrow crisis at this
time and got a little too card away with the Tweezers,
and she had on a white shirt um kind of
like the three fourth quarters um sleeve in the picture
Emory House. Her long brown hair pulled back, half up,
half down, and her mouth is closed with a soft smile.
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It's like her signature smile. I've seen it in a
lot of pictures of her as a teen. She's holding me,
she's hugging me. I was I think four right here.
I have on a blue little sweater that has fluff
around the neck. Because two thousands baby in the prime.
Back then, star shots brought friendships and relationships to a
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new level. I met, you were close, and the world
was going to see it. That was our very first picture.
I don't remember that day, but I feel super connected
to the day. Crystal was in her early twenties, and
every story she shared her her sister peeled back a
layer of emory that I couldn't find in the news coverage.
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She was always dancing, no matter what the song was,
she was always dancing, and I remember she would try
to teach me and I was just right there like
a little four year old, didn't know what the heck
I was doing. Crystal shared one of her earliest memories
of Emory growing up in their home on one of
the highest hills in city terror Us. I think we
lived at the top of the highest hill because we
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lived on three and so we lived right on the top.
But I remembers dancing like outside. We had like the
biggest like garden ever, a bunch of grass, a bunch
of flowers. We could just be dancing, and she loved dancing.
That's Becky Harrow, Emrie's aunt and godmother, her Nina. That summer,
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I wrote a letter to the family, including Emory's mother Maria,
but she didn't respond to us at first. However, her
sister Becky, who over the years has been sort of
a spokesperson for the family regarding Emory's case, she did
get back to us. She let her sister know that
she was talking to us. Used to tell me I
was like her second mom. Becky tells me Emory was
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her informal dance coach. She actually told me to lift feet.
I remember her say, well, you're gonna do dance like
the sister Tecas that one make it look sexy because
you had to spread them a little bit and move
your hips side to side, and she will go behind me.
I will be cooking or doing something, and then she said, aw,
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you're practicing your hips. And I just look at her
and laugh. And then she will go behind me and
then she will move my hips. She will start cracking up.
She said that I was like a stick it because
you need to like relax, you go relax both those hips.
Emory with her family was playful. She felt comfortable enough
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to let loose and be silly. The last time I
saw her was Christmas Day and I just remember her
going by, Nina, see you later, and I said, by sweetie,
and she flew a kiss, a kiss, and that's my
last memory. And I can still see it here. It's
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a matter of fact. She'd want me a little note
that day before I went home. This this is a
piece of favor for anybody, but it's tressure for me.
Becky pulls out a little blue post it note that
she's been carrying with her for over a decade. Am
I reading it to me to Minina in Uncle Ron,
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Merry Christmas. I love you guys with all my heart, Emory.
That was the last time Becky saw her. To learn
more about Emory's last days, I talked to the friends
she was with before she went missing. That's after the break. Hello.
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Hi Alejandra. This is Alejandra. She was one of Emory's
friends in high school. Hi is this Janice. We have
some time to talk right now? Yeah? I do. I
just if I talk a bit as though. It's just
because I got my wisdom taken out this morning. Oh
my god. Yeah, but I'm okay to talk. Thank you
for talking to me. Well, well, you're a little swollen.
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I had mine taken out like years ago, and I
was like chipmunk cheeks forever. Yeah. Oh, I am right now,
but this will distract me. After our initial phone call,
I met up with Alejandra and her family home in
Bell Gardens, a few miles from where she grew up.
I grew up in East Lake, so that's how I
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met Emory. I was there up until I was fifteen,
and one of the reasons why we moved is because
of what happened with Emory. It took a minute for
Emory and Alejandra to get close. He said he didn't
get along at the beginning. Well she didn't like me,
she yeah, she didn't mike me. She was so she
was safe. In the fall of two thousand and five.
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She and Emory were the new kids together freshman at
Francisco Bravo High School. I don't know why she didn't
like me, but we had a pe class and home
room together, and she had a group of friends and
I had my group of friends. And you know, I
would hear things like, oh, she's talking shit about you,
or she said this, she said that. So one day
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after school, she was standing outside outside the school and
I came up to her and I was like, hey,
you know, why are you talking shit? And then she's like,
do you want to walk home while we talk about it?
And I was like, yeah, sure. Emory was on her
way to a football game at Wilson High School, a
rival high school in East LA, so she invited me.
It just happened so fast, and that was it. They
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became friends. That followed to the five It was a
Lejandra and Emory together all the time, every day after school.
I don't know why that memory always comes to my mind,
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but I remember, like, um, the smell of Halloween during
like during those years. I don't know why. I can't
describe it, but every time I go outside, I'm like,
oh my god, it smells like you still or smells
like Halloween. I personally loved Easta like you know. My
parents didn't, um. They thought it was pretty dangerous. But
we had all our friends living in the area, so
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we could walk to each other's house. Emory lived pretty
far from me, but we would still do the walk
like we would. Um. I don't know if we knew
where she lived, but I lived cy Terrorists, that city terrists,
and I lived like in Boyle Heights. So but we
would walk over to each other's house. Yeah, no, no,
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we would. I would run because my parents didn't know
where I was at, so I would be like, oh,
I'm gonna go with my friend down the street, but
really I would walk all the way over there. How
would you describe her personality? Just very happy, very bubbly,
and she was so silly, like she would always try
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to make jokes. She loved singing and dancing. She loved
Mariah Carey, so I remember her always singing and writing
the lyrics down. And one of the things I remember
the most is her laugh like it was just so conpegious.
She would crack up every single time. Alejandra and Emrie
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wrote letters to each other and left them in each
other's lockers. They wrote about boys, their day, anything and everything,
and when they hung out, they danced around their rooms
and listened to Mariah Carey's entire catalog. I can only
imagine them harmonizing too. We belong together. There was a
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few people that, like I said, she would be silly with.
She would around with, but if you don't really know her,
she wouldn't make the effort to really talk to you.
And I think that's why a lot of girls used
to think she was conceited or you know, try to
fight her, because they didn't really know her. She was
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in her own little world, like she was serious, she
didn't care what other people thought. You know, she wasn't
trying to be everyone's friend. There's just times where girls
would talk shit and she would get crazy. You know.
One time we were at a fair and she had
this boyfriend and I guess he was with another girl
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at the fair or something like that. So we actually
left the fair and then she was like, oh, let's
pass by, you know, let's pass by his house. And
at the same time we saw them going in, the
girl and him and she got out of the car
and she was just trying to fight her and just
get crazy. I think we're just like figure bring it
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out kids in ours, like your whole world revolved around Yeah,
that guy. Sometimes I was so in love with him. Yeah,
she loved him, But were you like, you know, I
didn't really know him. I've seen him a few times,
but he just wasn't someone I wanted to talk to
or you know, be cool with. And and she had
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her own group of friends. Did you ever tell any
the parties with Emory? No. My mom would have never
let me go. So that's why I'm telling you. Like
she would tell me like, oh, I'm gonna go to party.
Do you want to go? But she always knew that
I was I wasn't gonna go. Um, so yeah, I
would just see the pictures. Does she like invite you
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before she goes. Yeah. Yeah, she would let me know
or she would be like she would be like, oh,
come on, we'll tell your mom this or that, you know,
and I'm like, that's not gonna that's not gonna work.
I was so scared. Our parents thought we were going
to because we would album. This is Regina Barenian. She
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knew Emery from the party crew scene, but they also
went way back. Was a childhood friends of mind, growing
up since kindergarten, Like some of the first thing I've
ever experienced were with her, you know, when we went
on our first field trip in school, when we had
our first crushes, our school gaps and stuff. She was smart,
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she didn't kick any ship. She super SAFTI, she land
and everybody liked her. Our mothers were friends when they
were kids. I've known her a very long time. We've
been bonded through our lineage. She lived down the street
from Emory in City Terrorists. Their mothers were friends when
they were growing up. We started to go to slow
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together and then we became really close friends. There was
five of us Me, Emery, Diane, Cynthia and Ashley, so
we were able to have a certain kind of freedom
that other kids didn't have. I mean mom and my
mom lived the same life. Sound Me and Amory became
friends because we're able to bond over the same disconnecting
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that we've had with our mothers. Regina is in her
thirties now and she no longer lives in City Terrace.
She was very straight up with me about that time.
Now when I looked back, like I have an eleven
year old daughter right now. And when I was her age,
I had already smoked weed for the first time. I
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was walking home from school already, like I would never
let her do any of that. Along with a bunch
of neighborhood girls, Regina was in a party crew called
Tempted to Touch. It was fun because I felt like
at that time we were experimenting and nobody was violating
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one another. We all made sure we got home one time,
all looked up for one another. This was the community
thing within the inner city communities that we different because
a lot of people it was part of the culture.
Regina explained to me how she understands the context of
the party crew scene. And you know, it evolved from
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the nineties to two top by having back their bookies,
and then we were the new generation, most of these
kids that are partying and two thousand and one to
two thousand and six, we're the fucking tiers of these
teen moms from the nineties, like you know, So I
think that should be highlighted because people have a lot understanding.
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A few months before Emory died, Regina and Emory had
a falling out. Emory had been hanging out with new friends,
the Girls and the Vicious Ladies Crew, and there was
some teaen drama, but their family connection ultimately kept their bond.
My mom made me say sorry to her after she
found out what had happened, because you know, she's like,
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what the fuck. I've been knowing her mom before you
guys are even born. You know, like, I don't care
about your little girl cat drama. So yeah, I had
apologized to her. We were like settled with our little scuffle,
and then she went missing. We were all fourteen year old,
the girls walking down city terrorist. I could have been
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any one of us, you know. You know, what do
you remember about the week that Emory went missing? I
remember that day she came to school really pissed off
because of her mom. This is Alejandra, her high school friend. Again.
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She remembers that the last day she saw Emory, Emory
was mad at her mom, and I remember she was
just talking shit like her mom had got in mad
at her. Because I don't I don't really know what happened,
but I know she was mad at her over like
getting ready or something like that, and so she was
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really upset. That morning, Alejandra and Emory had plans to go,
so they planned to go shopping to pick out outfits
after school. But that same day, my mom called me
and told me that I couldn't stay because I had
to go to the dentist. So I was like, okay,
you know, I'll call you later. So the next day,
on Saturday, I called her and her mom was like,
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I don't know where she's at. According to Emory's mom,
Emory had left the house that Friday afternoon to go
to a friend's house. Emory's mom called Emory that night,
but she didn't pick up. At that point, I was
just like, dam she went somewhere and then tell me
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like that's messed up. Remember, Emory would normally tell a
hand about the parties even if she couldn't go, just
to keep her in the loop, so it seemed weird
to her. The next day, Saturday, Emery's mom and aunt Becky,
went to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department station in
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East LA to file a missing person's report. And they
said how long how she's been missing? And they said,
you know, I hadn't been twenty four hours. And then
I said, I'm the first forty eight hours. Some most
critical ones and right away. They said that if she
was twelve, then they will look for her, but once
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you're a teenager, they don't. You have to wait for
forty eight hours. We reached out to the Sheriff's department
about this, but they declined to comment. They did confirm
that by law, the Sheriff's department is supposed to take
missing person's reports right away. There is no waiting period.
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So I made a fuss over it, so they did
take a report from us. Days passed and still no
one had heard from Emory. Her friends and family put
up missing person flyers all over, using her school portrait
as a photo. I stayed after school and I remember
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putting up the last poster and I got like this
really horrible feeling. It was a Wednesday, January twenty fifth,
six days since Emory went missing, and I left. It
was after school, was like around five. I left, and
when I got home, my friend called me and she
was like, I just saw the cops like at the school,
and I heard what happened. So I ran back and
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that's when they told me that they had found her.
Emory's sister, Crystal, also remembers that day. It was just
it was it's a very vivid timeline that seems that
it went on forever end ever, but like there's so
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little memories actually like pulled out of it. It just
feels like it was ever lasting. Like nothing felt, nothing
felt right. Like I said, everything felt super gloomy. Everything
was like when I picture all this, I picture just
gray clouds in the sky. It was probably like the
sunniest day in January, but I picture clouds. It was.
It was a hard I mean till this day, it's hard,
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but that that time was it was so off, so dark.
Emory's body was found at a warehouse and boiled Heights,
a few miles away from her home. LPD described the
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warehouse as a place where teens would gather to throw parties. Immediately,
it was assumed that she must have been at a
party that night she went missing, or that someone from
the party crew scene knew something. When we found out
that they found her in a warehouse, supposedly that's where
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parties have been helped. But that doesn't connect Emory to
a certain party that night or fire party, or the
reason why she got killed. They're trying to connect two
things that don't go together. This is Regina Emory's childhood
friend again. I'll tell you right now, Emory is no
fucking word that she would leave to the house going
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to go to a fire party with no bag, no backpack.
She's not going in a kinker about the letter with
tennis shoes. That was not how we went. I feel
like when I see her story, it's I feel like
it's misdirected for sure, Like, yes, Emory was a teenager
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going to a fire party, but how do you not
know some serial killer freaking picked her up and just
dumped her body there out of coincidence. I just don't
like how her just put out there, you know, like
it's beautiful fourteen year old girl missing and going for
a fire party and she never came come. So like
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it's a good storyline, but it doesn't get closure to
her family, Like Regina says, it's a good storyline, but
how much of it is true? So that's what I
want to find out. And I'm going to be real
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with you. I know that when you hear Unsolved Murder,
you immediately think, okay, true crime podcast, that this is
going to all be about finding the person who did
this to her. And yes, we will get into her case,
from the investigation into her death and the mysteries that
remained around it. When I got to the scene that
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I knew that I knew she had been dead for
a while, and it appeared to me that she didn't
die there. To the way in which your case co
opted by a local politician. But we have to put
everyone at notice that these parties may it can't be
dangerous and the city should be doing more to stop
these To how we were targeted by police who believe
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the party crew scene was a threat and mostly gang members.
You started off as the normal raiding the party with
one cop car or sometimes ten or fifteen cop cars
blocking off the street, helicopter showing up and flashing everybody.
It is a La City gang that started off as
a tag banging gang. They are morphing into a traditional
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Hispanic turf gang. But in Emory's case, I also see
another question that is important to explore. Why did party
crews get blamed for her death? And what does that
say about us? It's easy to forget that Emery and
I were just kids navigating through a world that wasn't
made for us. We built a being shiny and fun,
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a world of our own In the next episode, I
look back at my own teenage yeers to understand the
thrill of the party crew scene. I had friends catching
me through my window to sneak out, and when ten thirties,
when the party starts, I don't believe I drove my
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mom was like cleaning astro van and drove with girls
through parties. That's next time. This episode was written, reported,
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and hosted by me Janemocha. Our show is produced and
reported by Sofia Polissa car Victoria Lejandro, and Kyle Chang,
and edited by Antonio Shio. Additional editing by any Avidis.
Fact checking by Media about the staffs, Sound design and
original music composition by Kyle Murdoch. Our supervising producer is
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Janet Lee, art by Julie Ruiz and Victuakoyon. Our executive
producer from Vice Audio is Kate Osborne. Our executive producers
from Elia's Studios are Antonia Seti Hibo and leog Our
Vice president of Podcasts from Elias Studios is Shane and
Naomi Krocmam. Special thanks to the UCLA Department of Communication
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Archive for access to their news collection. Party Crews. The
Untold Story is a production of Elias Studios in Vice
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We're on what March April me June, so we're going
on the fourth month of quarantine of the pandemic. I'm
an audio journalist and a few years ago I decided
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to do this assignment with some friends. It was a
kind of assignment where we had to turn around a
story in twenty four hours. We were talking on the phone,
just spit bawling ideas and just overall talking about how
we were feeling in twenty twenty. I was only recording
my side of the conversation, so all you hear on
the tape is me. And there's one thing I haven't
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done in so long that I completely miss and that's dancing.
Like I have moved in this like grinding dancing way,
which sounds really we were to say out loud, and
then one of the people I'm talking to brought something
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up I had mentioned in passing about my time and
a party crew. I haven't really talked a lot about it.
When I do talk about it, it's usually like a
ha ha, I was part of a part of this
party crew, haha, Like you know, we had little signs
and stuff like that, But it doesn't really ever get
deep where I'm talking about how dangerous it was. When
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I was a teen in the mid two thousands, I
was part of a party scene. A bunch of my
girlfriends and I we formed a group and we called
ourselves a party crew. The party crew scene was all
underground parties. We were party in backyards and warehouses, setting
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up a dance floor wherever we could. And what made
it unique is that it wasn't just me and my
friends who were into this. There were hundreds, maybe thousands
of mostly Latin X teens all across LA in the scene,
in places like La South Central and the Sangiarbo Valley
where I grew up. My parents are both from Peru.
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They came to the US in the mid eighties, and
growing up we had some rules. As a student, my
parents had high expectations of me, no bad grades, nothing
below a bee. And when I started high school, I
had a curfew. I had to be home by nine.
I know, I know, those are typical rules for a
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lot of kids, especially for kids of immigrants, but when
you're the oldest and the first in your family born
in this country, the stakes automatically feel higher. And in
my house it felt like there was this other extra layer.
My mom is religious. She grew up evangelical as a
teen in Peru, so when it was time to raise me,
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she raised me the only way she knew. Church every
Sunday was a given, But there was also stuff like
no dancing, no dating, no trigger treating on Halloween. It
was a whole thing. But I knew that as long
as I stayed out of trouble and followed the rules,
I could fly by as your typical, good church, glowing
daughter of immigrants. But when I found the party crew scene,
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I felt like I was able to become a new
version of myself. It was the one place where I
felt comfortable enough to move my body, let lose and
be wild, free from my parents' rules and expectations. A
safe space that was twenty years ago. And when I
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was talking to my friend about this time, I realized
it was the first time in a long time that
I talked about the party crew scene to someone who
wasn't a part of it. Listening back to myself, I
can hear a kind of hesitation in my voice, I guess,
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and I you know I was going through all that
without telling my parents, like I wasn't telling them I
was going to go see my friend who got shot.
I wasn't telling them that I was doing all these things.
It felt like I was sharing a hazy dream, these
fragments of my past. It's not really a time in
my life that I talk a lot about, because as
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fun as it was, there was also a dark side
to the scene. It's a Saturday night house party and
hont hedon park, strobe lights, color and evening of dancing,
drinking and joke smoking. The intense, I say, is to
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have a good time, but the price for that good
time can often be violent or even death. In an instance,
a party scene can turn into a war zone. These
were the parties that made headlines when something bad happened
and it made us teens who were part of the
party crews seem out of control. The people who throw
these kind of parties are called party crews, but police
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say they're very similar to gangs. I ended up watching
a bunch of old news coverage at the scene, and
it was starting to relive those memories. It was a
time and place I recognized, but it felt like it
only caught one side of the story. An outsider's perspective.
On January twenty fifth, two thousand and six, Emory Munious's
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lifeless body was found nearby this warehouse on Marosou and
Olympic and Boyle Heights, a popular area for underground parties.
And that's when I came across a story about a
teen girl. Her name was Emory Munios. She was killed
in two thousand and six and her case was never solved.
Investigator say an I legal rave party was going on
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at the warehouse on Marosols for the night she was killed.
The teenager was killed after tending one of those parties.
She wasn't an all girl party crew like I was
around the same time that I was going out. Her killing,
they think she was strangled. Now tied to the world
of illegal underground parties, learning about Emery immediately, it felt
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so personal to me. It was hard to hear about
a teen girl who didn't make it out of the scene.
She was only a few years younger than me, growing
up a few cities away from me. I wondered, could
I have bumped into her at a party. I kept
thinking about her case. I couldn't get it out of
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my head, the idea that maybe it was pure luck
that something didn't happen to me back then, and the
fact that nearly two decades later, still nobody knew what
really happened to her. I needed to find out more.
So I started to dig into her story, and doing
that would start me on a journey to unpack that
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time in my life. I joined a party crew of
fifteen and now as an adult, I see it in
a different light, and I want to know what does
it mean when you're safe space isn't actually safe from
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ihearts Michael Slura, Podcast Network, Vice and Elia Studios. This
is Party Crews, the Untold Story, a look back at
the scene that I came of agent and an unsolved
murder that is forever tied to it. I'm Jensemoka. I
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knew I needed to start somewhere to look into Emery's case,
so I started looking for the names I found in
the coverage around her murder. So I think we have
found Jemios who is Emory's father? Um so let me
give him a call. All uh Mari Muno, No no no, no, no? Okay, alkay,
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So I'm calling who I think could be Cherry, one
of the heads of Vicious Ladies at that time. Okay,
wish me luck. Sorry, And there is not enough to
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has been restricted or he is unavailable work. Let's try
the last number that I have on this list. He
thank yourself if you're missing. Hi, Becky, this is Janice Um.
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I'm a reporter producer with Fast News. I actually got
your contact your number from Crystal. Still get nervous every
time I really have a voicemail. For some reason, I
look forward to speaking with you. Oh there's It took
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me months, but I found Emory's aunt, Becky Harrow and
her sister Crystal Okay. After a few long conversations on
the phone, they agree to meet me at a halfway point.
We met inside a hotel in Pomona in a small
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conference room. I came with free water bottles and a
jar of peppermints, a plus hospitality. Becky and Crystal were
both warm and friendly. They're both batite with big brown eyes,
just like Emory in the pictures I've seen of her.
The three of us sat at the end of a
long table and talked for hours, and I not only
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had it for a brief moment of time, but in
those six years she'd taught me basically everything you would
expect from a big sister. That's Crystal she was six
when her sister went missing. I learned that Emery was
the oldest of three siblings, one brother and one little sister, Crystal.
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I had my bodyguard it. What weighs did she protect? You? Gone?
Every way imaginable. Um. One thing I really remember is
my mom would always yell at me because I was
a little brown and knows a little and my sister
she would just jump in ya, my sister, do ya?
My sister or my brother would try to plunk on me.
She would end up like punking on him. Every way,
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anything that I wanted she got for meum, toys, candies,
whatever it was she would get from me. Our mom
was always, you know, mentally there. She was physically there,
she wasn't always mentally there. So my sister took on
a very big role and she was always making sure
I was fed, bathed, clothed, everything. She took care of me.
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I'm the eldest kid in my family too, so I
know it comes with a lot of responsibility. Emory's mom's
family is Mexican American. They're an immigrant households like mine.
As a teen, sometimes you take for granted how much
influence you have of your siblings how a small gesture
can create a lasting impact. They used to go take
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like those two thousand pictures, the star shots. Yeah yeah,
actually I found one on my phone mother day. I
me an Emory one. I think I was like four.
She had to be like twelve THIRTYO star shots, or
like these wallet sized pictures you would take with your
best friend, your boyfriend, or your little sister. You would
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show up with your freshly plucked brows and best glossy
lip to a small photo studio inside the mall, posed
in front of an airbrushed backdrop and wait for like
an hour to get your pictures printed. Very nineties, very
two thousands. One of Crystal's few mementos of her sister
Emory is a star shot they took together. That's the
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background of the one that you are. It's like blue
with stars and stairs. I love it. They're gonna show you.
Oh my god, let's describe it. Describe it for me.
So there's a there's a blue background, there's stairs, and
we're supposed to be sitting on the stairs. My sister,
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I think, was going through an eyebrow crisis at this
time and got a little too card away with the Tweezers,
and she had on a white shirt um kind of
like the three fourth quarters um sleeve in the picture
Emory House. Her long brown hair pulled back, half up,
half down, and her mouth is closed with a soft smile.
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It's like her signature smile. I've seen it in a
lot of pictures of her as a teen. She's holding me,
she's hugging me. I was I think four right here.
I have on a blue little sweater that has fluff
around the neck. Because two thousands baby in the prime.
Back then, star shots brought friendships and relationships to a
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new level. I met, you were close, and the world
was going to see it. That was our very first picture.
I don't remember that day, but I feel super connected
to the day. Crystal was in her early twenties, and
every story she shared her her sister peeled back a
layer of emory that I couldn't find in the news coverage.
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She was always dancing, no matter what the song was,
she was always dancing, and I remember she would try
to teach me and I was just right there like
a little four year old, didn't know what the heck
I was doing. Crystal shared one of her earliest memories
of Emory growing up in their home on one of
the highest hills in city terror Us. I think we
lived at the top of the highest hill because we
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lived on three and so we lived right on the top.
But I remembers dancing like outside. We had like the
biggest like garden ever, a bunch of grass, a bunch
of flowers. We could just be dancing, and she loved dancing.
That's Becky Harrow, Emrie's aunt and godmother, her Nina. That summer,
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I wrote a letter to the family, including Emory's mother Maria,
but she didn't respond to us at first. However, her
sister Becky, who over the years has been sort of
a spokesperson for the family regarding Emory's case, she did
get back to us. She let her sister know that
she was talking to us. Used to tell me I
was like her second mom. Becky tells me Emory was
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her informal dance coach. She actually told me to lift feet.
I remember her say, well, you're gonna do dance like
the sister Tecas that one make it look sexy because
you had to spread them a little bit and move
your hips side to side, and she will go behind me.
I will be cooking or doing something, and then she said, aw,
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you're practicing your hips. And I just look at her
and laugh. And then she will go behind me and
then she will move my hips. She will start cracking up.
She said that I was like a stick it because
you need to like relax, you go relax both those hips.
Emory with her family was playful. She felt comfortable enough
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to let loose and be silly. The last time I
saw her was Christmas Day and I just remember her
going by, Nina, see you later, and I said, by sweetie,
and she flew a kiss, a kiss, and that's my
last memory. And I can still see it here. It's
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a matter of fact. She'd want me a little note
that day before I went home. This this is a
piece of favor for anybody, but it's tressure for me.
Becky pulls out a little blue post it note that
she's been carrying with her for over a decade. Am
I reading it to me to Minina in Uncle Ron,
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Merry Christmas. I love you guys with all my heart, Emory.
That was the last time Becky saw her. To learn
more about Emory's last days, I talked to the friends
she was with before she went missing. That's after the break. Hello.
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Hi Alejandra. This is Alejandra. She was one of Emory's
friends in high school. Hi is this Janice. We have
some time to talk right now? Yeah? I do. I
just if I talk a bit as though. It's just
because I got my wisdom taken out this morning. Oh
my god. Yeah, but I'm okay to talk. Thank you
for talking to me. Well, well, you're a little swollen.
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I had mine taken out like years ago, and I
was like chipmunk cheeks forever. Yeah. Oh, I am right now,
but this will distract me. After our initial phone call,
I met up with Alejandra and her family home in
Bell Gardens, a few miles from where she grew up.
I grew up in East Lake, so that's how I
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met Emory. I was there up until I was fifteen,
and one of the reasons why we moved is because
of what happened with Emory. It took a minute for
Emory and Alejandra to get close. He said he didn't
get along at the beginning. Well she didn't like me,
she yeah, she didn't mike me. She was so she
was safe. In the fall of two thousand and five.
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She and Emory were the new kids together freshman at
Francisco Bravo High School. I don't know why she didn't
like me, but we had a pe class and home
room together, and she had a group of friends and
I had my group of friends. And you know, I
would hear things like, oh, she's talking shit about you,
or she said this, she said that. So one day
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after school, she was standing outside outside the school and
I came up to her and I was like, hey,
you know, why are you talking shit? And then she's like,
do you want to walk home while we talk about it?
And I was like, yeah, sure. Emory was on her
way to a football game at Wilson High School, a
rival high school in East LA, so she invited me.
It just happened so fast, and that was it. They
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became friends. That followed to the five It was a
Lejandra and Emory together all the time, every day after school.
I don't know why that memory always comes to my mind,
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but I remember, like, um, the smell of Halloween during
like during those years. I don't know why. I can't
describe it, but every time I go outside, I'm like,
oh my god, it smells like you still or smells
like Halloween. I personally loved Easta like you know. My
parents didn't, um. They thought it was pretty dangerous. But
we had all our friends living in the area, so
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we could walk to each other's house. Emory lived pretty
far from me, but we would still do the walk
like we would. Um. I don't know if we knew
where she lived, but I lived cy Terrorists, that city terrists,
and I lived like in Boyle Heights. So but we
would walk over to each other's house. Yeah, no, no,
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we would. I would run because my parents didn't know
where I was at, so I would be like, oh,
I'm gonna go with my friend down the street, but
really I would walk all the way over there. How
would you describe her personality? Just very happy, very bubbly,
and she was so silly, like she would always try
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to make jokes. She loved singing and dancing. She loved
Mariah Carey, so I remember her always singing and writing
the lyrics down. And one of the things I remember
the most is her laugh like it was just so conpegious.
She would crack up every single time. Alejandra and Emrie
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wrote letters to each other and left them in each
other's lockers. They wrote about boys, their day, anything and everything,
and when they hung out, they danced around their rooms
and listened to Mariah Carey's entire catalog. I can only
imagine them harmonizing too. We belong together. There was a
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few people that, like I said, she would be silly with.
She would around with, but if you don't really know her,
she wouldn't make the effort to really talk to you.
And I think that's why a lot of girls used
to think she was conceited or you know, try to
fight her, because they didn't really know her. She was
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in her own little world, like she was serious, she
didn't care what other people thought. You know, she wasn't
trying to be everyone's friend. There's just times where girls
would talk shit and she would get crazy. You know.
One time we were at a fair and she had
this boyfriend and I guess he was with another girl
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at the fair or something like that. So we actually
left the fair and then she was like, oh, let's
pass by, you know, let's pass by his house. And
at the same time we saw them going in, the
girl and him and she got out of the car
and she was just trying to fight her and just
get crazy. I think we're just like figure bring it
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out kids in ours, like your whole world revolved around Yeah,
that guy. Sometimes I was so in love with him. Yeah,
she loved him, But were you like, you know, I
didn't really know him. I've seen him a few times,
but he just wasn't someone I wanted to talk to
or you know, be cool with. And and she had
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her own group of friends. Did you ever tell any
the parties with Emory? No. My mom would have never
let me go. So that's why I'm telling you. Like
she would tell me like, oh, I'm gonna go to party.
Do you want to go? But she always knew that
I was I wasn't gonna go. Um, so yeah, I
would just see the pictures. Does she like invite you
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before she goes. Yeah. Yeah, she would let me know
or she would be like she would be like, oh,
come on, we'll tell your mom this or that, you know,
and I'm like, that's not gonna that's not gonna work.
I was so scared. Our parents thought we were going
to because we would album. This is Regina Barenian. She
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knew Emery from the party crew scene, but they also
went way back. Was a childhood friends of mind, growing
up since kindergarten, Like some of the first thing I've
ever experienced were with her, you know, when we went
on our first field trip in school, when we had
our first crushes, our school gaps and stuff. She was smart,
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she didn't kick any ship. She super SAFTI, she land
and everybody liked her. Our mothers were friends when they
were kids. I've known her a very long time. We've
been bonded through our lineage. She lived down the street
from Emory in City Terrorists. Their mothers were friends when
they were growing up. We started to go to slow
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together and then we became really close friends. There was
five of us Me, Emery, Diane, Cynthia and Ashley, so
we were able to have a certain kind of freedom
that other kids didn't have. I mean mom and my
mom lived the same life. Sound Me and Amory became
friends because we're able to bond over the same disconnecting
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that we've had with our mothers. Regina is in her
thirties now and she no longer lives in City Terrace.
She was very straight up with me about that time.
Now when I looked back, like I have an eleven
year old daughter right now. And when I was her age,
I had already smoked weed for the first time. I
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was walking home from school already, like I would never
let her do any of that. Along with a bunch
of neighborhood girls, Regina was in a party crew called
Tempted to Touch. It was fun because I felt like
at that time we were experimenting and nobody was violating
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one another. We all made sure we got home one time,
all looked up for one another. This was the community
thing within the inner city communities that we different because
a lot of people it was part of the culture.
Regina explained to me how she understands the context of
the party crew scene. And you know, it evolved from
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the nineties to two top by having back their bookies,
and then we were the new generation, most of these
kids that are partying and two thousand and one to
two thousand and six, we're the fucking tiers of these
teen moms from the nineties, like you know, So I
think that should be highlighted because people have a lot understanding.
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A few months before Emory died, Regina and Emory had
a falling out. Emory had been hanging out with new friends,
the Girls and the Vicious Ladies Crew, and there was
some teaen drama, but their family connection ultimately kept their bond.
My mom made me say sorry to her after she
found out what had happened, because you know, she's like,
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what the fuck. I've been knowing her mom before you
guys are even born. You know, like, I don't care
about your little girl cat drama. So yeah, I had
apologized to her. We were like settled with our little scuffle,
and then she went missing. We were all fourteen year old,
the girls walking down city terrorist. I could have been
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any one of us, you know. You know, what do
you remember about the week that Emory went missing? I
remember that day she came to school really pissed off
because of her mom. This is Alejandra, her high school friend. Again.
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She remembers that the last day she saw Emory, Emory
was mad at her mom, and I remember she was
just talking shit like her mom had got in mad
at her. Because I don't I don't really know what happened,
but I know she was mad at her over like
getting ready or something like that, and so she was
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really upset. That morning, Alejandra and Emory had plans to go,
so they planned to go shopping to pick out outfits
after school. But that same day, my mom called me
and told me that I couldn't stay because I had
to go to the dentist. So I was like, okay,
you know, I'll call you later. So the next day,
on Saturday, I called her and her mom was like,
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I don't know where she's at. According to Emory's mom,
Emory had left the house that Friday afternoon to go
to a friend's house. Emory's mom called Emory that night,
but she didn't pick up. At that point, I was
just like, dam she went somewhere and then tell me
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like that's messed up. Remember, Emory would normally tell a
hand about the parties even if she couldn't go, just
to keep her in the loop, so it seemed weird
to her. The next day, Saturday, Emery's mom and aunt Becky,
went to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department station in
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East LA to file a missing person's report. And they
said how long how she's been missing? And they said,
you know, I hadn't been twenty four hours. And then
I said, I'm the first forty eight hours. Some most
critical ones and right away. They said that if she
was twelve, then they will look for her, but once
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you're a teenager, they don't. You have to wait for
forty eight hours. We reached out to the Sheriff's department
about this, but they declined to comment. They did confirm
that by law, the Sheriff's department is supposed to take
missing person's reports right away. There is no waiting period.
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So I made a fuss over it, so they did
take a report from us. Days passed and still no
one had heard from Emory. Her friends and family put
up missing person flyers all over, using her school portrait
as a photo. I stayed after school and I remember
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putting up the last poster and I got like this
really horrible feeling. It was a Wednesday, January twenty fifth,
six days since Emory went missing, and I left. It
was after school, was like around five. I left, and
when I got home, my friend called me and she
was like, I just saw the cops like at the school,
and I heard what happened. So I ran back and
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that's when they told me that they had found her.
Emory's sister, Crystal, also remembers that day. It was just
it was it's a very vivid timeline that seems that
it went on forever end ever, but like there's so
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little memories actually like pulled out of it. It just
feels like it was ever lasting. Like nothing felt, nothing
felt right. Like I said, everything felt super gloomy. Everything
was like when I picture all this, I picture just
gray clouds in the sky. It was probably like the
sunniest day in January, but I picture clouds. It was.
It was a hard I mean till this day, it's hard,
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but that that time was it was so off, so dark.
Emory's body was found at a warehouse and boiled Heights,
a few miles away from her home. LPD described the
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warehouse as a place where teens would gather to throw parties. Immediately,
it was assumed that she must have been at a
party that night she went missing, or that someone from
the party crew scene knew something. When we found out
that they found her in a warehouse, supposedly that's where
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parties have been helped. But that doesn't connect Emory to
a certain party that night or fire party, or the
reason why she got killed. They're trying to connect two
things that don't go together. This is Regina Emory's childhood
friend again. I'll tell you right now, Emory is no
fucking word that she would leave to the house going
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to go to a fire party with no bag, no backpack.
She's not going in a kinker about the letter with
tennis shoes. That was not how we went. I feel
like when I see her story, it's I feel like
it's misdirected for sure, Like, yes, Emory was a teenager
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going to a fire party, but how do you not
know some serial killer freaking picked her up and just
dumped her body there out of coincidence. I just don't
like how her just put out there, you know, like
it's beautiful fourteen year old girl missing and going for
a fire party and she never came come. So like
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it's a good storyline, but it doesn't get closure to
her family, Like Regina says, it's a good storyline, but
how much of it is true? So that's what I
want to find out. And I'm going to be real
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with you. I know that when you hear Unsolved Murder,
you immediately think, okay, true crime podcast, that this is
going to all be about finding the person who did
this to her. And yes, we will get into her case,
from the investigation into her death and the mysteries that
remained around it. When I got to the scene that
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I knew that I knew she had been dead for
a while, and it appeared to me that she didn't
die there. To the way in which your case co
opted by a local politician. But we have to put
everyone at notice that these parties may it can't be
dangerous and the city should be doing more to stop
these To how we were targeted by police who believe
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the party crew scene was a threat and mostly gang members.
You started off as the normal raiding the party with
one cop car or sometimes ten or fifteen cop cars
blocking off the street, helicopter showing up and flashing everybody.
It is a La City gang that started off as
a tag banging gang. They are morphing into a traditional
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Hispanic turf gang. But in Emory's case, I also see
another question that is important to explore. Why did party
crews get blamed for her death? And what does that
say about us? It's easy to forget that Emery and
I were just kids navigating through a world that wasn't
made for us. We built a being shiny and fun,
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a world of our own In the next episode, I
look back at my own teenage yeers to understand the
thrill of the party crew scene. I had friends catching
me through my window to sneak out, and when ten thirties,
when the party starts, I don't believe I drove my
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mom was like cleaning astro van and drove with girls
through parties. That's next time. This episode was written, reported,
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and hosted by me Janemocha. Our show is produced and
reported by Sofia Polissa car Victoria Lejandro, and Kyle Chang,
and edited by Antonio Shio. Additional editing by any Avidis.
Fact checking by Media about the staffs, Sound design and
original music composition by Kyle Murdoch. Our supervising producer is
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Janet Lee, art by Julie Ruiz and Victuakoyon. Our executive
producer from Vice Audio is Kate Osborne. Our executive producers
from Elia's Studios are Antonia Seti Hibo and leog Our
Vice president of Podcasts from Elias Studios is Shane and
Naomi Krocmam. Special thanks to the UCLA Department of Communication
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Archive for access to their news collection. Party Crews. The
Untold Story is a production of Elias Studios in Vice
Audio in partnership with Ihearts Michael Dura podcast Network. For
more podcasts, listen to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And Hey, were
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you and a party crew? Send us your party flyers
or photos. I'd love to see them, even a voice
message about your memories. Anything. You can send us a
message or a picture at Party crews at Elliot studios
dot com. Support for this podcast is made possible by
Gordon and Donna Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes
Los Angeles a better place to live. This program is
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made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
a private corporation funded by the American people.
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