December 4, 2024 • 33 mins
LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton on the latest on Hannah Kobayashi still missing: LAPD says she voluntarily crossed into Mexico alone // Peanuts Christmas // United Healthcare CEO gunned down // DOJ launched probe into UnitedHealth for insider trading and attempted to stop monopoly.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is
The Conway Show. All right, dig dong, What a day
we had yesterday at the White House in Anaheim. Man.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can't thank you enough for showing up.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The people had showed up, The people had donated, people
who went to the pasta thon, people they brought food,
people that brought money, people who went to Wendy's, people
who went to smartan Final, whatever your route was to
help these kids.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Here is the current number, and.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's gonna go up because we're gonna get a new
number from Wendy's and a new number from Smart and Final.
But right now, nine hundred forty five thousand dollars, nine
hundred and forty five, two hundred and three thousand dollars,
nine hundred and forty five thousand, two hundred and three dollars.
That is a hell of a lot of money. That's
nine hundred and forty five thousand, two hundred and three
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meters for these kids, ninety eight thousand, five hundred and
fifty five pounds of pasta and sauce, I'm sorry. Seventy
eight thousand, nine hundred and fifty five seven eight nine
five five seventy eight, nine hundred and fifty five pounds
of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's a number that I can't even get my head around.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, Mark, you better start getting your head around it,
because it's a big number, and it's true. It's true,
and that number I think is going to surpass last year.
So even in a year where it was kind of funky,
you know, we had a we had an election, A
lot of people were on the wrong side of it,
a lot of people were on the right side of it.
A lot of people don't what to do, They're worried
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about their finances.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yet you still came out and help these kids.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And man, I can't I can't thank you enough personally,
professionally and on behalf of iHeartMedia. We owe you a monster, monster,
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And it
was great. We had all the shows out there yesterday,
starting with Amy King in the morning, then Bill Handle
(02:09):
came in he knocked it out. Then it was Gary
and Shannon. I think their their auction item is going
for fifty grand somewhere around now. And then John from
the John COLEVELT Show, and then of course US and
then Moe Kelly knocked it out as well. And so
the auction items are closed. We'll have the winners announce
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the winners sometime this week, but you can still go
to Smart and Final. I think they're happening all the
way until Sunday. I think Sunday and so and Wednesday
and Wendy's. Yeah, Wendy's, Wendy's, Wendy's. I left yesterday to
get down there. I left Burbank at one o'clock and
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I got down there at around two forty five, two
thirty five somewhere in that area. So it took me
a good hour and you know, fifteen minutes, hour and
a half to get down there. It was a little
longer evidently from Studio City, because Mark Thompson didn't get
down there untill four thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Was it four thirty?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I think it was four thirty. Yeah, by the time
he got down there. Anyway, So thank you everybody, everybody
that they donated, everybody that showed up yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That is a hell of a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And we that's our big event every year and raising
money for these kids who simply don't have anything to
eat outside of this pasta thon, and that's going to
feed a lot of belly.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's gonna fill a lot of bellies. So that's a cool,
cool deal.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
There was a big story yesterday. This lovely young lady
Hannah comes from from Maui and all of a sudden
she's lost in la and the father flips out. The
father comes into Los Angeles to look for and doesn't
find her, is distraught, evidently or allegedly, jumps off a
building near lax and they find her in Mexico. LAPD
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kicked the ass and found this woman in Mexico. There
are millions and millions of people in California, in southern California.
There are hundreds of millions of people in North America,
and yet they found this woman. And here to talk
more about the case, his deputy chief and a good
friend of mine, Alan Hamilton. How are you, sar, Nice
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to see you man. How you been doing good? Excellent?
You got your gal in this case?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh we don't quite have her yet, but hopefully soon.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, So take us back on how this happened.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
When was LAPD initially involved and what does it take
to file a missing persons How long do you have
to be missing for?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well, you can file it at any time, you know,
you know, there's kind of a little bit of a
a little bit of a confusion out there with the public.
Sometimes you can come in and file a person missing.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
After ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Hopefully not after ten, maybe fifteen, but certainly you can
come in and report that person missing. I think in
this case it was a little bit of a delay,
but as soon as we received the report, our missing
Person's unit jumped right on it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, And you're when you see a case that's being
played out in the press like this one was. This
was all national international attention, national attention. Big here in
southern California were two four, five, seven, nine, eleven. They
all ran with the story. Does that does that mandate
more people from LABD putting being put on the case
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or do they ignore that that element?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think so. First I want to say this, Lieutenant
Doug Oldfield and his team did an outstanding job on
this investigation. A lot of things happened in the background
that the public is just not aware of, and they
did a fantastic job. So we put a lot of
resources towards this right off the bat Jim because we
thought there was a possibility that she was endangered. Okay.
We worked with a lot of our partners in law enforcement,
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a lot of different agencies are LA World Airports Police
were fantastic, Our MTA partners were fantastic on the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority side and working with our transit services people,
you know. In particular, I want to give a real
shout out to Captain Alex Biaz who took his team
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and come through hours and hours and hours of video
to provide us key information regarding her movements within the
MTA system. So he did a fantastic job along with
his team, and they provided that information to us and
we were able to develop from that information concrete facts
that we could work on to identify where she was
and where she was going.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, so you know twenty years ago, what year did
you start with LPD? Nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety Okay, wow,
four that long ago. Okay, thirty four years ago. There
wasn't the you know, the tool of video cameras everywhere, so.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We didn't have a lot of video back then. We
didn't have a lot of other ways to track people
through technology. I can tell you that in this particular case,
and in a lot of our recent cases, we we've
exploited technological investigations to obtain good quality investigative information that
worked out well in this case. There are some things,
unfortunately that we can't really discuss with the public because
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she's considered a voluntary missing at this point. But those
technological investigations are key to a lot of the things
that we do, and it's not just limited to the
obvious stuff. There are a lot of other things that
we do, and we have a lot of talent on
our department, and we're looking for more people to bring
on the department to share that talent with and be
part of our team. We have a lot of things
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that we do that help us to identify these individuals
and get them back to their families.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now, were you able to track her from the time
she got off the plane until the time she went
into Mexico.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, so going back in this investigation publicly, I can
disclose that she was already putting things out on social media,
So that's was so that stuff's public. You put it
out publicly, then it is what it is and it's
they're on social media. In terms of stuff that's not public.
I can't really discuss that because she would be considered
a voluntary missing person at this point, and I can't
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allow the police department to be used as a tool
to track someone that doesn't want to be found. Okay,
all right. So that's why we're being very guarded about
protecting her rights, because we're a department that operates constitutionally
and we have to protect her rights as well as
everyone else's.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Okay, Now you may not be able to talk about this,
but when we come back, can I'm want to ask
you if you've been in contact with her.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I'll wait for us to come back.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay, all right, this is great, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton is with us thirty four years
on the force and LAPD has contacted this woman and
the sad story about her dad. We'll go into some
details as many as we can with Alan Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Here. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And we have Alan Hamilton with us. He's the Deputy
chief of the LAPD. He's risen up after the thirty
four years. All the way to the tippy tippy top
and very close to the top. Right, you were in
the running, Hi, I was.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But we have a great guy, a great friend. Jim's
gonna do a great job for this city, this department,
and I'm in lockstep with him, and it's going to
be a great ride.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You've known him for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I've known him for over thirty years, Is that right?
I have?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All right, Well, then you've known him a little longer
than I have a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But I went to a Bruins game with him and
his lovely wife and he has like nineteen daughters.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I Am not going to say anything about that writing Jim.
I'm gonna him speak for himself.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But how about this move? You know?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I treat him to the King's game. I got
the tickets and we're sitting there. It was my wife
and his wife and myself and Jim and Boston's knocking
the hell out of the Kings.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
There's sixty two.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He turns to me and he goes, hey, if you
ever want to become a Bruins fan, we'll accept you.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How dare he?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But he was, come on, what's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'd love to be his business manager with his pensions.
He's got an LAPD pension, he's got Long Beach PD pension,
he's gonna have a sheriff's pension, and he's gonna have
a chief of LAPD pension.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That guy's gonna be loaded.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, I'm just glad that he's back. I'm glad that
he's at the Helm. It's gonna be great with this
city moving forward with him at the Helm. And I'm
looking forward to help wherever I'm needed and wherever I can.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, do you consider that an inside guy or he
was an outside guy? Oh, Jim's always been inside who
blue to me?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Always? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And I like when they promote from inside. I don't
like when somebody comes from San Francisco or Chicago or
New York and tells people what to do here.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Jim's a brother, he always I like that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
All right, So let's get back to this this young lady,
Hannah Hannah Kobayashi, right, correct, And and she is she
was missing. She's still sort of voluntarily missing, is that right?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah? So that's we don't believe she's endangered. At this point.
We don't have any evidence pointing to her being endangered.
So that's kind of the classification that we have. We'd
love to speak to her if we have the opportunity.
She have not contacted her. We have not contacted her
at this point. We would love to have a discussion
with her, make sure she's okay, and we'd also like to,
you know, tell her to contact her family, to put
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dimities and let them know that she's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She's really uh, you know, put her family in a
horrible position. Her dad flew from Hawaii to look for
and got distraught and killed himself at lax Is that
what you guys discovered.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, and that's that is an extremely tragic circumstance. Heart
goes out to the family dealing with that, in addition
to the the issue of the missing. I can only imagine,
you know, how terrible that is our you know, our
heart felt. You know, we have we we we feel
that when tragedy is compounded by additional tragedy, it's it's
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terrible for the family and our family members. Our hearts
go out to them regarding what happened. We certainly hope
that anyone that in that position it feels that way,
would reach out and get help. Called nine eight eight.
Contact our department. We have specialists both inside the department
and non governmental organizations that take care of people that
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are feeling suicidal. We always encourage people to contact those
resources before taking this is that.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Mental resource. It is like suicide. That's correct. Did most
of those calls come in from Santa Anita?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That I'm not sure of, but we certainly get a
large number of those calls and we and we try
to utilize, you know, the resources with our partners that
are non non law enforcement partners to help us in
that regard.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I heard when when they pick up the phone at
nine eight eight, the first thing they ask him is
what radio station do you work with?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
That?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't know. I'm not sure that's in the chain
of questions that.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Are inaccurate, sir okay.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I heard.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Also, the FBI got involved in LA with this missing person.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So we had a lot of partners helping us out. UH.
They helped us along with our partners at Los Angeles
World Airports Police, the UH you know our again, our
our partners at Transit Services UH did a did a
great job of helping again come to hours and hours
and hours of video surveillance. We had a lot of assistance,
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and of course whenever there's a missing in California, we
work closely with the California Higher Patrol.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you also get a tremendous benefit from UH news coverage?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, I think the the only caution you you have
to have with news coverage is, you know, we're as
a department, you know, as a law enforcement agency, we're
held to a standard in terms of our investigative quality.
So we have to make sure that we are releasing
facts to the public, and then we also have to
make sure that we're not releasing information that is confidential.
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So we have to jealously guard against again putting out
information that someone may want to keep private. Right, But
at the same time, we have a concern for this
individ that's been reported missing by their family. So it's
it's we have to serve both masters. But because we
are a police department that operates constitutionally, we have to
make sure that even someone that is reported missing has
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their constitutional rights. Jealousy guarded.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton is with us from LAPD. But
have you determined that the father did kill himself?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So the La County Corner made a determination independent of
the Los Angeles Police Department that his death was a
result of suicide.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right, and and probably because he was so distraught over
his daughter missing.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I cannot comment on why he committed suicide. The Corner
will issue a final report at some point down the road.
I don't know if that's going to be publicly available,
but that information is going to be retained by the
LA County Corner's Office.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And again, getting back to the coverage on this, you know,
it was tremendous coverage. You know, you saw it every
day in in the in the papers and online and
even yesterday when when you know, by Chief Jim McDonald
had his press conference that was on live on every station.
There's a big interest in this story.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, I was. I was told afterwards that it was
on live. I guess in other parts of the country
as well. Oh really, I think what's what's important is
that the family expressed some concern regarding the amount of
resources that were put towards this case. I'm going to
say the same thing here that I said at the
press conference. We put in an inordinate amount of resource,
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So I bet you did towards this case, right, involving
many different sections of our department, and our partners as well.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
But I also heard that the family, well I don't
want to paint them as difficult to, you know, to
work with. I can't imagine what they're going through, and
you know they're not they're not in their right mind.
But when you told them that she voluntarily missed the
flight and voluntarily went to Mexico, they it sounds like
they didn't initially believe you.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We can only go by the information that we have,
tim And here's the thing. We developed facts who investigative means,
So that means that the information that we use to
develop these facts have to be ironclad. So, for instance,
if we observe someone and they're moving throughout the city
and they I'm just giving this an example, they passed
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an opportunity where if they were under duress or being
co werced, they would be able to contact law enforcement immediately.
So when we see that, we have to assume that
at that point they're not being co worced or under
duress and they're not being to It makes sense because
you literally have law enforcement right there if something is happening,
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So you have to make the choice whether you want
to contact them or not. Now I know there has
been some statements that have come from people. I'm not
going to say family members because I don't know the origin,
but people have said that you can still be coerced
and still not have someone directly there with you. So
while that is absolutely possible, I mean, you can be
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coerced at your residence.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's a very difficult line though, very it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Is because we do not have the evidence that would
stand up in court to show that that person is
under the rest. And if we don't have that and
we can't prove it, then we have to go by
the evidence that we have.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Is is LAPD still the gold standard that a lot
of police departments come out and observe and then take
that information back to their to their states and cities.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
So one thing that I try to remind people of,
although we are again I know I've already said it earlier,
but I'll see it again, we're looking to hire additional
police officers.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You keep looking at me, you think I'm I'm the guy.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We were looking to hire qualified individuals. We only hire
five out of one hundred, but we're looking for the
right five. I'm gonna I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I consider myself top ninety five percent of that case.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I bet you do. Your support alone is truly appreciated
through the years. I will say this, the investigative quality
from our Missing Persons unit is top notch. In addition
to that, we have individuals that work, for instance, our
Threat Management Unit that we're here to assist us in
evaluating whether someone is or is not under durest based
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on the information we have. We have Robbery Homicide Division
who works missing person cases that don't turn out the
way this one has, and they're very, very skilled and
highly qualified to make determinations on a number of different
evidence points that we had. In this case, everyone was
in lockstep regarding the evaluation of the evidence that was
obtained and the information that was obtained as well.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, do you know where she is in Mexico?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I do not know where she is in Mexico. I
do not even know if she's still in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I see, Okay, all right, Well, that what a crazy story.
And I think the sad part, and I think why
I got so much attention is the father who killed himself.
It happened over Thanksgiving. Over that you know that that
week where everybody's sort of you know, with family and
enjoying family.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Sure, and I think that compounds the tragedy here with
that occurring in addition to the search for a relative.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And I've know you said this twice. You're looking for
new people. How do people apply to become LAPD? So
you just sign up and you get a badge.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So I'd love to give this a shameless plug. The
Los Angeles Police Department is absolutely looking for the next
generation of law enforcement officers that want to join. By far,
and I'm a little biased, but by far, the greatest
law enforcement organization in this country, and I would put
it up against many law enforcement organizations throughout the world.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's great where the gold.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Stand in a lot of different areas. You can go
to another agency and work SWAT, but you can't go
to another agency and work the original squat.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, but the original was started by Chief Gates.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It was started by Chief Gates on this very department.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And a very sad night.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I remember I was in the San Fernando Valley when
it was the Randy Simmons got killed, the first guy
killed in the line of duty and the guy and
that happened a mile from my house, and I remember,
like it was yesterday, the sirens all night long and
his beautiful wife I think her name is Lisa, and
I met her up at the charity event that they
do every year up at the up near Dodger Stadium
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at what do they call that up there?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
The Police Academy, That is the Los Angeles Police Academy
Academy the original are.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You look at rook? I know we got to take
a break. Is there an age range when you got
to be eighteen to be a cop?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So you have to be over twenty one at the
time you're scoring in okay, but there is no upper
age limits. You want to go on that six mile
run with me? Brother, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Let's go all right again. The website where people want
to go to sign up, it's join lapd Okay. You
can put it in in any social.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Media anywhere in the world. And this Saturday at the
Amagon Recruit Training Center Manchester in Aviation, we're going to
be given the test. Show up seven am. We'll tell
you a few things. Eight am you can take the test.
I'll be there. We'd love to see you there.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Excellent, all right, I'm glad Jim McDonald's back. I think
that guy's great.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I'm very very glad. I'm ecstatic that he's back on
the team Big Blue moving.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Forward, and congratulations on the start. You deserve that.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
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I Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I never noticed that there was a religious aspect to
the Peanuts Christmas. I guess would. I guess it would
almost sort of have to be. It's called Christmas. He
gives the whole spit line, gives the whole speech. Yeah,
but when you're a kid, you just think it's you know,
he's I don't know, reading out of some book. You know,
you just sort of sitting in your pajamas, and you know,
it was always Tuesday night at eight that that thing
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would come on. And when I was a kid, and
we always had to get in our pajamas and ready
for it. You know, there wasn't anything you know, you
kids can watch that whenever you want now, but that
we had to watch it live or you missed it.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And like the Grinch usually followed it or something. Yeah, right, exactly,
that's exactly right, the Grinch. It was.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was Charlie Brown Christmas followed by the Grinch. It
was a full hour of great entertainment. Then you would
get some of the sort of claymation stop action stuff. Yes, yes,
and all that with the Abominable Snowman. Yeah, you know,
oh that was what a great you know man. Kids
love that. They look forward to it. They got home,
they got you know, but the pajamas, Elle showered, ready
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to go to bed, and then mom and dad would
let him stay up, you know, eating popcorn and watching
those shows. Nothing better than that, man, nothing better and
just and.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Just like now, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They They also kicked off the entire holiday season with
the the Who Stole the Great Pumpkin?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah. The Great
Pumpkin was great. And you know occasionally they would show
The Great Pumpkin. You know, they'd showed like a week
before Halloween, but then they got to show it on Halloween.
I always thought, well, that's kind of a bummer that,
you know, kids are at home, you know, watching that
thing while other kids are out.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Trick or treating. Hang on, My poor daughter, she had.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The flu one year and and yet she you know,
Halloween is her favorite holiday and she wanted to go out,
want to go out, and I said, now you got
the flu, you got to stay in.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You got to stay in.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And she went into her room and she came out
of a room with her costume on, and she goes, Dad,
can we just go to like two or three houses?
I said, okay, but I don't want to give anyone
of the flu. I'll go to the door. You stand
over here, and I'll say trigger threat, and they'll give
me the Cany'll give it to you. And it was
like a surgeon out there, you know, with this this kid.
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And then we went to like five or six houses.
And then thankfully the city of Los Angeles chose to
be really aggressive with parking tickets and studio city that night,
so I got a sixty four dollars parking ticket on Halloween.
On Halloween, yeah, always always pleasant. And but Halloween was
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always great. Thanksgiving, you know, Christmas, those are all three,
you know, beautiful holidays. They come in a very short
period of time, the end of October, end of November,
and then the end of you know, December, and we're done,
you know. But those were always the great family times.
You know, you got to see people you haven't seen
all year, you know, because there was no such thing
as Facebook. You know, so you have seen your uncle
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and you know you probably didn't talk to him on
the phone, hadn't seen him for a year, and then
you can catch up with them at Thanksgiving. You know,
what are you doing now when you go to Thanksgiving?
You never asked what somebody's doing because you know what
they're doing, because they show pictures every day of what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So there's never anything to say to them. Yeah, there's
never any reason to call and ask anything. No, not
at all. It's like, you know, hey, how's life. Well,
just go to my Facebook. You'll see how life is.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
What do you mean, how's life?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You liked my posts? Yeah, you hearted my posts? Yeah,
you're working right now.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You saw that I got transferred and and I'm now,
you know in the Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You saw that, Like, oh, I did I remember that?
I don't remember that?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, we come back. We have an unbelievable story
coming out of New York. The CEO, the biggest guy
at one of the biggest healthcare insurance companies in the world,
United Healthcare, was shot and killed. Shot and killed on
the streets of New York and man, this is a
story that's gonna wake up Wall Street and wake up
(24:59):
See because I have a feeling that and I hate
to say this. I hope it doesn't happen, but I
have a feeling there's gonna be a lot more of this.
I think people when it comes to healthcare, or when
it comes to insurance and not getting paid. You lose
your home and your insurance denies you. It drives people
to do things they normally would never do.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Looking for somebody to blame. Yes, they're looking for somebody
to blame. And you can always blame the top guy. Man.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
If I was an insurance guy, not not a broker,
but if I was running a big insurance company, I
think it's time to get the vests and get a
guy with a gun walking next to you.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Because this is I and I hate to say this.
You are you know.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Doug Steckler always said the most dangerous people in the
world are people with nothing to lose. And when you
deny a health claim or a house, you know you're.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyl from k A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Right, the CEO of United Healthcare, was killed in the
streets of New York in at six thirty in the morning.
I mean it was, you know, very probably pretty crowded
in New York and guy walking by himself to a
conference for United Healthcare. He's the CEO ten million dollars
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a year, has got two sons, got a wife who
he met in college, went to Iowa or Iowa State,
and went up the ranks in corporate America and arrived
at the top top level is CEO top level, well
maybe not chairman, I guess top level, but fairly close
to the top CEO and was killed on the streets
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of New York. They have not found the guy that
did it. But here's some background. If you miss his story.
I know you're busy, you got kids, you got a schedule.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's why I'm here, keep you up up to date
on what's going on. That's why I've come in every
day for a few people, not for me.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Police announcing that this suspect was actually lying in wait
right here on West fifty fourth Street. Take a look.
The shooting actually happened down here at a side entrance
to the Hailton. From all indications, the suspect knew exactly
who he was looking for and had actually been waiting
here outside for about five minutes before Brian Thompson showed up.
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The father, or too, was the CEO of United Healthcare
and was here in New York City again for that
annual investors conference, staying at another hotel across the street.
It was scheduled to start at eight this morning inside
a second floor ballroom that had been set up for
roughly eight hundred people, But just as things were beginning,
the company CEO another executive told employees they were dealing
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with a very serious medical situation. At about six forty
six this morning, police a man dressed in all black
wearing a ski mask, opened fire and at point blank
rain shot Thompson in the back and fired several other rounds.
The suspect then took off running, raced down an alleyway
between fifty fourth and fifty fifth streets, and hopped on
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a city bike. That bike was last seen in Central Park.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This is the middle of all the business area of
New York. You know, this is Times Square where all
the tourists go. That's you know, three or four blocks away.
If you're familiar where Rockefeller Center is, that's two blocks away,
maybe three blocks away. Fox News is there and they're
still going to do the lighting of the Christmas tree tonight,
even though this happened literally I think two or three
(28:33):
blocks from where that Christmas tree is going to be
lit up tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, yeah, about that late.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Man man and also has GPS on it. In all
the chaos, the suspect also dropped his cell phone. News
quickly spread that Thompson had died at the hospital right
now flat.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, so if this is true, news quickly he dropped
his cell phone.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
In all the chaos, the suspect also dropped his cell phone.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Okay, this is this guy's going to get caught if
that was his cell phone. They're gonna go to Apple
or you know, I don't know, it's there another company
other it sells cell phones, Google, try Tonics, what are
some other what kind of what's that cheap phone you have?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Angel?
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Do you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That's a Samsung?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yes, yes, yes, Well they're gonna go to Samsung.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
They're gonna go to Google, They're gonna go to Apple.
They're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All these places and find out, say, open this phone
for us, We're gonna find out who this is. And
Apple and Samsung and Google. They're all gonna say, we
don't do that. Then they're gonna shut the door. Then
they're gonna open that phone. I think that's how this works.
If the case is this big, they're gonna secretly open
that phone and find out who this cat is. I
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think there's gonna be an arrest or a name of
the suspect by end of business tomorrow. There if this,
if that guy dropped his phone, he's done.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
He's done.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
News quickly spread that Tom's and had died at the hospital.
Right now, Flags at company headquarters in Minnesota are flying
at half staff. Thompson was married, his sister in law
saying by phone, the family is just so sad right now, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
This guy had it going on. He was married. He
married his college sweetheart. They met in college.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
They have two great kids, and you know he's running
this big insurance company. Everybody loved this guy. Everybody that
worked for United Healthcare loved this dude and gunned down
in the mean streets of New York City.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
She has no idea why someone would kill Thompson. Okay,
she has no idea why someone would kill Thompson.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, I don't know if I believe that because he
has had death threats in the last three months, several
of them, several of them, and I can imagine they
come from the sons or daughters or husbands and wives
or fathers and mothers of people who have been denied
acclaim and they passed away, and they blame the insurance
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company for this, And I believe that that statement is wrong.
I think that while she may not have known anybody
that wanted to do any harm to her husband, she
was well aware of the death threats that he was getting,
which is shocking that a guy's making that kind of
money running this kind of company, does not have bodyguards
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with him, and he's not wearing a bulletproof vest. When
I go to New York, I wear a bulletproof vest
and nobody I'm just buzzing around eating pizza slices in
New York Like New Morona.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
She has no idea why someone would kill Thompson. The
NYPD again just briefed reporters.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
In midtown Manhattan early this morning. Fifty year old Brian Thompson,
the CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed in
what appears, at this early stage of our investigation to
be a brazen, targeted attack. This does not appear to
be a random act of violence. The victim was in
New York City to speak at an investor conference. It
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appears a suspect was lying in wait for several minutes
and as the victim was walking to the conference hotel,
the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
And there's video of this.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
There's very clear video of this guy shooting Brian Thompson,
and before that at a Starbucks getting I don't know,
some kind of coffee or I don't know, a treat
or some kind of Danish or something, but at Starbucks.
There's clear footage of him at Starbucks as well, so
they got clear photos of them, They got clear video
of him, and if they have a cell phone, this
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guy is done. It is a matter of hours before
they tell us who the suspect is and or have
arrested this.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Guy, striking the victim at least once in the back
and at least once in.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The right calf.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait
for his intended target. Suspect fled first on foot, then
on an e bike, and was last seen in Central
Park on Center Drive.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, we'll come back and talk to give you some
more details on this is the big, big story. Also,
two students hurt in elementary school shooting. We'll tell you
in Butte County tell you about that as well. Lots
going on and we're covering all right here on KFI
AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
(33:30):
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The Conway Show. All right, dig dong, What a day
we had yesterday at the White House in Anaheim. Man.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can't thank you enough for showing up.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The people had showed up, The people had donated, people
who went to the pasta thon, people they brought food,
people that brought money, people who went to Wendy's, people
who went to smartan Final, whatever your route was to
help these kids.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Here is the current number, and.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's gonna go up because we're gonna get a new
number from Wendy's and a new number from Smart and Final.
But right now, nine hundred forty five thousand dollars, nine
hundred and forty five, two hundred and three thousand dollars,
nine hundred and forty five thousand, two hundred and three dollars.
That is a hell of a lot of money. That's
nine hundred and forty five thousand, two hundred and three
(00:59):
meters for these kids, ninety eight thousand, five hundred and
fifty five pounds of pasta and sauce, I'm sorry. Seventy
eight thousand, nine hundred and fifty five seven eight nine
five five seventy eight, nine hundred and fifty five pounds
of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's a number that I can't even get my head around.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, Mark, you better start getting your head around it,
because it's a big number, and it's true. It's true,
and that number I think is going to surpass last year.
So even in a year where it was kind of funky,
you know, we had a we had an election, A
lot of people were on the wrong side of it,
a lot of people were on the right side of it.
A lot of people don't what to do, They're worried
(01:43):
about their finances.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yet you still came out and help these kids.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And man, I can't I can't thank you enough personally,
professionally and on behalf of iHeartMedia. We owe you a monster, monster,
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And it
was great. We had all the shows out there yesterday,
starting with Amy King in the morning, then Bill Handle
(02:09):
came in he knocked it out. Then it was Gary
and Shannon. I think their their auction item is going
for fifty grand somewhere around now. And then John from
the John COLEVELT Show, and then of course US and
then Moe Kelly knocked it out as well. And so
the auction items are closed. We'll have the winners announce
(02:30):
the winners sometime this week, but you can still go
to Smart and Final. I think they're happening all the
way until Sunday. I think Sunday and so and Wednesday
and Wendy's. Yeah, Wendy's, Wendy's, Wendy's. I left yesterday to
get down there. I left Burbank at one o'clock and
(02:51):
I got down there at around two forty five, two
thirty five somewhere in that area. So it took me
a good hour and you know, fifteen minutes, hour and
a half to get down there. It was a little
longer evidently from Studio City, because Mark Thompson didn't get
down there untill four thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Was it four thirty?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I think it was four thirty. Yeah, by the time
he got down there. Anyway, So thank you everybody, everybody
that they donated, everybody that showed up yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That is a hell of a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And we that's our big event every year and raising
money for these kids who simply don't have anything to
eat outside of this pasta thon, and that's going to
feed a lot of belly.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's gonna fill a lot of bellies. So that's a cool,
cool deal.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
There was a big story yesterday. This lovely young lady
Hannah comes from from Maui and all of a sudden
she's lost in la and the father flips out. The
father comes into Los Angeles to look for and doesn't
find her, is distraught, evidently or allegedly, jumps off a
building near lax and they find her in Mexico. LAPD
(04:03):
kicked the ass and found this woman in Mexico. There
are millions and millions of people in California, in southern California.
There are hundreds of millions of people in North America,
and yet they found this woman. And here to talk
more about the case, his deputy chief and a good
friend of mine, Alan Hamilton. How are you, sar, Nice
(04:24):
to see you man. How you been doing good? Excellent?
You got your gal in this case?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh we don't quite have her yet, but hopefully soon.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, So take us back on how this happened.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
When was LAPD initially involved and what does it take
to file a missing persons How long do you have
to be missing for?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well, you can file it at any time, you know,
you know, there's kind of a little bit of a
a little bit of a confusion out there with the public.
Sometimes you can come in and file a person missing.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
After ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Hopefully not after ten, maybe fifteen, but certainly you can
come in and report that person missing. I think in
this case it was a little bit of a delay,
but as soon as we received the report, our missing
Person's unit jumped right on it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, And you're when you see a case that's being
played out in the press like this one was. This
was all national international attention, national attention. Big here in
southern California were two four, five, seven, nine, eleven. They
all ran with the story. Does that does that mandate
more people from LABD putting being put on the case
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or do they ignore that that element?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think so. First I want to say this, Lieutenant
Doug Oldfield and his team did an outstanding job on
this investigation. A lot of things happened in the background
that the public is just not aware of, and they
did a fantastic job. So we put a lot of
resources towards this right off the bat Jim because we
thought there was a possibility that she was endangered. Okay.
We worked with a lot of our partners in law enforcement,
(05:55):
a lot of different agencies are LA World Airports Police
were fantastic, Our MTA partners were fantastic on the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority side and working with our transit services people,
you know. In particular, I want to give a real
shout out to Captain Alex Biaz who took his team
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and come through hours and hours and hours of video
to provide us key information regarding her movements within the
MTA system. So he did a fantastic job along with
his team, and they provided that information to us and
we were able to develop from that information concrete facts
that we could work on to identify where she was
and where she was going.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, so you know twenty years ago, what year did
you start with LPD? Nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety Okay, wow,
four that long ago. Okay, thirty four years ago. There
wasn't the you know, the tool of video cameras everywhere, so.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We didn't have a lot of video back then. We
didn't have a lot of other ways to track people
through technology. I can tell you that in this particular case,
and in a lot of our recent cases, we we've
exploited technological investigations to obtain good quality investigative information that
worked out well in this case. There are some things,
unfortunately that we can't really discuss with the public because
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she's considered a voluntary missing at this point. But those
technological investigations are key to a lot of the things
that we do, and it's not just limited to the
obvious stuff. There are a lot of other things that
we do, and we have a lot of talent on
our department, and we're looking for more people to bring
on the department to share that talent with and be
part of our team. We have a lot of things
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that we do that help us to identify these individuals
and get them back to their families.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now, were you able to track her from the time
she got off the plane until the time she went
into Mexico.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, so going back in this investigation publicly, I can
disclose that she was already putting things out on social media,
So that's was so that stuff's public. You put it
out publicly, then it is what it is and it's
they're on social media. In terms of stuff that's not public.
I can't really discuss that because she would be considered
a voluntary missing person at this point, and I can't
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allow the police department to be used as a tool
to track someone that doesn't want to be found. Okay,
all right. So that's why we're being very guarded about
protecting her rights, because we're a department that operates constitutionally
and we have to protect her rights as well as
everyone else's.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Okay, Now you may not be able to talk about this,
but when we come back, can I'm want to ask
you if you've been in contact with her.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I'll wait for us to come back.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay, all right, this is great, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton is with us thirty four years
on the force and LAPD has contacted this woman and
the sad story about her dad. We'll go into some
details as many as we can with Alan Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Here. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And we have Alan Hamilton with us. He's the Deputy
chief of the LAPD. He's risen up after the thirty
four years. All the way to the tippy tippy top
and very close to the top. Right, you were in
the running, Hi, I was.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But we have a great guy, a great friend. Jim's
gonna do a great job for this city, this department,
and I'm in lockstep with him, and it's going to
be a great ride.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You've known him for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I've known him for over thirty years, Is that right?
I have?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All right, Well, then you've known him a little longer
than I have a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But I went to a Bruins game with him and
his lovely wife and he has like nineteen daughters.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I Am not going to say anything about that writing Jim.
I'm gonna him speak for himself.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But how about this move? You know?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I treat him to the King's game. I got
the tickets and we're sitting there. It was my wife
and his wife and myself and Jim and Boston's knocking
the hell out of the Kings.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
There's sixty two.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He turns to me and he goes, hey, if you
ever want to become a Bruins fan, we'll accept you.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How dare he?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But he was, come on, what's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'd love to be his business manager with his pensions.
He's got an LAPD pension, he's got Long Beach PD pension,
he's gonna have a sheriff's pension, and he's gonna have
a chief of LAPD pension.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That guy's gonna be loaded.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, I'm just glad that he's back. I'm glad that
he's at the Helm. It's gonna be great with this
city moving forward with him at the Helm. And I'm
looking forward to help wherever I'm needed and wherever I can.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, do you consider that an inside guy or he
was an outside guy? Oh, Jim's always been inside who
blue to me?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Always? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And I like when they promote from inside. I don't
like when somebody comes from San Francisco or Chicago or
New York and tells people what to do here.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Jim's a brother, he always I like that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
All right, So let's get back to this this young lady,
Hannah Hannah Kobayashi, right, correct, And and she is she
was missing. She's still sort of voluntarily missing, is that right?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah? So that's we don't believe she's endangered. At this point.
We don't have any evidence pointing to her being endangered.
So that's kind of the classification that we have. We'd
love to speak to her if we have the opportunity.
She have not contacted her. We have not contacted her
at this point. We would love to have a discussion
with her, make sure she's okay, and we'd also like to,
you know, tell her to contact her family, to put
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dimities and let them know that she's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She's really uh, you know, put her family in a
horrible position. Her dad flew from Hawaii to look for
and got distraught and killed himself at lax Is that
what you guys discovered.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, and that's that is an extremely tragic circumstance. Heart
goes out to the family dealing with that, in addition
to the the issue of the missing. I can only imagine,
you know, how terrible that is our you know, our
heart felt. You know, we have we we we feel
that when tragedy is compounded by additional tragedy, it's it's
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terrible for the family and our family members. Our hearts
go out to them regarding what happened. We certainly hope
that anyone that in that position it feels that way,
would reach out and get help. Called nine eight eight.
Contact our department. We have specialists both inside the department
and non governmental organizations that take care of people that
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are feeling suicidal. We always encourage people to contact those
resources before taking this is that.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Mental resource. It is like suicide. That's correct. Did most
of those calls come in from Santa Anita?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That I'm not sure of, but we certainly get a
large number of those calls and we and we try
to utilize, you know, the resources with our partners that
are non non law enforcement partners to help us in
that regard.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I heard when when they pick up the phone at
nine eight eight, the first thing they ask him is
what radio station do you work with?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
That?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't know. I'm not sure that's in the chain
of questions that.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Are inaccurate, sir okay.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I heard.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Also, the FBI got involved in LA with this missing person.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So we had a lot of partners helping us out. UH.
They helped us along with our partners at Los Angeles
World Airports Police, the UH you know our again, our
our partners at Transit Services UH did a did a
great job of helping again come to hours and hours
and hours of video surveillance. We had a lot of assistance,
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and of course whenever there's a missing in California, we
work closely with the California Higher Patrol.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you also get a tremendous benefit from UH news coverage?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, I think the the only caution you you have
to have with news coverage is, you know, we're as
a department, you know, as a law enforcement agency, we're
held to a standard in terms of our investigative quality.
So we have to make sure that we are releasing
facts to the public, and then we also have to
make sure that we're not releasing information that is confidential.
(13:51):
So we have to jealously guard against again putting out
information that someone may want to keep private. Right, But
at the same time, we have a concern for this
individ that's been reported missing by their family. So it's
it's we have to serve both masters. But because we
are a police department that operates constitutionally, we have to
make sure that even someone that is reported missing has
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their constitutional rights. Jealousy guarded.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton is with us from LAPD. But
have you determined that the father did kill himself?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So the La County Corner made a determination independent of
the Los Angeles Police Department that his death was a
result of suicide.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right, and and probably because he was so distraught over
his daughter missing.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I cannot comment on why he committed suicide. The Corner
will issue a final report at some point down the road.
I don't know if that's going to be publicly available,
but that information is going to be retained by the
LA County Corner's Office.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And again, getting back to the coverage on this, you know,
it was tremendous coverage. You know, you saw it every
day in in the in the papers and online and
even yesterday when when you know, by Chief Jim McDonald
had his press conference that was on live on every station.
There's a big interest in this story.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, I was. I was told afterwards that it was
on live. I guess in other parts of the country
as well. Oh really, I think what's what's important is
that the family expressed some concern regarding the amount of
resources that were put towards this case. I'm going to
say the same thing here that I said at the
press conference. We put in an inordinate amount of resource,
(15:28):
So I bet you did towards this case, right, involving
many different sections of our department, and our partners as well.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
But I also heard that the family, well I don't
want to paint them as difficult to, you know, to
work with. I can't imagine what they're going through, and
you know they're not they're not in their right mind.
But when you told them that she voluntarily missed the
flight and voluntarily went to Mexico, they it sounds like
they didn't initially believe you.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We can only go by the information that we have,
tim And here's the thing. We developed facts who investigative means,
So that means that the information that we use to
develop these facts have to be ironclad. So, for instance,
if we observe someone and they're moving throughout the city
and they I'm just giving this an example, they passed
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an opportunity where if they were under duress or being
co werced, they would be able to contact law enforcement immediately.
So when we see that, we have to assume that
at that point they're not being co worced or under
duress and they're not being to It makes sense because
you literally have law enforcement right there if something is happening,
(16:38):
So you have to make the choice whether you want
to contact them or not. Now I know there has
been some statements that have come from people. I'm not
going to say family members because I don't know the origin,
but people have said that you can still be coerced
and still not have someone directly there with you. So
while that is absolutely possible, I mean, you can be
(17:00):
coerced at your residence.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's a very difficult line though, very it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Is because we do not have the evidence that would
stand up in court to show that that person is
under the rest. And if we don't have that and
we can't prove it, then we have to go by
the evidence that we have.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Is is LAPD still the gold standard that a lot
of police departments come out and observe and then take
that information back to their to their states and cities.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
So one thing that I try to remind people of,
although we are again I know I've already said it earlier,
but I'll see it again, we're looking to hire additional
police officers.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You keep looking at me, you think I'm I'm the guy.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We were looking to hire qualified individuals. We only hire
five out of one hundred, but we're looking for the
right five. I'm gonna I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I consider myself top ninety five percent of that case.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I bet you do. Your support alone is truly appreciated
through the years. I will say this, the investigative quality
from our Missing Persons unit is top notch. In addition
to that, we have individuals that work, for instance, our
Threat Management Unit that we're here to assist us in
evaluating whether someone is or is not under durest based
(18:10):
on the information we have. We have Robbery Homicide Division
who works missing person cases that don't turn out the
way this one has, and they're very, very skilled and
highly qualified to make determinations on a number of different
evidence points that we had. In this case, everyone was
in lockstep regarding the evaluation of the evidence that was
obtained and the information that was obtained as well.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, do you know where she is in Mexico?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I do not know where she is in Mexico. I
do not even know if she's still in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I see, Okay, all right, Well, that what a crazy story.
And I think the sad part, and I think why
I got so much attention is the father who killed himself.
It happened over Thanksgiving. Over that you know that that
week where everybody's sort of you know, with family and
enjoying family.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Sure, and I think that compounds the tragedy here with
that occurring in addition to the search for a relative.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And I've know you said this twice. You're looking for
new people. How do people apply to become LAPD? So
you just sign up and you get a badge.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So I'd love to give this a shameless plug. The
Los Angeles Police Department is absolutely looking for the next
generation of law enforcement officers that want to join. By far,
and I'm a little biased, but by far, the greatest
law enforcement organization in this country, and I would put
it up against many law enforcement organizations throughout the world.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's great where the gold.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Stand in a lot of different areas. You can go
to another agency and work SWAT, but you can't go
to another agency and work the original squat.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, but the original was started by Chief Gates.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It was started by Chief Gates on this very department.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And a very sad night.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I remember I was in the San Fernando Valley when
it was the Randy Simmons got killed, the first guy
killed in the line of duty and the guy and
that happened a mile from my house, and I remember,
like it was yesterday, the sirens all night long and
his beautiful wife I think her name is Lisa, and
I met her up at the charity event that they
do every year up at the up near Dodger Stadium
(20:05):
at what do they call that up there?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
The Police Academy, That is the Los Angeles Police Academy
Academy the original are.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You look at rook? I know we got to take
a break. Is there an age range when you got
to be eighteen to be a cop?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So you have to be over twenty one at the
time you're scoring in okay, but there is no upper
age limits. You want to go on that six mile
run with me? Brother, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Let's go all right again. The website where people want
to go to sign up, it's join lapd Okay. You
can put it in in any social.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Media anywhere in the world. And this Saturday at the
Amagon Recruit Training Center Manchester in Aviation, we're going to
be given the test. Show up seven am. We'll tell
you a few things. Eight am you can take the test.
I'll be there. We'd love to see you there.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Excellent, all right, I'm glad Jim McDonald's back. I think
that guy's great.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I'm very very glad. I'm ecstatic that he's back on
the team Big Blue moving.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Forward, and congratulations on the start. You deserve that.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
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Speaker 1 (21:09):
I never noticed that there was a religious aspect to
the Peanuts Christmas. I guess would. I guess it would
almost sort of have to be. It's called Christmas. He
gives the whole spit line, gives the whole speech. Yeah,
but when you're a kid, you just think it's you know,
he's I don't know, reading out of some book. You know,
you just sort of sitting in your pajamas, and you know,
it was always Tuesday night at eight that that thing
(21:31):
would come on. And when I was a kid, and
we always had to get in our pajamas and ready
for it. You know, there wasn't anything you know, you
kids can watch that whenever you want now, but that
we had to watch it live or you missed it.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And like the Grinch usually followed it or something. Yeah, right, exactly,
that's exactly right, the Grinch. It was.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was Charlie Brown Christmas followed by the Grinch. It
was a full hour of great entertainment. Then you would
get some of the sort of claymation stop action stuff. Yes, yes,
and all that with the Abominable Snowman. Yeah, you know,
oh that was what a great you know man. Kids
love that. They look forward to it. They got home,
they got you know, but the pajamas, Elle showered, ready
(22:08):
to go to bed, and then mom and dad would
let him stay up, you know, eating popcorn and watching
those shows. Nothing better than that, man, nothing better and
just and.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Just like now, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They They also kicked off the entire holiday season with
the the Who Stole the Great Pumpkin?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah. The Great
Pumpkin was great. And you know occasionally they would show
The Great Pumpkin. You know, they'd showed like a week
before Halloween, but then they got to show it on Halloween.
I always thought, well, that's kind of a bummer that,
you know, kids are at home, you know, watching that
thing while other kids are out.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Trick or treating. Hang on, My poor daughter, she had.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The flu one year and and yet she you know,
Halloween is her favorite holiday and she wanted to go out,
want to go out, and I said, now you got
the flu, you got to stay in.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You got to stay in.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And she went into her room and she came out
of a room with her costume on, and she goes, Dad,
can we just go to like two or three houses?
I said, okay, but I don't want to give anyone
of the flu. I'll go to the door. You stand
over here, and I'll say trigger threat, and they'll give
me the Cany'll give it to you. And it was
like a surgeon out there, you know, with this this kid.
(23:18):
And then we went to like five or six houses.
And then thankfully the city of Los Angeles chose to
be really aggressive with parking tickets and studio city that night,
so I got a sixty four dollars parking ticket on Halloween.
On Halloween, yeah, always always pleasant. And but Halloween was
(23:39):
always great. Thanksgiving, you know, Christmas, those are all three,
you know, beautiful holidays. They come in a very short
period of time, the end of October, end of November,
and then the end of you know, December, and we're done,
you know. But those were always the great family times.
You know, you got to see people you haven't seen
all year, you know, because there was no such thing
as Facebook. You know, so you have seen your uncle
(24:01):
and you know you probably didn't talk to him on
the phone, hadn't seen him for a year, and then
you can catch up with them at Thanksgiving. You know,
what are you doing now when you go to Thanksgiving?
You never asked what somebody's doing because you know what
they're doing, because they show pictures every day of what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So there's never anything to say to them. Yeah, there's
never any reason to call and ask anything. No, not
at all. It's like, you know, hey, how's life. Well,
just go to my Facebook. You'll see how life is.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
What do you mean, how's life?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You liked my posts? Yeah, you hearted my posts? Yeah,
you're working right now.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You saw that I got transferred and and I'm now,
you know in the Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You saw that, Like, oh, I did I remember that?
I don't remember that?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, we come back. We have an unbelievable story
coming out of New York. The CEO, the biggest guy
at one of the biggest healthcare insurance companies in the world,
United Healthcare, was shot and killed. Shot and killed on
the streets of New York and man, this is a
story that's gonna wake up Wall Street and wake up
(24:59):
See because I have a feeling that and I hate
to say this. I hope it doesn't happen, but I
have a feeling there's gonna be a lot more of this.
I think people when it comes to healthcare, or when
it comes to insurance and not getting paid. You lose
your home and your insurance denies you. It drives people
to do things they normally would never do.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Looking for somebody to blame. Yes, they're looking for somebody
to blame. And you can always blame the top guy. Man.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
If I was an insurance guy, not not a broker,
but if I was running a big insurance company, I
think it's time to get the vests and get a
guy with a gun walking next to you.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Because this is I and I hate to say this.
You are you know.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Doug Steckler always said the most dangerous people in the
world are people with nothing to lose. And when you
deny a health claim or a house, you know you're.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
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Speaker 1 (26:03):
Right, the CEO of United Healthcare, was killed in the
streets of New York in at six thirty in the morning.
I mean it was, you know, very probably pretty crowded
in New York and guy walking by himself to a
conference for United Healthcare. He's the CEO ten million dollars
(26:25):
a year, has got two sons, got a wife who
he met in college, went to Iowa or Iowa State,
and went up the ranks in corporate America and arrived
at the top top level is CEO top level, well
maybe not chairman, I guess top level, but fairly close
to the top CEO and was killed on the streets
(26:49):
of New York. They have not found the guy that
did it. But here's some background. If you miss his story.
I know you're busy, you got kids, you got a schedule.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's why I'm here, keep you up up to date
on what's going on. That's why I've come in every
day for a few people, not for me.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Police announcing that this suspect was actually lying in wait
right here on West fifty fourth Street. Take a look.
The shooting actually happened down here at a side entrance
to the Hailton. From all indications, the suspect knew exactly
who he was looking for and had actually been waiting
here outside for about five minutes before Brian Thompson showed up.
(27:24):
The father, or too, was the CEO of United Healthcare
and was here in New York City again for that
annual investors conference, staying at another hotel across the street.
It was scheduled to start at eight this morning inside
a second floor ballroom that had been set up for
roughly eight hundred people, But just as things were beginning,
the company CEO another executive told employees they were dealing
(27:46):
with a very serious medical situation. At about six forty
six this morning, police a man dressed in all black
wearing a ski mask, opened fire and at point blank
rain shot Thompson in the back and fired several other rounds.
The suspect then took off running, raced down an alleyway
between fifty fourth and fifty fifth streets, and hopped on
(28:07):
a city bike. That bike was last seen in Central Park.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This is the middle of all the business area of
New York. You know, this is Times Square where all
the tourists go. That's you know, three or four blocks away.
If you're familiar where Rockefeller Center is, that's two blocks away,
maybe three blocks away. Fox News is there and they're
still going to do the lighting of the Christmas tree tonight,
even though this happened literally I think two or three
(28:33):
blocks from where that Christmas tree is going to be
lit up tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, yeah, about that late.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Man man and also has GPS on it. In all
the chaos, the suspect also dropped his cell phone. News
quickly spread that Thompson had died at the hospital right
now flat.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, so if this is true, news quickly he dropped
his cell phone.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
In all the chaos, the suspect also dropped his cell phone.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Okay, this is this guy's going to get caught if
that was his cell phone. They're gonna go to Apple
or you know, I don't know, it's there another company
other it sells cell phones, Google, try Tonics, what are
some other what kind of what's that cheap phone you have?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Angel?
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Do you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That's a Samsung?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yes, yes, yes, Well they're gonna go to Samsung.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
They're gonna go to Google, They're gonna go to Apple.
They're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All these places and find out, say, open this phone
for us, We're gonna find out who this is. And
Apple and Samsung and Google. They're all gonna say, we
don't do that. Then they're gonna shut the door. Then
they're gonna open that phone. I think that's how this works.
If the case is this big, they're gonna secretly open
that phone and find out who this cat is. I
(29:46):
think there's gonna be an arrest or a name of
the suspect by end of business tomorrow. There if this,
if that guy dropped his phone, he's done.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
He's done.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
News quickly spread that Tom's and had died at the hospital.
Right now, Flags at company headquarters in Minnesota are flying
at half staff. Thompson was married, his sister in law
saying by phone, the family is just so sad right now, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
This guy had it going on. He was married. He
married his college sweetheart. They met in college.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
They have two great kids, and you know he's running
this big insurance company. Everybody loved this guy. Everybody that
worked for United Healthcare loved this dude and gunned down
in the mean streets of New York City.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
She has no idea why someone would kill Thompson. Okay,
she has no idea why someone would kill Thompson.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, I don't know if I believe that because he
has had death threats in the last three months, several
of them, several of them, and I can imagine they
come from the sons or daughters or husbands and wives
or fathers and mothers of people who have been denied
acclaim and they passed away, and they blame the insurance
(31:01):
company for this, And I believe that that statement is wrong.
I think that while she may not have known anybody
that wanted to do any harm to her husband, she
was well aware of the death threats that he was getting,
which is shocking that a guy's making that kind of
money running this kind of company, does not have bodyguards
(31:22):
with him, and he's not wearing a bulletproof vest. When
I go to New York, I wear a bulletproof vest
and nobody I'm just buzzing around eating pizza slices in
New York Like New Morona.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
She has no idea why someone would kill Thompson. The
NYPD again just briefed reporters.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
In midtown Manhattan early this morning. Fifty year old Brian Thompson,
the CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed in
what appears, at this early stage of our investigation to
be a brazen, targeted attack. This does not appear to
be a random act of violence. The victim was in
New York City to speak at an investor conference. It
(32:04):
appears a suspect was lying in wait for several minutes
and as the victim was walking to the conference hotel,
the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
And there's video of this.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
There's very clear video of this guy shooting Brian Thompson,
and before that at a Starbucks getting I don't know,
some kind of coffee or I don't know, a treat
or some kind of Danish or something, but at Starbucks.
There's clear footage of him at Starbucks as well, so
they got clear photos of them, They got clear video
of him, and if they have a cell phone, this
(32:39):
guy is done. It is a matter of hours before
they tell us who the suspect is and or have
arrested this.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Guy, striking the victim at least once in the back
and at least once in.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The right calf.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait
for his intended target. Suspect fled first on foot, then
on an e bike, and was last seen in Central
Park on Center Drive.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, we'll come back and talk to give you some
more details on this is the big, big story. Also,
two students hurt in elementary school shooting. We'll tell you
in Butte County tell you about that as well. Lots
going on and we're covering all right here on KFI
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