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Christopher Goffard

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Staff Writer at Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times staff writer. The Trials of Frank Carson. Detective Trapp. Dirty John. Snitch Jacket. You Will See Fire.

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  • 1 week ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

    The railroad tunnel in which John Doe #135 was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel — the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch — and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance. By June 1990, occult-inspired mayhem had become a common theme in the Los Angeles mediasphere.

  • 2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

    Andrew Do, the former Orange County supervisor who took more than $550,000 in bribes over Covid-relief money meant to buy meals for needy, elderly constituents, was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison. “I just do not believe a sentence anything less than the maximum reflects the seriousness of the crime,” said U.S. District Judge James Selna.

  • 4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Christopher Goffard

    Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee were childhood friends, altar boys raised in the Catholic pews and prosperous suburbs of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. By the mid-1970s, Boyce was angry about the Vietnam War and Watergate. He was a liberal, a stoner and a lover of falcons. Lee, a doctor’s adopted son, was a cocaine and heroin pusher who was spiraling into addiction.

  • 4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Christopher Goffard

    Santa Monica man's way to deter sleeping outside homes, businesses met with mixed reviewsA new method for deterring people from sleeping outside homes and businesses is being met with mixed reviews, but like it or not, it appears to be …

  • 1 month ago | gazettextra.com | Christopher Goffard

    LOS ANGELES - Meteorologists are projecting unusually high temperatures in Southern California this week, with the heat predicted to climb above 100 degrees in the San Fernando Valley and reach the 90s elsewhere. After a balmy weekend, temperatures are expected to start rising Monday. "We're looking at pretty widespread 80 to 90 degrees for highs" Monday across the Valley, said David Gomberg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, which covers Los Angeles County.

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Christopher Goffard
Christopher Goffard @LATChrisGoffard
29 May 25

How a pair of Palos Verdes altar boys grew up to be Soviet spies https://t.co/4BV69KPWZc

Christopher Goffard
Christopher Goffard @LATChrisGoffard
15 May 25

It took LAPD 23 years to identify one of their own as the culprit in this fatal love triangle https://t.co/4Y6zVdZwtK

Christopher Goffard
Christopher Goffard @LATChrisGoffard
23 Apr 25

Charged with selling state secrets to the Soviets, a bumbling FBI agent had a novel defense https://t.co/3AWuXoqDcH