Confidential
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Photos
The cast
Law enforcement
Special Agent Sophie Anderson, profiler, FBI LA
Detective Ramos, LAPD, Homicide
Special Agent Petrov, Organized Crime and Gangs SAC, FBI LA
Special Agent Joe Dimos, DEA, Gang Impact Team
Special Agent Ha Yeon Kim, DEA, Gang Impact Team
Special Agent Williams, ATF, Gang Impact Team
Special Agent Dan Young, DEA
Dr Lloyd Grove, forensic pathologist, Coroner’s Office
Detective Darren Carter, Arizona PD, Homicide
Organised crime
Tomi Moto, head of LA’s Yakuza
Takeshi Suzuki, second in charge LA’s Yakuza
Miki, Yakuza ‘thug’
Victim
Jun Saito, son of first Korean Yakuza godfather, Hisayuki Saito
Other cast members
Bob & Jan Anderson, Sophie’s parents
Mee Kim – knew victim somehow?
Sifu Lee, Sophie’s Kung Fu teacher
Chung Lee, Kung Fu teacher’s cousin, with Beijing Police
The evidence
Obviously I don’t want these case files to contain spoilers, so I can’t detail every single clue and how it plays out during the investigation. However, this is a summary of the starting point.
Crime scene
Cigarette butt left at crime scene
License plates from cars at crime scene
Debris at crime scene – finger prints?
Reconstruction of shot-out light
From the vic
Vic’s blood alcohol level
Vic’s clothes to trace – drugs?
Analysis of vic’s facial features to try to pinpoint race
Fingerprints to US State Department (for matches with people entering country) and Interpol
Once ID confirmed: Vic’s hotel room and laptop
Other
VICAP – any similar murders?
Mee Kim – relationship to vic?