A retired Los Angeles cop testified Monday that investigators committed an injustice with 1980 when they arrested a woman who is "psychic vision" led them to the body on the murder victim.
Lee M. Ryan, who retired a year ago and now lives in Idaho, seemed to be the first detective to speak to Etta Claudia Smith when she described her vision concerning the murder of a Sylmar nurse.
Later, after leading police to the Mbt Shoes Sale system in Louis Vuitton Wallet Lopez Canyon, Smith has been arrested by other detectives who doubted her narrative and thought she could possibly be connected to the killing, according to account in the trial on Smith's civil suit against the City of L . a ..
"I believe there's been a losing the unborn baby of justice in the case of Mrs. Cruz," Ryan Cheap Mbt Shoes told the actual Van Nuys Superior Court jury.
Smith, who spent 4 days in custody, can be suing the city for unspecified damages, alleging that police lacked possible cause to arrest her. A couple of men with no known link to Smith eventually were convicted of the murder of Melanie M.
He said other detectives on the case told him that their ordering officer had ordered this jailing of Smith, who is light, because of her close connection to blacks in the Lake See Terrace neighborhood where the healthcare professional was kidnaped. The assailants have been described by witnesses as being african american men.
The commanding official, Capt. John Salvino, thought Smith "was concealing information or possibly protecting an individual because she cohabited, lived with, men Negro," Ryan testified.
Salvino, who retired in Early in the eightys, could not be reached with regard to comment. Assistant City Atty. Ervin K.
Smith, 39, resided in Pacoima in 1980 but has moved to Burbank.
She testified a week ago that, after hearing a radio news report on Dec. 19, 1980, about the nurse's disappearance, she visualized a new canyon where she considered the woman's body had been trashed.
Smith went to the Foothill Division police station and relevant her experience to He. He said he reassured Johnson that police would research the area and that her brand would be kept confidential.
"We thought to be her a very Nike Heels valuable see," Ryan testified. "She got come forward on her own in a really serious matter."
Concerned that officers might ignore her lead, Smith explained, she went to the canyon immediately after the meeting with Jones and located the body. Then the woman led police back to the actual scene, she said.
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