Primary Source: Police Report

Dear Readers,

  To explain where I constructed yesterday's story, here is a primary source that supports the narrative.  It's a police report, describing the interesting circumstances of the crime.  You can see where the investigating officers did their best to try and understand just what happened.

  This sort of primary source is particularly interesting to translate, because of the "official document" element.  Tomorrow, I'll post another source that explains how I was able to fill in the blanks in the LAPD's report from that time stream.

  Now, of course, it would be somewhat irritating to wade through the actual pages-long police paperwork, so I've provided the relevant text with regards to the incident, and left out extraneous details.

  Always,

    Dr. John Skylar
    Chairman
    Department of Anachronism
    University of Constantinople


INCIDENT REPORT
REPORTING OFFICER: Lt. Thomas R. Cunningham, LAPD

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On May 17th, 2006 at 19:45 I and my partner responded to a shots fired 911 call at 8025 Oakwood Avenue, North Hollywood.  On our arrival, we found the home, currently owned by a real estate agency, unlocked, with two bodies, a male and a female inside.  Their descriptions: the woman was of medium build, about 5'5", ~130 lbs, with dark hair, light skin, and green eyes.  Likely of Caucasian/Hispanic descent.  The man, a Caucasian who appeared to be in middle age, had grey to greying hair, gold/hazel eyes, and looked to be 6'2" and ~200 lbs.

The female's body had noticeable evidence of biting/animal attack in the neck area, though we are waiting for the Coroner's Report to determine the precise cause of death.  While we saw similar wounds on the male, we also found a Smith and Wesson 6-shot longbarrel .38 police revolver on the body, as well as identified a cranial entry wound.

Identifying information was found on both bodies.  This identified the female as one Lisa Gruenberg-Lopez, waitress at the nearby Canter's Delicatessen.  The male's identification was for one Albert Stenson, though when we ran his license it appeared that this may be one of many aliases used by the liscensed Private Investigator Jonathan Wilfred Robertson.  According to this information, their ages were 20 and 57, respectively.



We also found evidence that five shots were fired into one of the building's interior walls.  We recovered six .38 shell casings near the presumed Mr. Robertson's body.

Our assessment at the scene was that this was a murder-suicide committed by Mr. Robertson against Ms. Gruenberg-Lopez.  Though no one in the neighborhood witnessed the crime, the maitre'd at Canters', James Green, informed us that Robertson was a regular, and that Ms. Gruenberg-Lopez thought of him as inappropriate but harmless.

We are unable to explain, at this time, the apparent animal bites on both of their necks, but we believe they were caused by a coyote or feral animal that wandered into the home following the incident.