Book excerpt: A true story of one of the most gruesome mass murders in Los Angeles history. This incredible twenty-year saga includes brutal murder, vicious robbery, corruption at the highest levels of the judiciary and law enforcement, bought off witnesses and jury tampering, intimidation, bribery, organized crime, as well as drug dealing and all it's violent repercussions. All of these barriers seem insurmountable to the cops who are assigned to pick their way through this "garden of evil." Several other high profile cases of the period are high lighted.