Son of Dolly Parton's ex-agent arrested after cops find wife's dismembered torso
A day after a witness found a woman's torso in a garbage bag that was dumped in a parking lot near a family restaurant and nail salon, police have arrested a suspect - a man who is the son of a famous Hollywood agent.
Samuel Bond Haskell IV, of Tarzana, LA, was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife. He's also the chief suspect in the disappearance of his in-laws.
After workers reported seeing what looked like human remains on Haskell's property, police began to investigate. L.A. Police Capt. Police found blood and 'a crime scene' in the home.
Scot Williams of the Robbery-Homicide Division said the torso "is assumed to be Haskell’s wife, Mei Haskell, who has not been located." Forensics still needs to confirm the identity, according to the LA Times.
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Sam Haskell and Dolly Parton - as Haskell's son is arrested on suspicion of murder (Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock)
Haskell's son is in serious hot water, and his children have been removed by social services after a gruesome discovery by police (Startraks Photo/REX/Shutterstock)Haskell; his wife, Mei Haskell; and her parents, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshen Li, all lived in a single-story home in the 4100 block of Coldstream Terrace. Sam IV and Mei have three children together, who authorities say were at school when the murder occurred.
His father, Sam III, was the Executive Vice President and a member of the William Morris Agency Board of Directors and held the position of Worldwide Head of Television.
LAPD Detective Efren Gutierrez said that they've made significant efforts to try and locate Mei Haskell’s parents but have yielded no results.
“They would normally be home in these hours, and attempts have been made to contact them by phone, by cellphone and no answer. And the same with Mei. She is unaccounted for.”
Detectives are “still tracking down leads and witnesses,” Williams said. The children were handed to the Department of Children and Family Services.
Samuel Haskell of Tarzana was taken into custody Wednesday and is being held in the Van Nuys Jail on $2million bail (ABC NEWS 7)It does often take time to identify a body, especially when it is dismembered. "If a murder suspect is dismembering a body, it's to delay identification," LAPD homicide detective Efren Guttierez told KTLA, citing the difficulty in identifying the victim from a partial body part.
A passersby called the police when they saw trash bags with what they thought looked like human remains right outside the California estate, which is located less than five miles from the parking lot where the torso was found. By the time officers arrived at the address, the bag was gone.
A local resident told abc7: "I think it was kind of weird to drive up and be blocked off along the boulevard and into the little centre over here and to find out that there were body parts there... in Encino."
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