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   LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Tarzana man accused of killing his wife and her   
   parents, who remain missing, has died in custody, authorities confirmed.   
      
   Samuel Bond Haskell, 37, was found dead at the Twin Towers Correctional   
   Facility just after 4 a.m. Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County   
   Sheriff's Department.   
      
   The department did not release details on what lead up to his death, but   
   Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman in a statement said   
   that Haskell took his own life, days before he was scheduled to appear in   
   court for a preliminary hearing.   
      
   "Instead of standing before a judge and answering for the crimes he's been   
   charged with, the defendant managed to escape justice," District Attorney   
   Hochman said. "This is one last cruel act by someone who did the most   
   horrific things for reasons we will never entirely know. A family that has   
   been dealing with unimaginable loss now has been robbed of their chance to   
   face him, hold him accountable for his barbaric actions, and openly share   
   their grief and their cherished memories of their loved ones."   
      
   In 2023, Haskell was accused of murdering Mei Li Haskell, 37, and her   
   parents, Gaoshan Li, 72, and Yanxiang Wang, 64, and then tossing   
   dismembered body parts into an Encino trash bin, where the human remains   
   were later discovered.   
      
   Haskell lived in Tarzana with his wife, their three young children and her   
   parents. The children were unharmed. Hochman said they are now living   
   together with a relative.   
      
   Haskell is the son of Emmy-winning producer and Hollywood agent Sam   
   Haskell, who served as an agent for Kathie Lee Gifford, Whoopi Goldberg,   
   Dolly Parton, George Clooney and others.   
      
   The three missing family members were last seen on Nov. 6, 2023.   
      
   "On Nov. 7, Haskell allegedly hired four day-laborers to take away several   
   heavy black plastic trash bags from his home in Tarzana," the Los Angeles   
   Police Department said in a statement. "One of the laborers opened one of   
   the bags and allegedly observed human body parts. They called 911 and   
   reported the incident."   
      
   They returned the bags and money, but the bags weren't there when police   
   arrived, authorities have said.   
      
   The same day, Haskell was caught on video dumping something in a dumpster   
   in nearby Encino, authorities said. He was arrested the next day after   
   someone rummaging through trash in the dumpster found a woman's torso and   
   called 911, prosecutors said.   
      
   Hochman said there's DNA evidence linked to all three victims on a bloody   
   knife found in Haskell's possession. Hochman also said investigators found   
   a cutting saw, machetes, knives, a .357-caliber firearm and a "bloody   
   plyboard in which the killings had occurred."   
      
   Hochman said Haskell had been having an affair with a 27-year-old woman,   
   but a motive for the killings is unknown.   
      
   "The full motive for an individual to so violently and barbarically kill   
   three people and chop up their bodies - Mr. Haskell has taken that motive   
   to the grave with him," Hochman said.   
      
   https://abc7.com/post/tarzana-man-samuel-haskell-dies-custody-murders-   
   wife-parents-dismembering-body-parts/17116108/   
      
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