In an asap podcast, JACOB ADELMAN hitches a ride on a tour bus that explores the Los Angeles area's dark side.
ALHAMBRA, Calif.
Tour participants board the Crime Bus. (AP Photo/Jacob Adelman)
Lots of bus tours visit the homes and haunts of Southern California's celebrity elite. But not the ones operated by a group of amateur historians who call themselves the 1947 Project, after the year of the so-called Black Dahlia murder. Their "Crime Bus" tours visit the scenes of some of the Los Angeles area's grisliest acts of violence.
Some are well known, like the slaying of actress Lana Clarkson, who was found shot to death in record producer Phil Spector's hilltop mansion in Alhambra.
But most are long-forgotten crimes, like the killing of a young bride-to-be whose body was discovered in a shallow grave beneath her parents' house in El Monte after she failed to return from a trip to visit family with her uncle.
"We want to refresh those lost memories," said Kim Cooper, a Crime Bus tour guide. "We think that when people die in a place, it does change the place forever."
Board the Crime Bus in this asap podcast.
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asap contributor Jacob Adelman is an AP reporter in Los Angeles.
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