Westlake

What would we do without them?

Five days before, on a Thursday evening, a Mr. Philip Gorman returned to his home in the Westlake district of Los Angeles to find his wife, Barbara Gorman, and his two-year-old daughter, Nancy, missing.

There wasn't any note, no explanation of any kind.

A few clothes were gone.

Well, looks like we got it made, maybe.

What do you mean? Radio car out in the Westlake District just picked up a couple of kids.

Uh-huh.

Both of them were loaded down with clothes.

It's quite literally the heart of Los Angeles.

And it's the only district I know, like I said, we're many generations here, but it stretches from Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Northeast LA to Pico Union, Westlake through Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Koreatown, downtown Los Angeles out to Boyle Heights, East LA.

So even unincorporated parts of East LA where Federal representation is really important, especially after the oil spill, the lineage warehouse fire, ice raids.

But also we just had one of the warmest years on record and many schools in our district don't have air conditioning.

He was the president of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

He was living the high life, lived in a very quiet, high-end bungalow court on South Alvarado Street, right in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Now, Westlake back in the 20s wasn't the way it is today.

Today it's kind of crowded.

But back then, Westlake Park was where the elite lived.

It was lush, dark, very quiet.

Bungalows were tucked behind palm trees and banana leaves.

New this morning, a suspected car thief is in custody after a wild high-speed chase through L.A. Burbank police chased a gray Toyota Prius down the 5 freeway last night with speeds topping 100 miles per hour.

That driver eventually pulled over in the Westlake neighborhood and took off running.

You see him there.

Air 7 captured the suspect jumping fences as officers searched the area.

In the decade that elapsed between Taylor's arrival in Hollywood and his murder, he directed dozens of films and also served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force near the end of World War I.

On the morning of February 2, 1922, Taylor's body was found in his bungalow in Westlake, Los Angeles, by his valet, Henry Peavy.

A crowd quickly gathered and someone who identified himself as a doctor stepped forward and declared that Taylor had died of a stomach hemorrhage.

When the police examined the body, however, they found that Taylor had been shot in the back with a small-caliber pistol.

Born to an oil tycoon in New York City in 1924, Georgette lived a life of privilege.

She and her older sister attended a convent school on Long Island, where they were trained in goodness and propriety.

When the girl's mother died in 1935, the Bauerdorf siblings and their father moved to California, where Georgette was once again enrolled in a school that befit her place in society, alumnae of the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, including Shirley Temple and Myrna Loy.

Upon graduation in 1941, young Georgette moved to West Hollywood to pursue an acting career.

We're like neighbors, low key.

It's Echo Park, Westlake, Little Filipino Town.

Little Filipino Town, like lumpia town, like-

Yeah

It was, uh, January 29th, 2005.

This happened in Los Angeles in the Westlake District.

Uh, Rampart Station controls that, that area.

So this ties into the whole, uh, Rampart scandal, uh, Rampart Crash Unit.

Yeah.

So, [clears throat] okay.

So, um, for those who are familiar with, with Los Angeles, with the, the whole little West side, uh, Westlake area, Rampart division area, uh, it was...

I was on Third Street and Whitmore.