The son of Hollywood’s top agent arrested over a woman’s torso found in a dumpster allegedly tried to hire a group of laborers to remove the brutal evidence from his suburban home, telling them the “belly button” they found inside was just a Halloween accessory.
“I started to see parts of the body, a belly button,” one of the workers, who did not want to be identified, told NBC4 in Spanish.
Samuel Haskell IV, 35, allegedly gave workers $500 to remove three large bags of trash from inside the garage of his Tarzana home on Tuesday, just a day before the dismembered body was found in the garbage of a shopping center, they said.
Haskell, the son of a powerful Hollywood executive who previously represented megastars George Clooney, Dolly Parton and Whoopi Goldberg, allegedly told the workers that the bags were full of rocks, but the group immediately realized the contents were more sinister.
They accepted the money and walked several blocks away to inspect the bags, which they described as soft and soggy, each weighing about 50 pounds.
“I was amazed. Of course, I felt bad. We had been tricked,” the worker said.
The workers said they returned to Haskell’s home and left the bags on his driveway, telling him they did not want his money or to be involved.
Samuel Haskell Jr. allegedly tried to hire laborers to move three large bags full of body parts.Samuel Haskell Jr/Facebook
Haskell allegedly attempted to pass off the body parts as Halloween props, but the men could not be persuaded to participate in his apparent dirty work.
They claim that they immediately tried to report the strange crime at two different police stations, but were rejected.
That same night, construction workers told police they saw what looked like a body in black bags near Haskell’s home, but when officers arrived, the bags were gone.
Police have not yet identified the dismembered body, but suspect it is Mei Haskell, who was missing at the time of the gruesome discovery. Samuel Haskell Jr/Tumblr
A homeless person searching for recyclables stumbled upon the torso about five miles from Haskell’s home the next morning and was arrested on a murder charge four hours later.
Investigators said there were no obvious identifying signs on the torso, such as tattoos.
But they believe it probably belongs to Haskell’s missing wife, Mei, and estimated it wasn’t there for more than a couple of days.
The torso was discovered by a homeless man who was going through a dumpster five miles from Haskell’s home.MEGA
Mei Haskell and her parents, mother Yanxiang Wang and father Gaoshen Li, had already been reported missing before the gruesome discovery.
Haskell was arrested after investigators discovered a significant amount of blood and other evidence inside his home that suggested a murder scene.
The couple’s three children were found safe at school and turned over to the Department of Children and Family Services.
Haskell, who calls himself a director and posted several low-budget video clips online, has a history of violence.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon in December 2008, for which he pleaded no contest to the assault charge and was placed on three years’ probation in 2010.
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