A Homicide Detective

01/14/25 • 33 min

Cracking decades-old murder cases, delivering unthinkable news to victims' families, and tracking suspects across borders with John Lamberti, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Why are cold cases harder to solve these days? And what's a "415"?

Dan Heath has co-written five business books, including The Power of Moments and Made to Stick. He's got a sixth book out now called RESET: How to Change What’s Not Working. Learn more about the book and order it here. You can also listen to it on Audible and at Apple Books.
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What It's Like To Be... - A Homicide Detective

Transcript

Dan Heath: Hey folks, just a quick note at the top to state the obvious, this is an episode about a homicide detective. There's some pretty grim stuff ahead, like this story I'm just about to share. In June of 2021, a Guatemalan man living in Los Angeles named Pedro sent an ominous text to his mother and brothers saying he was sorry for what he did and asking for forgiveness, but he was being really cryptic about it. One of Pedro's family members called the police and LAPD pat