Destroyed Enzo in Malibu

[SpecCarrera]

I made my way out last weekend and drove Decker both ways... fun twisties---took some pics from above the crash site and found misc. pieces from the Enzo... carbon fiber/honeycomb body parts with a bit of the red paint, a titanium? suspension part... will sell them privately to anyone building a car, part by part!!! hahahaaa-

Sux that Howards auction was shut down...

[gprsh924]

they made 399 not 499 then they made a special one for the pope so the total was 400

[Emission]

So, how high did it get?

[SpecCarrera]

I think $160 or somthing crazy like that before ebay pulled the plug...

[Emission]

He's back in the paper today. Apparently, a gun cartridge (or something like that) was found with the crash... it may be related.

The plot thickens...

[TRE Cup]

two air bags were deployed- i was sent a pic by a friend that shows that both went off in the crash. can't post it as it is a bitmap and i don't know how to convert it. will resend it to someone to do that though.

so was "dieter" found?

[Yellowbird RS]

Originally posted by TRE Cup
two air bags were deployed- i was sent a pic by a friend that shows that both went off in the crash. can't post it as it is a bitmap and i don't know how to convert it. will resend it to someone to do that though.

so was "dieter" found?

TRE Cup send it to me for jepg convert anzuresags@att.net.mx

[Craig 930 RS]

Perhaps 'Dieter' is the same man as the guy OJ Simpson is looking for.............................

[bryanthompson]

Originally posted by Craig911
Perhaps 'Dieter' is the same man as the guy OJ Simpson is looking for.............................

The same guy that killed JonBennet Ramsey and Chandra Levy....... "Some Puerto Rican Guy"

[Craig 930 RS]

Just look for a guy with blood on him.....hey, maybe OJs bloody glove!

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by TRE Cup
two air bags were deployed- i was sent a pic by a friend that shows that both went off in the crash. can't post it as it is a bitmap and i don't know how to convert it. will resend it to someone to do that though.

so was "dieter" found?

Open picture in Paint. Click Save as and change the format to .jpg and you are set.

[speeder]

This morning's LAT made it sound like the investigators had identified "Dietrich", (not "Dieter", who is the phantom weight watchers member). Since both airbags deployed, there must have been 2 occupants, no?

There is blood on the driver's AB and none on the passenger's, and the owner dude had a cut lip, all they need now is some DNA from him and case closed.

The article is funny w/ the mayor of Malibu saying that they should have given him an IQ test along w/ the blood alcohol test, and another resident commenting that, "we have a lot of idiots in Malibu, and many of them drive cars like that...."

[Mulhollanddose]

Originally posted by speeder
There is blood on the driver's AB and none on the passenger's, and the owner dude had a cut lip, all they need now is some DNA from him and case closed.

Yep...I can't believe he thought that Dietrich story would fly.

[Howard Agency]

And the beat goes on. Thought I was tacky??? You'll love this guy.

[Yellowbird RS]

TRE Cup Pics.

[Yellowbird RS]

more

[Rick Lee]

I was in a rollover accident (as a passenger) in college. We walked away from it, but the cops got all hot at us when we all insisted we were uninjured and didn't need an ambulance. He shined his flashlight on a trail of blood inside the car and was sure we were lying. We all looked at each other in horror. None of us were cut. Then the EMT's came and made us sign some papers, refusing medical attention. When I took my mittens off, there was blood all over my hands. Turns out I was so shaken up, I had felt nothing when I crawled through the shattered windshield to get out of the upside down car. Some of the glass got into my mittens. So it's possible to have blood in the car and no one thinks they're injured or needs medical attention. I also knew a guy in high school whose car went off a cliff in Mexico. He also walked away from it and collapsed dead of internal injuries 20 min. later.

[RickM]

They found Dietrich hiding behind a gate in Brentwood

[Yellowbird RS]

Ferrari Case Takes New Twist With Possible Tie to Bus Agency
The trail leads to a nonprofit operating out of a Monrovia repair shop. More puzzling is its police force and 'anti-terrorism' unit.
By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
March 3, 2006

As sheriff's detectives investigate last week's crash that destroyed a $1-million Ferrari, they are now looking into an obscure nonprofit organization that provides disabled people with transit in the San Gabriel Valley.

The car's owner, a former video game executive from Sweden, told Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene of the Feb. 21 accident in Malibu that he was deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority's police anti-terrorism unit, detectives said Thursday.

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A few minutes after the crash, two unidentified men arrived at the scene, flashing badges and saying they were from "homeland security," according to Sheriff's Department officials.

Deputies allowed the men into the accident scene, where they spoke to Stefan Eriksson before leaving, Sgt. Phil Brooks said.

Sheriff's officials on Thursday said they now want to question them.

"We would like the public's help with any information about these men or the crash," Brooks said.

They are also looking into the transit organization to see what connection, if any, it has to the case. Brooks said detectives believe the two men from "homeland security" received their badges from the transit authority.

No one was injured when the rare Ferrari Enzo traveling 162 mph smashed into a power pole on Pacific Coast Highway. But the case continues to generate interest because the Ferrari is one of only 400 built, and detectives have struggled to understand what happened.

Eriksson told investigators he was a passenger in the Ferrari and that the driver was a man named Dietrich, who fled from the scene. But officials have been skeptical, noting that Eriksson had a bloody lip and the only blood found was on the driver's side airbag.

On Thursday, Brooks said detectives now doubt initial reports that the Ferrari was racing a Mercedes SLR. Detectives had interviewed a second man who said he was a passenger in a Mercedes SLR that he said was racing the Ferrari at the time.

"There was no Mercedes SLR," Brooks said. "Simply, there was a Ferrari with two people in it. One of these men was driving."

Just as murky is Eriksson's connection to the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority.

The organization is a privately run nonprofit that has agreements with Monrovia and Sierra Madre to provide bus rides for disabled residents.

On its website, the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority lists its address as 148 E. Lemon Ave. in Monrovia. The location is Homer's Auto Service, an auto repair shop.

A transit authority bus was parked in one of its driveways, but nothing on the storefront indicated it was a headquarters for the agency. Inside, a young woman, who declined to give her name, said she was a dispatcher for the transit authority. She telephoned someone she said was an agency official, who declined to be interviewed.

According to the website, the organization also has its own police department with a chief, detectives and marked police cruisers. Sheriff's investigators said Eriksson told deputies that he was deputy commissioner of the department's anti-terrorism unit.

But Monrovia Police Chief Roger Johnson said he found that the department is less than meets the eye.

"I don't know if they have a police department to go with the website," he said.

In a brief interview, transit authority board member Yosuf Maiwandi said Eriksson had helped the police department's anti-terrorism unit with camera technology for the paratransit vehicles.

Eriksson's civil attorney, Ashley Posner, is chairman of the transit authority board. Posner declined to comment; Eriksson's criminal attorney did not return calls seeking comment.

Officials in cities where the agency does business said they didn't know why a small transit authority needs a police department.

"We do not see the need for a ground transportation system for handicapped and disabled folks to have a police agency," Monrovia City Manager Scott Ochoa said. "We warned them that if the police agency operated with them in the city of Monrovia, it would jeopardize their [transit] agreement with us."

It remains unclear how Eriksson, who lives in a gated Bel-Air estate, came to work with the transit agency.

Alan Deal, spokesman for the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, said he has never heard of the transit authority's police department. Most police agencies are part of the commission, which governs training standards for officers in the state.

But Deal said some specialized departments are not members, and there are provisions in state public utilities law that allow for transit police agencies to be run by private transit providers.

Sheriff's Sgt. Brooks said Eriksson voluntarily gave a DNA swab, which will be used to determine whether his blood was on the driver's side airbag.

Eriksson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.09% — just over the 0.08% limit — and could face drunk driving charges if he was the driver, Brooks said.

Another mystery is the Glock ammunition magazine found near the crash. Brooks said detectives believe it's connected to the crash but don't know how

video of Stefan Eriksson in his black enzo

[jeffgrant]

Man... you couldn't make this stuff up. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.