Jeffrey Tidus' Rolling Hills Estates Murder Mystery Sees $100,000 Reward
The mysterious case of Jeffrey Tidus, a well-respected attorney gunned down in his Prius outside his Rolling Hills Estates home on Dec. 7, 2009, is surely headed for the fame of a film or even an episode of 48 Hours Mystery.
Tidus.
Maybe.
You see, more than two years later, authorities still haven't caught the killer, and it seems they don't even have a clue.
This week the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved ...
... adding $10,000 to the reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the 53-year-old lawyer.
Supervisor Don Knabe proposed the bump in reward money. His spokeswoman, Cheryl Burnett, told the Weekly the total amount now stands at a whopping $100,000 -- a large purse for a county where homicides happen everyday.
Such big reward cash is sometimes a sign that the investigation has stalled. We hope not.
He was shot down in one of SoCal's most exclusive neighborhoods, outside his Sugar Hill Drive home.
There's a lot of speculation about the Tidus case because, while he was known as a kind soul who did some pretty sublime pro-bono work, he also duked it out with some powerful corporate characters and often represented the now-laothed banking segment, including, according to the Weekly's Jill Stewart:
Hawthorne Savings, California Federal Savings, Aames Financial, First Alliance Mortgage Company, First Los Angeles Bank, Tokai Bank -- and the failed subprime mortgage lender New Century Financial.
According to the Los Angeles Times he twice won $10 million-plus settlements for clients. Enough to kill over?
If you have info on Tidus slaying, call sheriff's homicide detectives at 323-890-5500.
The story's not over yet.
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