An image Burkhart used for her massage service.

Well, more than 50 arson fires later, including a three day spree that ended the day after New Year's, and mom is still going back to Germany, it would seem:

U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Thom Mrozek this morning announced that ...

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Pedro Espinoza, dead man walking.

Pedro Espinoza, now 23 years old, was declared guilty on May 9 of first-degree murder for killing 17-year-old football star Jamiel Shaw in 2008. The verdict came with a gang enhancement, for the killer's affiliation with the 18th Street Gang of West Adams. And today, the jury recommended he be sentenced to death for the crime.

Espinoza's status as an illegal immigrant...

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One of the suspects accused of killing two USC grad students last month says on his Facebook page that he attends arch-rival school UCLA.

Bryan Barnes says he attends UCLA and that he was scheduled to graduate with the class of 2014. This comes as the Los Angeles Times reported that he and suspect Javier Bolden were affiliated with a party crew called "No Respect Inc." that they promoted on their Facebook pages.

In fact, the two were tied to ...

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A special circumstance of "multiple murders and murder during commission of a robbery" means the duo would be eligible for the death penalty if they're convicted, according to a statement from the L.A. County District Attorney's office.

The pair was scheduled ...

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Beer & Wine Market is tucked into a Hawaiian Gardens strip mall.

A customer reportedly called the L.A. County Sheriff after wandering into the store Monday afternoon and finding no one there. The market was open, but all its lights were turned off.

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A freelance TV journalist at the scene said the victim was wearing women's clothes, according to City News Service.

Police said the attack punctuated a heated argument about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday in the 300 block of North Orlando Avenue, which is near Beverly Boulevard and just a few blocks east of Beverly Center. The suspect was identified by the LAPD this weekend as ...

An assault at Dodger Stadium last night had echoes of the Bryan Stow incident, in which a Giants fan was beaten at the 2011 home opener, but luckily the victim's injuries in this case were not life-threatening.

The fracas, first reported by @LAScanner on Twitter, happened before 9 p.m. in parking lot 3.

ABC7 tracked down the rest of the story and found out this is what happened:

Ying Wu and Ming Qu.

Police arrested two suspects in the murders of USC grad students Ying Wu and Ming Qu, LAPD Lt. Andy Neiman told the Weekly.

Details of the arrests were being made public at a news conference as we spoke, so he wasn't able to give us more information.

The duo was gunned down ...

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And props to this little guy for breaking through a champion's tackle by a store security guard during his heist at the Westfield Century City Mall. Impressive.

Here's what cops say happened:

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Hungry for sledgehammer.

Nope. According to Sergeant Richard Lewis at the Santa Monica Police Department, these geniuses simply smashed the glass door down with a sledgehammer, grabbed what they could off the display tables -- $31,000 in laptops, iPhones, iPods, and iPads -- and booked it toward Wilshire. Needless to say, it didn't take an FBI probe to track them down:

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Silver Lake, land of the hipster, home of gentrification. Sure. Look at the Mercedes SLK in our Google maps photo.

Still, people forget that it's also a barrio and, as such, people get murdered. Most of the city of L.A.'s streets are claimed by one gang or another, even in the Westside and the so-called new Eastside of Silver Lake and Echo Park.

Cops happened upon a killing near Silver Lake last night:

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Katrina Frausto's husband was gunned down on Mother's Day.

He was reportedly parking his car at his home around 7:25 p.m., his wife Katrina in the passenger's seat and his 5-year-old daughter in the back, when an unknown suspect walked up to his window and shot Frausto twice in the chest.

LAPD detectives think it might have been a case of extreme road rage:

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'Opportunistic Bandit.'

But cops today announced they're looking for perhaps L.A.'s first serial carjacker, a man they're calling the "opportunistic bandit." And he's violent.

The LAPD says the bandit has hit areas from the Westside to the Valley this spring, including:

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He was referring to returning senior Ken McRoyal, a Carson High School graduate who was gunned down outside a party at The Brewery Artist Lofts northeast of downtown yesterday.

According to reports McRoyal was in good spirits, hanging out with friends, and had just arrived at a party at the former Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery when an argument broke out and the 22-year-old was fatally shot:

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But it happened to Stephanie Lazarus, a beloved LAPD art-crime investigator who, it turned out, murdered the wife of her ex-boyfriend in jealous rage in 1986 and lived with the crime until DNA connected her to the slaying in 2009.

Today Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry sentenced the ex-cop to ...

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UCLA at night.

It's been a bad academic year for creepy crimes at UCLA. Authorities have had to deal with at least three sexual assaults on campus.

And now comes this:

A burglar entered two dorm rooms at the Westwood school over the weekend. In one case, he took cash, according to ...

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Here's the deal, according an announcement by L.A. County Sheriff's officials this week:

A crew of bike thieves targeted victims who had high-end bicycles for sale on Craigslist:

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"RIP Frankie you will never be forgotten"

"He was walking to the liquor store with his cousin," says Detective Stephanie Carrillo. She says "it's unknown at this time" whether the shooting was gang-related.

Twitter exchanges between Velasquez' friends and family...

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No peace and quiet at Pasadena Residential Care.

Pasadena Police Department spokeswoman Tracey Ibarra says that Shatford is currently being examined by the L.A. County Coroner -- but she adds that when police found him, he appeared to have "injuries towards his neck."

While they were inspecting the body, another patient at the center...

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Still, shit happens, even in West L.A:

Cops say robbers hit the Pavilion in spectacular style: