HE WAS FOUND AT THE address in the email, an abandoned building not far from Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row. The location was quite a distance across the city from where he lived at the rectory. Immediately I wondered why he would have been there in the first place.
Det Harmon questioned me thoroughly regarding everything as it related to my acquaintance with him. And I was as forthcoming as I could be. I explained my private investigations and how it led me towards the Father, also giving them my best guess as to a potential suspect, Jeff.
He would be the only person I could think of that would have wanted me there. I know of no other friends, relatives or acquaintances of Father Ortiz other than him.
My long and exhausting day at the North County Sheriff’s office came to an end with a
