Bert and Bill Lasky's alleged killer faces justice
Mr. Bartholomew has an amazing, heartbreaking story of a terrible West Hills murder in today's paper.
Using his unique, masterful touch, he sets it up like this:
WEST HILLS - She was the bubbie who could turn matzo balls - and nearly everything else - into gold. He was the grandpa who couldn't get enough cuddling with his grandkids.
On a winter day nearly seven years ago, Bert Lasky was kibitzing with her niece on the phone. Bill, her husband of 53 years, had just sat down for lunch and a friendly game of Skip-Bo.
It would be the last time anyone in their family would see them before they were savagely slain.
"I remember waving at her goodbye. She was on the phone. That was the last time I ever spoke with her," said daughter Beth Lasky, a professor of special education, choking back tears at her office at California State University, Northridge.
"I know for me, I feel that I've become angry at everything. There was not a day that went by when I didn't talk to my parents."
Today, one of the men implicated in the stabbing deaths of William Lasky, 76, and his wife, Bertha, 73, is finally expected go on trial in Van Nuys Superior Court.
Gregory Douglas Miner, 32, faces life in prison without parole if convicted on two counts of murder, with special circumstances of committing robbery and burglary.
For the whole thing, click here. The whole thing gives me the shivers.