The Death of Robert Thompson

An 11 year old girl is kicking a socker ball around in her los angeles neighborhood when it accidentally ends up on the roof of a nearby building. In the old building, which it had been a half way house, but it had been abandoned a few years ago, and it has a chimney. So naturally curious, she peeks down inside chimney and finds herself looking at a human skull. A forensic anthropologist estimates the body as that of an african american boy aged around 12 to 15 years old. L a p d detective chris barling,. who's been assigned to the case, has his own hunch that this young teen had been murdered. He had