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Kyle Bonagura
@BonaguraESPN
Another time, at Pac-12 media day,
@ESPNRittenberg
and I were talking to Leach. He was our last scheduled interview before lunch. It was *supposed* to be about 10 minutes. (That is not, as it turns out, enough time to discuss the merits of rent control.)
I was living in LA at the time. Mike went to law school at Pepperdine and was familiar with the area I lived. In law school, he played in a weekly touch football game somewhere off the Sepulveda Pass. “We had all these characters out there, but there was this one guy…”
*The guy* stopped showing up. It was noticeable, but not unusual – regulars dropped out all the time. But then Mike started seeing the suspect sketches in the newspaper. “They looked a lot like him.”
I don’t remember what the timeline was – or if Leach even told us that part – but eventually, a picture of the man from the pickup football game showed up in the newspaper. He had been arrested. He was a serial killer. (And Leach had to be dragged away to his next interview)
Adam and I looked at each other, like "WTF did we just hear? Was that real life?" Then we had to shift gears back into mundane media day questions about what a great offseason everyone had. Leach was truly one of a kind.
The serial killer Leach was talking about is almost certainly Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker. All the details and the timeline line up perfectly.
Kyle Bonagura
@BonaguraESPN
Another time, at Pac-12 media day,
@ESPNRittenberg
and I were talking to Leach. He was our last scheduled interview before lunch. It was *supposed* to be about 10 minutes. (That is not, as it turns out, enough time to discuss the merits of rent control.)
I was living in LA at the time. Mike went to law school at Pepperdine and was familiar with the area I lived. In law school, he played in a weekly touch football game somewhere off the Sepulveda Pass. “We had all these characters out there, but there was this one guy…”
*The guy* stopped showing up. It was noticeable, but not unusual – regulars dropped out all the time. But then Mike started seeing the suspect sketches in the newspaper. “They looked a lot like him.”
I don’t remember what the timeline was – or if Leach even told us that part – but eventually, a picture of the man from the pickup football game showed up in the newspaper. He had been arrested. He was a serial killer. (And Leach had to be dragged away to his next interview)
Adam and I looked at each other, like "WTF did we just hear? Was that real life?" Then we had to shift gears back into mundane media day questions about what a great offseason everyone had. Leach was truly one of a kind.
The serial killer Leach was talking about is almost certainly Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker. All the details and the timeline line up perfectly.
