Matthew Heller

Credit: ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN BARTLETT

An Assassination in Silver Lake

The windy backstreets of Silver Lake are pretty quiet in the predawn hours. At around 5 a.m. last Aug. 7, Juan David Vasquez Loma decided to take one of those r...

L.A. Mob Does Vegas

It's a case that began with surveillance of a Las Vegas storefront and ended with the assassination of one of the gambling mecca's most notorious underworld figures. It includes some 1,700 audio- and videotapes, confidential informants, and a former defendant-turned-witness who says he has Tourette's syndrome and attention deficit disorder......