It sounds like the plot to a movie, but a heavily armed dead guy found decomposing inside his locked car in posh Pacific Palisades this week is a ‘secret agent man’ whose identity cannot apparently be traced.
This is what his fiancée has told police and what investigators are very tempted to believe since finding an amazing arsenal of weaponry stashed at his home, most of which was brand new.
Whoever and whatever he is, so far 1200 guns and nearly seven tons of ammo have been seized from his residence, in addition to countless scopes, knives, machetes, bows, arrows, and a quarter-million-dollars in cash.
The mystery man also owned over a dozen personal vehicles (including one that can be driven underwater) all of which he stored at various locations in the Los Angeles area.
His lady friend said the last she saw of her secret agent man -- who goes by the surname of Lash -- was about two weeks ago when he appeared to be stricken with a serious ailment but refused to call a doctor or go to a hospital for fear of discovery.
He allegedly died later that day and, per his prior orders, she and some associates placed his body in a car and parked it a short distance from his house, where, Lash had assured, the government would easily find it and know how to dispose of his remains.
The woman then left in a distraught state for Oregon, she said. But upon returning this week she was alarmed to see her beau rotting where he’d been left and, disregarding his previous instructions, immediately notified authorities.
According to the woman’s attorney the two had been a couple for 17 years and she knew only what she’d been told: That Lash was an undercover operative for a number of unnamed spy agencies and had been exposed to nerve gas during one of his last missions, the lingering effects of which were slowly killing him.
“The story itself sounds totally crazy, but then how do you explain all this?” her lawyer publicly conceded yesterday. “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income -- no stolen property -- all the stuff you’d look for.”
Likely the dead man was a paranoid gunrunner and simply died of a heart attack. However, LAPD detectives haven’t been able to confirm or refute anybody’s claims about him yet, and, despite working the case for nearly a week already, they’re still not even sure of his age and true identity…
