This is really shocking and so senseless. Cori Desmond was a bartender down in Southern California and after getting off work on Valentine's Day, a Saturday night in 2008, she went to the BAC Bar to drink with friends and party. This was a fatal mistake that Cori would not live to regret. First let me say that NO ONE has a right to take another person's life. But if you get drunk and go walking the streets at 2:30am in the morning, you are just asking for trouble in my opinion. Especially, if you are a female. I am a dude and it only took one time for me to learn that no good happens after dark. I had just left a bar in San Francisco and it was like 2am or so. I was walking to the bus stop so that I could go to the Transbay Terminal and catch a bus back to Oakland when a woman walking by asked me for money and I said "fuck you bitch, I don't have any money for you" then out of no where this dude steps out of the shadows of this building and grabs my arm and says, "give her some money mother fucker". So I kicked him in his groin and broke free of his grip and ran the fastest I have ever run in my life. Luckily for me, by the time I reached the corner of the next block, a bus came and I jumped on it and got away. I was just 19yrs old and I could have become a statistic, like Cori. Thank God I didn't.
But getting back to Cori, on that fateful Saturday night, when Cori left BAC Bar she had a blood alcohol content of 0.35; nearly 5 times the legal limit of 0.08. Now that explains why she walked past the dark street where she had parked her jeep, but it does not explain why she didn't call a cab and go home. Or call her dad to come and get her. So Cori walks another couple of blocks past her car to another bar where a friend of hers worked but was denied entry because it was after 2am and that was that bar's policy not to allow anyone into the bar after 2am. I don't understand, why Cori didn't text her friend and tell her she was coming or text her friend and say, hey, I'm outside your bar tell them to let me in or come out and get me? But it probably wouldn't have done her any good, because her friend had already left work. However, if she had texted her friend, she would have texted her back and told her she was at home amd to come on over or something. Anyway, shortly after Cori was denied entry to the bar where her friend worked, she was attacked and murdered in the street, by a guy who had been drinking at the BAC Bar where she had just come from. The police call it a stranger killing, but I think otherwise. I think this guy Tony Lopez Perez was a regular at the BAC Bar and Cori was definitely a regular there and maybe he had developed a crush on her. She was not an employee of that bar, but she often would help temd bar with her friends at the bar. There is just something about bar tenders, that makes them very sexy and alluring. And I think that is why Tony Perez followed Cori out of the bar and waited for the right moment b4 he approached her and subsequently attacked and killed her. He then put her body in his SUV and went home and went to bed with his live in girlfriend Tiffany Ware. The next day, Tony goes to work and then after work he wraps Cori's lifeless body in black trash bags and drives up in the San Bernadino Mountains and dumps her body down a ravine like a bag of trash. So cold! He then goes and buys a bunch of cleaning items and details his car. Which was very strange to his girlfriend, Tiffany, because he had NEVER done it before.
So the police exhaust all clues and have no suspects and the case goes cold. But Cori's dad is not having it. So he keeps the case alive in the media and buys space on several billboards in the area where his daughter was last seen asking for tips from the public. One of those billboards was near Tony and Tiffany's apt. So 8 months after the murder Tiffany calls in a tip to police, giving her bfs name as a possible suspect in the case. So now police are looking for Tony Perez, but there are thousands of them in Southern California. Several more months go by and Tony trades in his Dodge Durango for a Ford Expedition when he had just 2 car payments left on it, which again sent up red flags to his girlfriend. Who trades in a late model car with 2 payments left for another late model car with many payments on it? Then on a trip to the San Bernadino Mountains, with Tony, he stops and points out an area on the same road where Cori's body was found, and laments to his gf ,"I wonder if that is where they found that girl's body?" Again, red flags go up to Tiffany about Tony. First of all they've never taken a trip to the mountains b4 and why would bring up the fact that this is where they found a dead body on top of it. So again, Tiffany calls the tip line and this time she speaks directly to one of the detectives working the case. And this time she agrees to meet with him in person. She does and subsequently, she tells the police about the white durango her bf traded in and all of her other suspicions about Tony's strange behavior since the murder. Tony is subsequently brought in for questioning. At first Tony denies having met or seen Cori that night. Then he says he may have whistled at her when he saw her walking down the street. Then he says he found her unconscious in the street under a street light. Then he says he found her dead under the street light and he just panicked because he was drunk and he thought he would be blamed for her death. And that's why he moved her body. So the police take him to the street where he claims he found her and re enacts the event. And during that re enactment, when one of the detectives lays on the ground, and Tony is showing them how he shook Cori and tried to wake her up, Tony grabs the detective by the throat and starts choking the detective. Which surprises the detective. Next they take Tony to the spot in San Bernadino Mtns where CorI's body was found and have him re-enact how he dumped her body down the ravine, and that is where he finally admits that he killed her. Tony is subsequently convicted of Cori's murder and is now serving 25yrs to life for it.
So the moral of this story is, 1. don't get stinking drunk and wander down the streets at 2am in the morning, 2. if you do get drunk at 2am, call a cab and go straight home or call a friend or parent to come get you. 3. Nothing good happens after dark! (Statistically, many bad crimes happen between 11pm and 5am. ) 4. The year is 2013, NOT 1813, LOCK YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS! DO NOT GET DRUNK AND WALK THE STREETS AT NIGHT! USE COMMON SENSE WHEN YOU GO OUT PARTYING OR OUT TO DINNER. DO NOT TWEET YOUR LOCATION EVERY SECOND OF EVERY MINUTE.
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