{"id":65884,"date":"2025-07-14T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65884\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:31:14","slug":"son-of-hollywood-producer-in-triple-murder-found-dead-in-l-a-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65884\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Hollywood Producer in Triple Murder Found Dead in L.A. Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSamuel Haskell<\/a> Jr., the son of Emmy-winning producer and former William Morris agent Sam Haskell, who was accused of killing and dismembering his wife and in-laws, died by suicide in his jail cell on Saturday. He was 37. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe younger Haskell\u2019s death comes days before he was set to face a judge and answer for the alleged triple murder, the Los Angeles district attorney announced today.<\/p>\n

\n\tSamuel Haskell Jr., who was charged in late 2023 with the murders of his wife, Mei Haskell, and her parents, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li, was found dead in his cell at Twin Towers downtown jail after 4 a.m. on Saturday. Haskell was seen wearing a suicide smock while attending his most recent court hearing, NBC News Los Angeles reported<\/a>, and was under \u201cmoderate moderation\u201d for self-harm in the jail.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cInstead of standing before a judge and answering for the crimes he\u2019s been charged with, the defendant managed to escape justice,\u201d District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement on Monday, calling the 37-year-old\u2019s death by suicide his \u201clast cruel act by someone who did the most horrific things for reasons we will never entirely know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHaskell had been charged with three counts of murder as well as the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders. Haskell was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole, Hochman added that the family that has been dealing with unimaginable loss now has been robbed of their chance to face him, hold him accountable for his barbaric actions and openly share their grief and their cherished memories of their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe L.A. District Attorney\u2019s office said in its press release<\/a> that it had planned to present evidence at Haskell\u2019s preliminary hearing stating that on or around Nov. 6, 2023, Haskell had murdered and decapitated Mei Li Haskell, 37 and murdered her mother, 64-year-old Yanxiang Wang, and her stepfather Gaoshan Li, 71, in a Tarzana home. The D.A.\u2019s office alleges that he then paid $500 to several day laborers to take away heavy black plastic trash bags from the home he shared with the victims. After hauling the bags away, the laborers looked inside and found body parts; they immediately returned the bags to Haskell, took a photo of him and alerted the police, according to the D.A.\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaskell was caught on camera dumping one of the black bags into a trash dumpster in Encino that same day and later moving bags from a Tesla registered to his wife into a rented SUV, the office said, adding that the Tesla was recovered at this location, which is near an Airbnb he was renting and housing his three children. On Nov. 8, a torso was found inside one of the bags and, the D.A. says, determined to be that of Mei Li Haskell by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, via kinship analysis.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaaskell was arrested on Nov. 8 while driving the SUV \u2014 which was rented on Nov. 3, days before the murders were believed to have occurred. Evidence that the D.A.\u2019s office said it planned to submit to the court included a Home Depot receipt dated Oct. 20, 2023, found in Haskell\u2019s wallet, which included the purchase of plywood, canopy, moisture barrier, coveralls and diamond-saw blades. Los Angeles police reported finding a .357 loaded revolver inside a holster inside the rented SUV along with 32 rounds of live ammunition, a blood-encrusted military-style knife, a headlamp and firearm sight and passports for himself, his wife and their children.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the family home, police said they found \u201ceight black plastic trash bags filled with bloody bedding, towels, a large machine saw, diamond-saw blades, a machete, a plywood board covered in blood, multiple pairs of disposable gloves and canes belonging to Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshan Li,\u201d whose remains, according to the D.A.\u2019s press release, still have not been discovered. DNA testing of blood found on some of the items matched victim DNA.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe D.A. said that police reported having learned that Haskell had been having an affair with a 27-year-old woman and had told her just before the murders took place that his children would \u201csoon be living with his parents.\u201d On the same day that Haskell rented the SUV, he had asked the woman to accompany him on a trip to Japan and had purchased her a ticket to come there later in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHaskell had pleaded not guilty to the murders with special circumstances charges and faced life without the possibility of parole if convicted on any of the three counts with which he was charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Haskell Jr., the son of Emmy-winning producer and former William Morris agent Sam Haskell, who was accused…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,4219,2961,224,5337,46757],"class_list":{"0":"post-65884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-samuel-haskell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853726367456981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}