El Matadero

In the late 1950's, the U.S. Department of Defense used the drainage tunnels underneath Los Angeles to secretly transport nuclear weapons to their Cold War storage facilities in the hills ab... Read allIn the late 1950's, the U.S. Department of Defense used the drainage tunnels underneath Los Angeles to secretly transport nuclear weapons to their Cold War storage facilities in the hills above Pasadena. These tunnels were eventually abandoned but left unsealed. In 2003, the muti... Read allIn the late 1950's, the U.S. Department of Defense used the drainage tunnels underneath Los Angeles to secretly transport nuclear weapons to their Cold War storage facilities in the hills above Pasadena. These tunnels were eventually abandoned but left unsealed. In 2003, the mutilated body of immigrant Lucy Hernandez was found dumped in one of those tunnels. An hour l... Read all