California police investigating plumber for murder discover another possible victim after spotting odd bank transactions



California police believe a plumber would have gotten away with murdering an elderly man if they had not spotted an odd detail in his bank statements while investigating another murder.

38-year-old Rotherie Durell Foster was in jail for allegedly killing his friend in 2022, but he has also been charged for the murder of one his clients who was previously believed to have died of natural causes.

The Camarillo man was charged in the murder of 35-year-old José Antonio Velásquez, who also worked as a plumber. Velásquez went missing in July 2022, and his remains were found months later in the Santa Monica mountains, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Office.

'Potential for murder for financial gain.'

Prosecutors said that Foster used a gun to "violently" obtain financial information of Velásquez and then buy gas, clothing, and food with the stolen money.

While police were building their case against Foster for that murder, they noticed that he had a connection to the death of an elderly man whose remains were found on Jan. 10, 2022.

72-year-old Bill Dean Levy was found dead at his home in Granada Hills, and officials did not consider it a suspicious incident, so an autopsy was not conducted. Levy was believed to have died of natural causes, and his remains were buried.

That might have been the end of the story until detectives noticed that Levy had made multiple payments to Foster through his bank account.

The strange thing was that those payments were made on Jan. 11, a day after the man had died.

Police immediately suspected that the payments could have been a pattern similar to those made after the death of Velásquez, or as they described it, “potential for murder for financial gain.”

Investigators then discovered that Foster had completed plumbing work for Levy at his home several times.

In order to find out whether there was another homicide case, officials exhumed the remains of Levy. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office then found that he had not died of natural causes but from fentanyl exposure, and his cause of death was changed to homicide.

Officials said other evidence tied Foster to Levy's death, and they charged him for his murder.

Even more possible victims

Police are investigating other suspicious bank exchanges from another Los Angeles man to Foster. And he has been charged in an armed robbery of a convenience store in July 2022.

Foster faces 33 felony charges including murder in the first degree, murder in the commission of a burglary, identity theft, and forgery.

He had previously been convicted as a juvenile of involuntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon. Officials said he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, but they're not sure how much of that he actually served.

Police said that Levy lived alone and donated his entire estate to numerous charities including the American Heart Association and Children’s Hospital.

Here's the video news report about the case from KTLA-TV.

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Cali residents FLEEING hellhole as San Francisco now leads the US in PLUMMETING home values



There's no question that the West Coast is home to some of the most beautiful places in the country and perhaps even the world.

However, it’s also home to the failed state of California, specifically the city of San Francisco — which is now overrun by the homeless and has streets covered in feces and drug needles.

According to Lauren Chen, it’s also home to “sky-high property prices, excessive taxes and regulations, the state actively trying to trans your kids behind your back,” and “rolling blackouts, looting.”

“All of the above mentioned are very real problems that the people living in these cities and in these states have to deal with on a daily basis,” Chen adds.

Because of these issues, Californians who can afford to leave are fleeing in masses. However, many people deserting the state won’t get back the top dollar they paid to live there.

A recent article from Newsmax reports that San Francisco is now topping the U.S. in plunging home values.

The article states: “About one in eight (12.3%) homes that sold in San Francisco during the three months ending July 31 was purchased for less than the seller paid for it, up from 5% a year earlier. That’s a higher share than any other major U.S. metro and is quadruple the national rate (3%).”

Chen believes this data is concerning because “it means number one: a lot of people who invested in the real estate market in San Francisco, in New York, they’re going to be taking major losses. Number two: we also have to keep in mind that this decline in prices isn’t because of something like increased housing opportunity.”

Rather, it’s “because people are actually packing up and just leaving the city, leaving these states.”

While Chen believes the issues that are causing people to leave are a direct result of who they voted for, she hopes that they’re capable of realizing that themselves.

“You’re not liking the crime, you’re not liking how it’s getting harder and harder to run a business. I don’t see how you can simultaneously still be liberal, still be Democrat, because guess what, there’s no one else that you have to blame in those situations than the Democrats.”


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