A 22-year-old man was charged Thursday with killing an “American Idol” music supervisor and her musician husband who walked into their Encino house throughout a housebreaking.
Raymond Boodarian is accused of fatally capturing Robin Kaye and her husband Tom DeLuca on July 10, although their our bodies weren’t discovered by Los Angeles Police till 4 days later after police have been despatched to the house for a welfare test.
Boodarian is charged with two counts of homicide with enhancements for allegedly killing the couple throughout the fee of a theft, deliberately utilizing a firearm, and committing a number of murders. He’s additionally charged with housebreaking.
Throughout an preliminary courtroom look in Van Nuys Thursday afternoon, Boodarian was ordered to stay in jail. His arraignment was delayed till Aug. 20.
If convicted, Boodarian would face both life with out parole or being sentenced to demise if prosecutors search the demise penalty.
In response to police, officers visited the Encino house across the time Boodarian was believed to be inside.
LAPD responded to a report of a doable break-in at 4 p.m. July 10 and decided that nothing appeared misplaced on the couple’s residence, LAPD Lt. Man Golan mentioned.
Officers on foot reported that the property was locked and nobody responded inside, whereas a police helicopter from overhead reported not seeing something suspicious.
Kaye and DeLuca’s our bodies have been found Monday when officers responded to a welfare test on the couple’s houses within the 4700 block of White Oak Avenue. The next day, officers with a joint LAPD/FBI job power arrested Boodarian.
In response to police, Kaye, an “American Idol” music supervisor and her rock musician husband, DeLuca, have been returning to their $4.5-million Encino house after they came across Booderian already inside.
Booderian allegedly shot Kaye and DeLuca a number of instances then ran off, locking the door behind him. Although the couple’s home was effectively fortified, police mentioned, the suspect had managed to get in by an unlocked door.
In response to Golan, the division obtained a name at 4 p.m. the day the couple was killed and the caller described seeing an individual climbing over a fence into the property. Golan mentioned officers went to the house, however didn’t get any response and noticed nothing misplaced, and a helicopter was flown over the property as a result of it was troublesome to entry.
By then, the couple had already been killed, LAPD officers mentioned. Boodarian left after about half an hour, police mentioned.
The delay to find Kaye and DeLuca’s our bodies bore similarities to 2 different homicides within the Valley the place police have been known as the situation and didn’t instantly discover a sufferer and left the scene.
Menashe Hidra’s physique was discovered April 26 inside his fifth-floor Valley Village house after an assailant broke right into a neighboring unit, jumped from the balcony to his unit and attacked him, investigators mentioned.
Three days earlier than, neighbors had known as 911 and reported listening to shouting and a wrestle coming from the house. Officers responded to these calls, knocked on the door and left with out discovering something. Erick Escamilla, 27, was ultimately charged with the killing, together with an unrelated murder from 2022.
The identical day that Hidra’s physique was found, police discovered the physique of Aleksandre Modebadze, who was overwhelmed to demise inside his Woodland Hills house. In that case, a girl inside the house known as LAPD about 12:30 a.m. and reported three folks had damaged into her house and have been beating her important different earlier than the decision all of a sudden reduce out, in keeping with legislation enforcement sources. The 911 operator tried to name again a number of instances with out success. Shortly earlier than 1 a.m., officers arrived on the house however nobody answered the door, there was no noise coming from inside the house and the blinds have been down, the sources advised The Instances.
Modebadze was later discovered by officers badly overwhelmed with a traumatic head harm and ultimately died of his accidents. Authorities discovered Modebadze’s suspected killers hours after the incident.
On this Encino case, Golan mentioned the division would examine why the couple, who have been each 70, weren’t discovered earlier and whether or not the officers concerned acted appropriately. LAPD officers mentioned the entrance door of the house was not seen from the skin throughout the preliminary response.
In response to courtroom data, Boodarian was charged in three cases of misdemeanor battery final 12 months. These prices have been finally dropped a sequence of hearings associated to his psychological competency and a conservatorship investigation.
