In 2023, Haskell had been living with his wife, their three young children, and her parents in Tarzana, California. The body was so unrecognizable after being chopped into pieces that it took the Los Angeles coroner’s office more than a month to make a positive identification. The same afternoon, Haskell was seen on video disposing of a black garbage bag in the Encino strip-mall. A lawyer for the Haskell family, Joseph A Weimortz Jr, told NBC News that Haskell was “not afraid of prison, but was afraid of an even larger media spectacle”, and how it would impact his children. “The Haskell family grieves every single life lost in this case.’Andrew Gumbel contributed reporting