2021-07-07
1 小时 32 分钟This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and sexual assault that will likely be disturbing for some listeners.
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Reuben Flores was born in Compton, California, on April 9, 1941.
Susan Charles was born ten years later in New York City and raised by a young mother who would go on to marry a man she later had six more children with.
Rubin served for four years in the US Navy, reaching a level of third class petty officer before being honorably discharged in 1963.
He then got a job with general telephone, later GTE, where he worked for the next several decades, even staying on board when they became Verizon in 2000.
Up until his retirement sometime in the mid sixties, he worked for a few years as a reserve police officer for the Redondo Beach Police Department.
As a reserve officer, what duties did you have?
Just back up an officer on patrol.
And did you have occasion to do that?
Yes.
Why did you cease employment in that line of work?
I wasn't employed.
I was just a volunteer fire.
For years, he and Susan would keep an antique police baton hanging in the entryway of their home until it was seized by San Luis Obispo Sheriff's detective Henry Stewart on July 18, 1996, during the first search of their white court home.
It's unclear when Rubin stopped working for the Redondo Beach PD, as Rubin himself can't even seem to remember the years he was there when asked about it during his 1997 deposition.
In the late sixties, he was also married to a woman named Gail, though he also claims not to remember when that happened or when it ended.
But during this time, Susan is attending a catholic high school in Upper Manhattan, where she graduates.
In 1969, she gets a job at a bank on 38th and Broadway before relocating the following year to be with her family in Redondo Beach, California.
Taking a job at another bank there, she transfers to a Torrance branch, and that seems to be where, in 1971, she meets Ruben Flores, who she marries on August 7, 1971, only a year after moving to California.