Foreword
"Let’s jack. …"Paul Soto said these words to Michael Alvarado as he approached a truck at a mall parking lot near Los Angeles, California. Alvarado then walked to the passenger side of the vehicle, while Soto pulled a gun and moved on the driver. A shot was fired, and the truck’s owner, Francisco Castaneda, was killed.This is how 17-year-old Alvarado described the events that occurred shortly after midnight on September 22, 1995, to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Cheryl Comstock following two and a half hours of questioning a little over a month later. He further explained that following the…
