adjustercom.com
adjustercom.net
The Stockwell Firm adjustercom publishes your thoughts and ideas...
Home
News

 Features


Other Claims News
People
Forums
The Comp Examiner Directory
The Liability Adjuster Directory
Service Provider Directory
Post a Job
View Jobs
Resumes
View Resumes
Contact Us

Adjusters Friend

jobs.adjustercom.com

 

Place Your Banner Here With A Click

 

adjustercom.net - FraudFromInsideAndOutsideTheCourtroom

 


Welcome Guest! | Login | Register with adjustercom
 
 
News

News Archive

Email a Friend Email A Friend

More News

March 25, 2024
California Division of Workers' Compensation Posts Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule (Physician Services / Non-Physician Practitioner Services)

March 19, 2024
Nearly half of all litigated workers' compensation claims in the Los Angeles basin are cumulative trauma claims.

March 7, 2024
California's Division of Workers' Compensation Posts Adjustment to Official Medical Fee Schedule (Ambulance Services)

March 6, 2024
Accident Claims The Life of AdminSure Claims Adjuster Alexis Wicker



LA Times Reports On Grand Jury Transcript Of Secret Proceedings Against Kelly Soo Park. Dr. Munir Uwaydah Not Even Mentioned.
By Lonce LaMon - December 6, 2010

The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday, Sunday, both on the web and in paper print, that they got the transcript last week of the Los Angeles Court Grand Jury proceedings from October 2010 on the Juliana Redding murder case, and that the evidence against Kelly Soo Park is egregiously damning.  The transcript and its contents have now been made public for the first time.

Detectives testified that the young actress, model, and murder victim, 21-year-old Juliana Redding, had called 911 from her bungalow style Santa Monica, California, apartment for help while terrifyingly fighting for her life at 9:52 pm on March 15th 2008, but that her attacker grabbed the cell phone out of her hand and hung up the call.  It is believed Juliana was murdered very shortly after this 911 call, close to 10 pm.  According to a pathologist, Juliana had broken capillaries in her eyes as a result of her killer having clenched her throat so tightly.  Not only was her air supply cut off, but her blood flow was stopped.  Bones in her neck had been crushed and scratches under her chin, the forensic pathologist testified, came from Juliana's own fingernails as she fought desperately to break her attacker's grip. 

Most egregiously damning is that the DNA code found on Juliana Redding's cell phone, skin and clothes, the stove top, and a drop of blood found on a plate, all matched Kelly Soo Park's DNA. 

"DNA was recovered from every single one of those surfaces inside that bungalow," Prosecutor Alan Jackson said.  "Every single one of them came back with DNA matching Kelly Soo Park."

It's interesting that the Grand Jury heard no mention of Munir Uwaydah, M.D., the infamous workers' compensation treating doctor and business associate slash boss of Kelly Soo Park.  One can conjecture that Alan Jackson and the other prosecutors simply wanted to focus heavily on the physical evidence linking Kelly Soo to the crime scene. 

But in previous court hearings, Alan Jackson has referred to Kelly Soo's boss as Dr. Munir Uwaydah, a person of "extreme" interest.  The Lebanese doctor who owns a few properties in Marina Del Rey, California, and had used one or more of them often as business addresses, had had a personal and sexual interest in Juliana Redding.  Apparently Juliana saw Uwaydah for a time, but then dumped him based on her father's information that Uwaydah was married.  A long time "best friend" of Greg Redding's, an Estonian American man, found out through the Estonian Press and Media that Dr. Munir Uwaydah was married to an Estonian woman who was living at Uwaydah's residence in Lebanon, presumably with his mother. The Estonian-American friend then told this information to Greg Redding, who in turn told his daughter. Uwaydah had not disclosed this information to Juliana, in the manner that he never disclosed the fact that he was married to an Estonian woman and also to a German woman in a common-law marriage with whom he lived in Marina Del Rey, and with whom he had young twin children, to any of the many other women he pursued.

I saw and spoke to one of Munir Uwaydah's lawyers in court last Friday, December 3rd.  I was sitting in on a case Uwaydah has against a real estate sales representative who represented a hospital being sold in a bankruptcy that Uwaydah wanted to buy.  When the bankruptcy trustee didn't sell Uwaydah the hospital based on information gathered from other sources that Uwaydah had just been through bankruptcy himself, and based on his own records presented did not have enough money to buy the hospital, he sued Cindy Ogden. She assisted in selling the hospital on behalf of the trustee to another buyer, who was more financially qualified.  Uwaydah alleges she broke an alleged contract.  But what Uwaydah wanted was for the buyer of the whole group of properties, to put up Uwaydah's down payment of over one million dollars into escrow in order to guarantee that the general buyer would sell Uwaydah the hospital portion out of the greater set of medical facility properties pooled together in the bankruptcy.  Ogden states that such a manner of doing business is unprecedented.

Cindy Ogden represented the bankruptcy trustee overseeing the Monrovia Hospital on 513 Lime Street in Monrovia, California, and a couple of other medical office buildings.  She said about Uwaydah, "If he can't screw you, he'll sue you."  Cindy met Kelly Soo Park at the Ritz Carlton in Marine Del Rey back in 2007 when Uwaydah sent Kelly Soo to negotiate for the Monrovia hospital on his behalf. 

Richard Green is now Uwaydah's lawyer representing him in this lawsuit against Ogden and another party, but apparantly Green did not realize I was a journalist when I introduced myself as I was sitting behind him in the Pasadena Court House last Friday and started asking him questions.

He said to me, "I think this is the last case I will be representing for this client..."  And I replied, "Dr. Uwaydah?" And he responded "No, Frontline Medical."

I asked him where Munir Uwaydah was, at this time.  Green replied that he thinks he knows, but cannot say.  He stated subtly that he doubts Uwaydah will ever come back to the US.  He talks to him about once a week by phone, but stated that there's no way he is here in California, that would be very doubtful; and that he is not in Cyprus either--that Island east of Greece and bordering Turkey. Green gave me the solid impression that Uwaydah is definitely not in the United States at this time.

But that information from Green conflicts with other rumors circulating in the medical professional community which state Uwaydah is now in California, and possibly working at Coast Plaza Doctors' Hospital in Norwalk. There has been at least one "Uwaydah sighting" told by a medical doctor who said an acquaintance claims to have seen Munir Uwaydah in the flesh recently somewhere in Southern California.

In the transcript of the Grand Jury proceeding, Prosecutors described what they interpreted as a hasty clean up attempt at the crime scene.  A bottle of household cleaner and a scrub brush were found on the kitchen counter.  Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson told jurors there was a burning candle on the coffee table and the stove had the gas on with the pilot light extinguished.

Officer Scott McGowan, who entered Juliana Redding's apartment the next day, March 16th 2008, shortly after 6:00 pm, testified that the wax of the candle on the coffee table had mostly melted away, causing him to figure that it had been burning for many hours. Prosecutors have alleged that Park turned on the gas and lighted the candle hoping to cause an explosion that would destroy any evidence linking her to the killing.

Officer McGowan also testified that he could see Redding's body on the bed in the bedroom from where he stood in the kitchen. There was a deep purple discoloration on the bottoms of her feet and on the backs of her thighs--a sign her heart had stopped pumping hours earlier and blood had begun to pool.  He knew she was dead, McGowan told the Grand Jury.

Police also found traces of saliva belonging to actor Brian Van Holt on Juliana Redding's body.  Van Holt, who declined to comment to the Los Angeles Times reporters through a publicist, was granted immunity by prosecutors in exchange for his testimony.  He told the Grand Jury he and Juliana had been in an "intimate relationship" and were out together the night before she was killed.

March 15th 2008 was a Saturday, so Juliana must have come home early for a Saturday night, as she tried to call 911 just before 10 pm; or else she had not gone out at all.  Brian Van Holt must have been with her the night before: Friday night. It's interesting that an unidentified woman talked to me at Kelly Soo Park's hearing last Wednesday, December 1st, and told me she hopes I'll start writing the truth. When I approached the front door of the court house as I was leaving, I asked that woman about the DNA evidence. She denied there being any real DNA evidence from Kelly Soo. She said, "What DNA? Who knows that?"

Well, the police detectives know that. That's who knows that.

Readers may write to writer Lonce LaMon at lonce@adjustercom.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 Hot Jobs


Adjuster / Examiner
Claims Examiner
Santa Ana Unified School District
Santa Ana, CA
View All Jobs

The J Morey Company

Build Your Brand

jobs.adjustercom.com

The J Morey Company


    Copyright 2024 | Privacy Policy | Feedback |  

Web site engine's code is Copyright © 2003 by PHP-Nuke. All Rights Reserved. PHP-Nuke is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license.