West Coast Killers #142: Ruined Bruins

In addition to the lack of obvious injuries or wounds on Hanna Bellevue's face and body, investigators notice that several of her personal items are missing. There's no purse in the car, which Hanna would have almost certainly had on her anytime she left the house. Even more disturbing, officers are unable to locate the keys to the vehicle. This leads them to believe that the keys are likely still in possession of whoever put her body back inside her car, locking her in after leaving. Oddly, her driver's license and student ID are both found in the glovebox. So it's almost like whoever did this very intentionally left those items behind, separate from Hanna's other personal belongings.

So with these initial findings at the scene, the latest question becomes: was this murder or an accident gone horribly wrong? Had Hanna been given some sort of party drug and died from an accidental overdose? Did whoever put her in her car have a sense of guilt, leaving behind her IDs so she could be easily identified? It's hard to say. But because there's no evidence of a struggle or injury, investigators lean into the theory that this is likely the cause of a tragic accident. Either way, at this point police know they won't get any more answers until they're able to transport Hanna's body to the medical examiner for testing.

Making the dreadful call that no parent ever wants to receive, investigators reach out to Hanna's parents, Chad and Corin Bellevue. Now, Hanna is originally from Alabama so her devastated parents have to take an evening flight out to Los Angeles, delaying their arrival on the scene. Over the phone, officers are able to ask Chad and Corin a few questions about their daughter, including if she had any known medical issues or drug allergies. Investigators also question them about drug use in general, recreational or otherwise. But Chad and Corin are adamant that their daughter does not do drugs. They also confirm that she does not have any known conditions, illnesses, or allergies.

But as they are literally transporting Hanna's body to the medical examiner—the entire UCLA Pi Beta Phi sorority chapter grieving on the steps of their shared home—LAPD officers get another call. One that changes absolutely everything about how they view Hanna's death.

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The call that LAPD officers receive at approximately 9:30 PM on February 6th 1997, less than one hour after finding Hanna Bellevue dead inside her car, alerts them to another dead UCLA student: Connor Foster. Now, UCLA is a big school and perhaps it could just be a truly tragic coincidence for the university: two unrelated deaths in one night. But the investigators have already been interviewing Hanna Bellevue's closest friends to learn more about her life—one being Aubrey Fullbright—her best friend and roommate who initially recognized Hanna inside the car. When asked about Hanna, Aubrey told investigators a bone-chilling piece of information without even knowing the second call had been made. Connor Foster isn't just some unrelated UCLA student: he's Hanna Bellevue's boyfriend.

Seriously, I can only imagine the sheer panic the on-site investigators must have been feeling when getting that bomb drop of news. According to Reporting by Nelson Rodriguez for the Bruins Chronicle, the LAPD immediately knew the thesis of Hanna's death being accidental was now seriously in jeopardy, overshadowed by something far more messy. But the horror doesn't stop there. When police arrive at Connor Foster's off-campus apartment, they don't find him the same way Hanna had been found. Instead, lying face down with all four limbs outstretched, the back of Connor's skull is bashed in, surrounded by a pool of his own blood.

Undoubtedly a murder, and a violent one at that, this leads investigators to assume that someone really wanted Connor dead, perhaps out of revenge or anger. The position of the blow indicates to police that Connor had been facing away, perhaps taken by surprise, and knocked so hard from behind that he would never get back up again. But paradoxically, the door jamb to his apartment does have indications of forced entry by way of a crowbar or other metal device, which means that whoever entered his apartment that day likely wasn't invited. According to reporting by Dominique Quinn for the Los Angeles Times, even though no murder weapon was located on site, it's clear from the nature of the blow to Connor's head that it had to have been something like a cinder block, large and square, and likely not something someone had just picked up while at Connor's apartment, like a frying pan or a hammer. This gives life to the theory that someone came to Connor's apartment on February 6th with the sole intention of killing him. Perhaps, they'd even entered the apartment by force when Connor was in class and waited for him inside. Um, serious chills.

With the mysterious deaths of two connected UCLA juniors, the chancellor of UCLA at the time cancels classes for the next forty-eight hours. This gives investigators access to any and all of Hanna and Connor's close friends and acquaintances, as well as time to sit down with both the Bellevues and the Fosters. Connor was a California native, so when his parents received the same horrific call as the Bellevues, they arrived within two hours. Investigators similarly questioned them about their son, but with even more emphasis on any drug use or potential enemies. His parents, Drew and Melinda Foster, tell officers that their son was known to smoke weed on occasion, but they didn't know about anything else. Both sets of parents are questioned about their knowledge of their children's relationship with one another. The two appeared to have been dating for about a year and a half, both having met the other's parents on a handful of occasions. Neither indicated to officers that they had any knowledge of tension or stress in the relationship.

But as investigators work through their interviews, they learn more from Hanna and Connor's friends than they do from their parents. A lot more. And as they piece together a timeline, not only of the day leading up to both of their bodies being found, but of some critical events over the last several months, it's clear that Hanna and Connor were not exactly the perfect couple they appeared.

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All of Hanna's friends tell investigators that she was a shining student and a great friend, always there when her Pi Beta Phi sorority sisters needed her. She was heavily involved in the sorority, serving as Director of Recruitment during rush season. Hanna had been enrolled in UCLA's prestigious screenwriting program and dreamt of working in television. She was described as a mild party girl, definitely known to engage in occasional underage drinking at the age of twenty, but never one to take things too far. Those interviewed claimed they had never once seen her use illicit drugs. And then investigators ask about her romantic relationship with Connor.

According to the same reporting by Dominique Quinn for the Los Angeles Times, it's Aubrey Fullbright who plays the most critical role in informing investigators' initial understanding of Hanna and Connor's relationship. Aubrey admits that she had been worried about Hanna over the last few months, as her best friend had become more withdrawn and cagey when it came to Connor. She'd hear them bickering on the shared house phone on their floor, and notes that Hanna had started complaining about Connor not being the person he used to be when they began dating. Whether their parents simply didn't know any of this—which to be fair is like totally plausible since they weren't witnessing their children's relationship every day—or they hadn't wanted to reveal it to investigators, it's clear now that there was trouble in paradise. But could typical college dating drama really be so bad that it led to both of their deaths?

More details emerge, and I've spent hours reading through all the various transcripts from the interviews of Hanna and Connor's friends, so I'll summarize the most important nuggets for you. First, while Hanna expressed annoyance and a loss of interest in Connor, his friends tell investigators that Connor had begun to suspect that Hanna was cheating on him. According to one friend whose transcript remains anonymous, Connor had confided in him the day before his murder that he was going to confront Hanna about his cheating suspicions. When asked why Connor had these suspicions, his friend revealed more information Connor had provided him. Apparently, Connor found a note in Hanna's bag a few weeks ago that read more like a love letter. The transcript doesn't indicate exactly what this letter said—maybe his friend didn't even know and it's not like it was in possession as evidence—but clearly it was enough to lead Connor to believe that Hanna had someone else in her life.

Now if Connor had confronted Hanna on Thursday, February 6th as he'd allegedly told his friend he would, it would have been after 3:00 PM—Hanna had a full day of classes on Thursdays. Several witnesses helped investigators map her day, confirming she was in each class until her last class, which got out around three in the afternoon. But in order for investigators to really piece that day together, they still need critical information from the lab: namely, the times of death for both Hanna and Connor.

According to reporting by Silas Monty for the Alabama Gazette, even before receiving time of death confirmations from the medical examiner, investigators are hesitant to believe that Hanna could have possibly delivered the force required to cause Connor's injury. He was about a foot taller than her, making it nearly impossible for her to strike such a forceful blow. It's becoming increasingly clear, and equally ominous to police, that a third party is likely involved. And if it has any chance of being Hanna's supposed other beau, they make it their top priority to identify who this person could be.

But here's where things get even weirder. When investigators confront Hanna's best friend and roommate, Aubrey, about the fact that Connor believed Hanna was cheating on him, her reaction is—well, odd. Up until that point, Aubrey had been super forthcoming and cooperative. But at the mention of her friend potentially cheating on Connor, she seems to freeze up. In an interview with LA Nightly, former case investigator Paul Dustan explains the challenge of getting Aubrey to open up on the topic. After four grueling hours of interviewing, they get some information out of her, although it's not as much as they hoped. Aubrey tells police that her friend had been sneaking out late, spending hours at a time with someone who wasn't Connor. Aubrey knew this because Hanna had asked her to lie to Connor about her whereabouts on multiple occasions, saying she was at home studying or at the library or something. So while Aubrey clearly knew her friend was doing something she didn't want Connor to know, Hanna hadn't confided any more detail, causing a recent strain on their friendship. At least, according to Aubrey.

So when investigators get the results that Connor had in fact died approximately ninety minutes before Hanna, their focus zeroes in on identifying who this mystery person was that Hanna had been spending time with, and what exactly had potentially gone wrong the evening of February 6th. They request phone records from the shared hallway phone that Hanna and her sorority sisters used in the Pi Beta Phi house. They also send off samples of Connor's blood for DNA testing. However, they aren't very confident that there will be DNA traces of the assailant since the nature of the killing meant less physical contact than, say, a stabbing or strangulation.

Unfortunately as expected, investigators do not get traces of any additional DNA from the lab test on Connor's blood. But the medical examiner's autopsy report is able to shed more light on Hanna's cause of death. And it's very unusual. Hanna died from asphyxiation from a drug called Amiodarone that can stop the lungs from working if given in a large enough dose. While some are quick to say that she may have committed suicide, investigators aren't convinced for two key reasons. One, because they are sure, based on the nature of the scene when they arrived at the Pi Beta Phi house, that Hanna hadn't died while in the vehicle. She had been placed there by someone after her death. And two, Amiodarone is extremely hard to obtain. Typical cases of Amiodarone abuse almost always involve someone who has direct connections inside a hospital—of which Hanna had none. So while this information definitely gives investigators more than they had before, it still doesn't directly tie them to any specific leads. Although they do begin to suspect that someone with more connections or access than say, another college student, may be involved here.

A week after Hanna and Connor's deaths, the LAPD is still scrambling to make clear leads out of the lab findings. But they do get something that finally gives a few names worth investigating—the phone records from the shared floor phone in the Pi Beta Phi sorority house. Luckily, investigators put in this request on February 7th, so the phone company was able to maintain the records longer than is standard. Compared to personal cell phone data today, it's much less detailed and not nearly as informative as, say, text message threads. Also, this is a shared phone for over twenty college girls, so it's not like every call relates to Hanna. But after a tedious cross-checking process involving the other girls who used the phone and assessing various attributes like the location of the call recipients and the date and times of the calls in comparison to Hanna's class schedule, one person of interest does emerge.

This person is a man by the name Alex Ginshaw. Police notice several calls between the shared phone and Alex, escalating in frequency over the last five weeks. The dates and times also align with Hanna's time outside of class. And with this data in hand, investigators go back to Aubrey Fullbright, who at least to the best of her memory's ability, does confirm that Hanna had been spending a lot of time on the phone after class and in the evenings, but she hadn't exactly been keeping track. The investigators initially choose not to reveal to Aubrey who they've identified as the call recipient. When they ask her again if she has any suspicions of who it may be, Aubrey continues to deny any insight. But when investigators reveal the name, they don't miss the shock on her face. Former LAPD case investigator, Paul Dustan, notes the surprise and fear on Aubrey's face—although it remains unclear to police if this is a result of her having not known and been horrified by the news, or her having known the entire time and being unwilling to confirm it. Regardless, police now know it's Alex Ginshaw and—wait for it—he's not just some other UCLA student.

He's a professor. Yep, you heard me right. He's one of Hanna and Aubrey's professors—a former showrunner turned screenwriting professor at UCLA. So now investigators need to know, why was Hanna calling her professor multiple times a week late at night? And does it have anything to do with her and Connor's deaths?

Now this is where the investigation goes into a bit of a black hole. I've scoured everything I can get my hands on online. None of the official, publicly available source materials provide a direct transcript of investigators' initial interview with Alex Ginshaw. Which, believe you me, I would love to read. But somehow, it's determined that Alex has nothing to do with Hanna or Connor's deaths and investigators basically squash the lead without much explanation. Now I don't know about you, but this has my senses piqued. I mean, he's a professor who clearly has some level of inappropriate personal relationship with a student—the frequency and nature of those phone calls should have at the very least been looked into by UCLA—not to mention the fact that he very well may be the person Hanna was cheating on Connor with! You'd think investigators would perform a more thorough, well-documented investigation of this guy at the very least. I mean, perhaps they did, but then why keep it so private?

But whatever it is that they learn from looking into Alex is apparently enough for them to rule him out. And aside from a few rumors that Professor Ginshaw and Hanna were having an affair, there's really no solid evidence to tie him to the murders. All they have are the logs of the phone calls themselves. In a brief statement made by the chancellor of UCLA at the time, the school basically says something along the lines of, we've looked into it with police, we are fully cooperating, and we have taken private action to address the matter, blah, blah. But that's not good enough for me. And I know you, my sleuths. I'm sure some of you are already online searching away. The whole thing is giving major cover-up vibes.

But after the Alex Ginshaw lead from the call logs is dropped, the case goes cold. Both the Bellevues and the Fosters hold funeral services in honor of their children. The Fosters even hire a private investigator to perform an independent search because they strongly believe that Hanna—while likely not directly—did have a hand in their son's murder. The Bellevues are adamant to deny any such claims in the media, but at this point, it's pretty much just hearsay without any substantial leads or evidence one way or another.

Fast forward to four months after Hanna and Connor are found dead and investigators finally get a tip that has the potential to reignite the stagnant case. It's a call from a man named Hugo Frisco. He tells police that he knows what happened, quote, "to the two UCLA students." End quote. When police ask how Hugo knows this, his response is bone-chilling. Hugo tells investigators that he knows because he was there—on UCLA's campus the night of their murders.

Initially, investigators are thrilled when they get Hugo Frisco's call. I mean, it's been months since they've been able to make any real progress and they want answers regarding Hanna and Connor's deaths. But their excitement quickly turns to doubtful apprehension upon identifying Hugo Frisco. See, he's a career criminal, primarily for non-violent drug offenses, who is facing a twenty-year sentence for intent to distribute a large amount of seized cocaine. Police begin to doubt that Hugo is actually a reliable source. They suspect he's just hoping to strike a deal, perhaps lessen his sentence, if he provides information about an ongoing murder case. And to the surprise of no one, this is exactly what he demands at the start of his interview, before providing a lick of additional information.

Considering he's the only tip they've had in months, investigators work out a loose deal if Hugo can provide information that actually leads toward a meaningful discovery and the identification of a lead suspect. So, on June 16th 1997, Hugo takes investigators through a detailed, step-by-step description of the late afternoon through to evening hours of February 6th 1997. And what he has to share absolutely shocks investigators. The level of detail, the accuracy, and the descriptions all map to what police had been able to piece together, but not prove.

According to reporting by Silas Monty for the Alabama Gazette, Hugo Frisco claims to investigators that he knows who killed both Hanna Bellevue and Connor Foster. When asked how, he goes on to explain that the killer was his boss—and that he had been ordered to help him during the late afternoon to evening hours of February 6th, 1997. To clarify, Hugo claims that he had no direct part in the killings, only that he was the one driving the car. Investigators provide Hugo a map of the area and he pinpoints his exact route: first to Connor's apartment, then to the Pi Beta Phi house. Next, Hugo takes investigators to a small bungalow home just outside of campus. Now, this is where investigators get very curious. I mean, up until this point, they'd never been able to identify any other locations involved aside from Hanna's car, the Pi Beta Phi house, and Connor's apartment. After identifying the bungalow home as a location where both Alex and Hanna entered without him, Hugo then indicates to investigators that he drove back to the Pi Beta Phi house before leaving UCLA's campus.

Now, investigators on Hanna and Connor's case are obviously intrigued, but they are still suspicious of Hugo. Perhaps he had been able to simply piece the route together based on the media stories surrounding the case and was making the entire thing up—either for attention or, more likely, to reduce his impending prison sentence. Regardless, police have no choice but to follow through on the lead, so they look up the small home that Hugo Frisco had pointed out on the map in between visits to the Pi Beta Phi house.

And do you want to know who they discover is listed as the owner of the home? Because I'm telling you, my WCK sleuths, it's peak disturbing. Listed as the owner of the house is none other than Alex Ginshaw: you know, the professor who had been exchanging an excessive amount of phone calls with Hanna Bellevue in the weeks leading up to her and Connor's deaths.

The thing that gets to me the most about this discovery is recalling how quickly police appeared to dismiss Alex Ginshaw as a serious potential suspect—not even listing him as a person of interest—based on his phone record activity with Hanna. Like, that should have been a red flag right there! And I hate to tell you all, but the frustration just gets worse. Even with the same Alex Ginshaw literally listed as the owner of the home, investigators are still hesitant to jump to any conclusions.

During his interview with LA Nightly, case investigator Paul Dustan recounts the part of Hugo Frisco's interview that stood out the most to him: the fact that Hugo had indicated he'd been working for his boss, aka Hanna and Connor's killer. Now, just to be clear here—and you can listen to parts of the interview yourself if you'd like—Hugo never mentions Alex Ginshaw by name nor is he willing to tell investigators his boss' name. Based on Hugo's extensive rap sheet and impending jail sentence, police assume Hugo's boss is a higher-up in the Los Angeles drug trade operation. And because of this, they aren't exactly surprised that he's not willing to give up the name.

During his interview recounting the case, Paul Dustan explains the hours after Hugo's interview, trying to piece all of the new information together. He says, quote, "We understood that Hugo's boss was a fairly prominent drug kingpin of some kind, assuming we believe his story about that night. We understood that Hanna had exchanged calls with Alex Ginshaw from her sorority based on phone records. And we understood that the home Hugo identified on his alleged route belonged to Alex Ginshaw. What we didn't understand is how Alex and the Los Angeles drug trade fit together, nor how those two factors had anything to do with Hanna or Connor. And then it clicked; an assumption at least. Alex Ginshaw is a drug kingpin." End quote.

When I watched that audio clip of Paul Dustan's sit down with LA Nightly, I literally felt my stomach drop. I mean, it both made sense and it didn't. And to be super clear here, Paul Dustan is simply describing his team's logic as they worked to unpack everything Hugo Frisco had told them. So, with this thesis in mind, they offer Hugo a more significant reduction of his pending prison sentence if he'd be willing to participate in a second interview—this time, while wearing a lie detector.

Now for those of you true sleuthing fanatics out there, you know that lie detector tests are hardly perfect science by any means. But it's 1997 and investigators are desperate to validate or debunk their new theories about Alex Ginshaw. Not all of the questions asked of Hugo in this second interview are publicly available, but the two most important ones are.

The first question is pretty damn straightforward: they ask Hugo Frisco if he's ever heard of a man named Alex Ginshaw. Now, I know what you're thinking. Okay, here it is: the moment Hugo's heart rate spikes and investigators are able to confirm that, yes, this career drug criminal knows a UCLA professor of screenwriting who must also somehow be tied to the drug trade. But, Hugo passes. The test does not detect any indications of lying when he denies knowing the name Alex Ginshaw. But Paul Dustan isn't ready to give up.

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Paul pulls a photograph out of a folder and holds it up in front of Hugo. Even before a question is asked, Hugo's heart rate spikes into lying territory. It's a picture of Alex Ginshaw. And when Dustan asks, "Is this man your boss?" Hugo's response of 'no' is easily identified as a lie. Now, it's not known how calibrated the lie detector was, and considering how often it's been debunked, you all know I'm certainly no fan of the method, but I do think it's really saying something here that Hugo passed on the name but failed on the picture. I mean, clearly Alex Ginshaw is the guy, he just has an alias. Maybe he has several aliases! At this point, it would not surprise me.

So at the very least, investigators finally decide to pursue another interview with Alex Ginshaw. I mean, about freakin' time. But of course, once again, this is where things get a bit opaque. From the source materials available online—and believe you me, my WCK sleuths, my team and I hounded the LAPD for months for more information to no avail—we do know that investigators led by Paul Dustan do, in fact, interview Alex Ginshaw again. Largely at the demand of Hanna and Connor's parents. But even in Dustan's sit down with LA Nightly, he doesn't go into much detail. What we do know is that Alex basically refuses to answer any questions without a lawyer present. He knows his rights and seems to know his way around the law—even Dustan alludes to this. But despite the interview and a subsequent warrant to search the home that Ginshaw owns near UCLA's campus that Hugo Frisco allegedly visited—there's just no concrete evidence to tie Alex Ginshaw to the murders.

The home that Alex owns is a rental property, and it had been vacant at the time of Hanna and Connor's murder, as well as for several months afterward. But by the time investigators get their warrant after Hugo's lie detector test, an associate professor is renting the home during the fall semester. So while police are able to comb the place, it's highly unlikely that if anything did happen to Hanna Bellevue in that house on the evening of February 6th, 1997 that there's any trace remaining. They bring in bloodhounds, collect samples, but nothing comes back from the lab that can be used as conclusive evidence of Hanna's presence in the home.

Despite the disappointing lack of evidence and the devastation that both the Bellevues and the Fosters feel nearly seven months after Hanna and Connor's deaths, they do at least have growing public sentiment on their side. According to reporting by Meriah Covert for the Los Angeles Times, quote, "Alex Ginshaw was a guilty man in the public's eye, at least to the degree that he was somehow inappropriately involved in Hanna's life." End quote. This outcry leads to a closed-door deal to remove Alex Ginshaw as a professor in UCLA's screenwriting program. But I mean, the guy is a former showrunner in the heyday of residuals, it's not like he's exactly short on cash now that he's out of a teaching job. And while in the moment, it felt like a win, the reality is it only allowed Alex Ginshaw to basically slip away into the night, allegedly leaving Los Angeles sometime in October of 1997. The grieving UCLA community is forced to carry on, shouldering the tragic mystery of Hanna and Connor's deaths without closure.

But in 1998, something truly disturbing happens. I swear my stomach still drops every time I review this adjacent part of the case. Okay so, remember Hugo Frisco? The career drug criminal who failed the lie detector test when shown an image of Alex Ginshaw? Well, while serving his reduced sentence of fifteen years in prison for intent to distribute, he's beaten to death by another inmate. Now, those of you who listen often or are into crime and jail content, know that this isn't exactly an uncommon occurrence. But when police interview the inmate, whose name remains anonymous, and ask why he decided to kill Hugo Frisco, the inmate says, quote, "He ran his mouth about the UCLA kids, so the boss said his ass had to go." End quote.

Um, I'm sorry. But what are the chances that this same "boss" the inmate mentioned isn't Alex Ginshaw? A little over a year since Hanna and Connor's murders, and he, allegedly, orders the killing of Hugo Frisco. Now, while Hugo was a criminal, he did not deserve to be murdered. If anything, he helped investigators in Hanna and Connor's case more than anyone. We did reach out to Hugo's family for comment. They did not wish to speak about or reference the case but they did pass along that Hugo was a brother and a father and that they feel the loss of him in their lives every day. They do not know any additional information about Hugo's death beyond what's been shared publicly.

The LAPD claims to have reopened Hanna and Connor's case in 2011 as part of a cold-case volunteer initiative that utilizes retired law enforcement personnel. However, the available information about the case's recent progress is slim to none and our calls to the LAPD regarding this case have largely gone unanswered. You all know I'm the first to be critical of how law enforcement handles cases, both past and present, but I also know that there are so many unsolved cases like Hanna and Connor's that the LAPD is trying to sift through—too many. Hanna Bellevue and Connor Foster's families have each started separate foundations to keep their children's legacies alive. The Bellevue Belle is a scholarship fund for aspiring female writers who have faced tragedy young in their lives. Connor Foster's Lacrosse Fund was created to help young children join club lacrosse leagues who otherwise would not be able to afford to play. In this way, the vibrant, passionate lives of these two UCLA students, gone far too soon, lives on in the lives of others. And while we know that nothing can ever be enough to make up for what has been lost, the fight to solve Hanna and Connor's case should not be closed until a killer is brought to justice.

I know it can feel like a long shot, but here on West Coast Killers, we have successfully helped close several investigations and have reignited many cold cases thanks to all of you: the listeners. So if you have any information regarding the deaths of Hanna Bellevue, Connor Foster, or Hugo Frisco, please reach out to the number listed in today's show notes.

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