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Authorities initially ruled the 2023 death of 18-year-old Amelia Salehpour an accidental overdose.

Salehpour’s family spent a fortune on private investigators who say they uncovered evidence she was strangled to death.

The case has sparked internal conflict among L.A. County prosecutors and detectives from the LAPD’s homicide and narcotics units.

When Amelia Salehpour walked away from an Orange County drug treatment facility, her parents turned to the police for help. She was in danger — they were sure of it.

The 18-year-old checked herself out of Saddleback Recovery in Costa Mesa on a summer day in 2023, and hopped into a car with her ex-boyfriend and a man he called “Raider.” T

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