Just The Tip-sters

Matthew Chase was just like a lot of young artists who move to Los Angeles to seek out their creative development and success.  Back in 1988, then 22 year-old Matthew and his friends, brother-and-sister Steve and Teresa Dahl, were living together after all moving from their childhood homes near Medford Oregon.  And – again, like so many other young transplants to Southern California, Matthew, Steve and Teresa moved into one of the grittier parts of Los Angeles, in the heart of the big city, not fully aware of just how “gritty” gritty really meant.  As in:  At the time, Los Angeles was plagued by one of the worst gang wars ever to hit an American city.  And the area where Matthew Chase and his companions lived was one of that gang war’s hot spots.  It was nowhere to be out after dark.  And yet, as often happens, Matthew and the Dahl siblings’ youthful sense of invincibility left them largely unaware of the risks all around them.  So it was unsurprising that on June 8, 1988, at 11:45 pm, Matthew decided to depo