Esotouric offers West L.A. crime bus tour

Absolutely No O.J. Guaranteed on Esotouric's Historic West Side Crime Bus Tour

WHAT: Esotouric's Wild Wild West Side Crime Bus Tour

WHEN: Saturday November 15, 12pm-4pm

WHERE: Departing from The Museum of Jurassic Technology, 9341 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232

COST: $58/person (15% off for KCRW or KPCC members, or save $39 on any three of five Esotouric Noir November Saturday tours with a $135 pass)

INFO: http://www.esotouric.com, 323-223-2767

This November, the eclectic bus adventure company Esotouric offers a special Noir November discount package. For just $135 a savings of$39 (or $44 if they pick the Blood & Dumplings tour passengers can ride three our of five dark and outrageous November tours of their choice (see full list in the calendar section below), including the outrageous WILD WILD WEST SIDE tour, which offers a shocking overview of bizarre forgotten crimes of the region.

On Saturday, November 15, Esotouric, the eclectic bus adventure company that's redefining bus tourism for a more sophisticated audience, presents its only West Los Angeles crime tour, WILD WILD WEST SIDE.

To create this tour, Esotouric's crack researchers dove head first into West L.A.'s blood-soaked history to uncover a selection of forgotten and utterly fascinating crime stories dating from the 1910s through the 1960s, and spanning Venice, Santa Monica, Marina del Rey and Culver City

.All Esotouric tours defy expectations, so WILD WILD WEST SIDE avoids such obvious and familiar West L.A. crimes as the O.J. Simpson case in favor of fascinating historical crimes.

The tour, hosted by Kim Cooper , Joan Renner and Richard Schave, departs from the Museum of Jurassic Technology and visits such unforgettable crime scenes as the school for feeble minded children burned down by a miserable resident, the bungalow where a 1920s cult hid the mummified body of a gorgeous young priestess and her seven puppies for future reanimation, and a traditional duel conducted by knife-wielding teenage girls for the love of a married bus driver.

Crime Bus passengers will be treated to detailed descriptions of some of the most notorious, strange and fascinating forgotten tales of the region, each told at the scene of the crime. They'll shudder to tales of wicked mothers, when they meet the secret wife who shot her hubby as he celebrated New Years Eve with his controlling mommy (then willed herself into a coma rather than face sentencing!), the evil old ladies who kept unwanted children as prisoners in a filthy beachside shack and may have gotten away with dozens of murders, and the gifted UCLA film student who slaughtered his girlfriend because he believed his dead mother's evil spirit possessed her.

All this, plus a wealthy retiree tried for a murder that may never have happened, the vicious slaughter of a child by a serial killer beneath the Santa Monica pier, and other tales of terror and mystery that will forever change the way you view the West Side of Los Angeles.

Upcoming Esotouric bus tour schedule (Noir November tours starred):
*Sat Nov 8- Noir November: The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's SoCal Nightmare
Thurs Nov 13 ­The Hippodrome & Hazard's Pavilion (Downtown LA Art WalkShuttles, free)
*Sat Nov 15- Noir November: Wild Wild West Side
*Sat Nov 22- Noir November: Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice
*Sat Nov 29- Noir November: Blood & Dumplings
Sat Dec 6- Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's LA
Thurs Dec 11- The Hippodrome & Hazard's Pavilion (Downtown LA Art WalkShuttles, free)
Sat Dec 13- Pasadena Confidential

For more info on Esotouric, visit http://www.esotouric.com