Rancho Escondido house models at Monroe's Office
- "Developers is going to have some very angry customers."
- ―Herschel Biggs
Rancho Escondido is a housing development under construction featured in L.A. Noire. Rancho Escondido is completely burned down in the Arson case, A Walk in Elysian Fields. Only a small neighborhood of one street that forms a block between Wilshire and Hollywood, Rancho Escondido is being constructed by Elysian Fields Development, in cooperation with the Suburban Redevelopment Fund.
However, in reality, the houses were cheaply built out of shoddy materials, as part of the SRF's plan to defraud the federal government as part of a scheme whereby Rancho Escondido, among other developments, were built for cheap, with the intention to inflate the value of the properties when the Interstate Highway System was built on the lands. However, this would help lead to the undoing of the SRF: due to its poor construction, the Rancho development was destroyed by a fire several weeks before completion. The morning after the fire, a mob of angry veterans who had bought the houses caused a riot, but were taken in by LAPD. Arson detectives Phelps and Biggs helped in stopping the riot, and investigating one of the houses, found that the cement didn't hold the bricks together as well as it should have, and there were no masonry ties. This, along wiht other evidence and incidents, led the two on the SRF's path.
Prominent Case Appearances[]
Arson[]
- A Walk in Elysian Fields (Destroyed)
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