A group of laborers claims murder suspect Sam Haskell paid them to remove trash bags ‘containing body parts’ from his Los Angeles home. 

The workers said they were hired by the son of a top Hollywood music talent agent who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of murder. 

The workers say they were paid $500 to move three large trash bags from the inside of Haskell’s garage, which he told them was full of rocks but later claimed they were Halloween props. 

‘When we picked up the bags, we could tell they weren’t rocks,’ one worker told NBC4. 

Sam Haskell IV, 35, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with murder

Haskell Jr. is accused of murdering his wife Mei Haskell, 37, after a dismembered female torso was found, and linked to him. His wife is missing, as are her parents

The laborers, who didn’t want to be identified, claim the bags were soft and heavy, appearing to be filled with meat and weighing around 50 pounds. 

After moving the bags into a truck, they said something didn’t feel right about the job, and they stopped the truck a block from the house to inspect them. 

It was at that moment, they say, that they saw the bags filled with body parts.

‘I was astonished,’ the worker said. ‘Of course, I felt bad. We had been tricked.’ 

They said they raced back to Haskell’s home, left the bags on his driveway and returned the money. 

‘God was watching over us,’ they said, adding they feared for their lives due to the horrifying nature of their find.  

When they told Haskell they didn’t want to be involved in the situation, they said Haskell tried to pass off the body parts as Halloween props. 

The laborers rushed to inform the police, but claim they were turned away from two police stations when they tried to make a report. 

After the California Highway Patrol station in De Soto, California told them to report to the Los Angeles Police Department, they say an LAPD precinct in Topanga told them to leave and call 911 from the parking lot.  

Mei Haskell (left), her mother YanXiang Wang, 64, and her father Gaoshan Li, 72, are all missing, with Haskell arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife Mei 

Police are seen searching the $2.5 million six bedroom house where the young Haskell family lived, with Mei’s parents

The suspect’s father Sam Haskell Sr. is seen with Dolly Parton, who he represented for many years

Haskell lived with his wife’s parents and their three children as well as his in-laws YanXiang Wang, 64, and Gaoshan Li, 72, who are currently missing. 

The three children, aged 6, 8 and 12 – Samuel Bond Haskell V, James Donnelly Haskell, and William Kirkpatrick Haskell II – were found safe at school and are now with family. 

The arrest of Haskell Jr. has rocked their neighborhood in Tarzana, where the family lived in a $2.5 million, six bedroom, house.

Haskell Jr.’s father, Samuel Haskell Sr., was a high-profile agent with William Morris, whose clients included Dolly Parton, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg and King Charles’s brother, Prince Edward. 

His son was arrested Wednesday at a mall in Topanga on Wednesday, after a headless torso believed to belong to Wei was found by a homeless person in a dumpster at around 6am. 

The dumpster was captured in chilling surveillance footage showing a man struggling to life a large black bag into of the garbage, before speeding away. 

In surveillance footage, a white SUV is seen parked near the dumpster in Encino, with its trunk open

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The bag was found stuffed into a duffel bag and tossed into a dumpster (pictured) behind Ventura Boulevard and Rubio Avenue, near a family-style restaurant, a hair salon and two banks

Haskell IV’s TikTok page shows him engaging in bizarre monologues, with a 2022 fascination with Brad Pitt. He also posts videos of himself at a country club in Calabasas, and at a Ralph Lauren store, as well as driving around in his car.

It’s unclear if the pouting, muscle-flexing videos were a parody or serious.

He discussed burnt steak and rambles about In one video, he talks about feeling resentful.

‘My resume says unhappy, resentful, and really good at ordering off the menu,’ he says at one point.

‘Now I’m never going to stop drinking.’

As well as being a top talent agent, the murder suspect’s father was CEO of the Miss America organization from 2015-17, but resigned after he was found to have criticized some of the contestants in private emails, ridiculing one for gaining weight and describing another as promiscuous. 

Haskell Sr. is married to a former Miss Mississippi, Mary Donnelly Haskell, his college sweetheart, and the pair have a daughter, Mary Lane, as well as their son Sam IV.

In his company biography, Haskell Sr. says he is ‘widely known as ‘the nice guy in Hollywood’.

He continues: ‘Haskell is revered for rising to the top of a turbulent and often conscienceless business with his character, integrity and value-system intact.

‘His reputation for honesty, integrity, loyalty and fairness made him a consistent force in a sea of inconsistency and someone with whom actors, writers, directors and other industry professionals were eager to work.’

Haskell III is seen with Miss America contestants in 2017

Mary Donnelly Haskell was a former Miss Mississippi

The pair have have a daughter, Mary Lane, as well as their son Sam IV 

Haskell III (center) is seen at the September 2021 Emmy Awards, winning outstanding television movie for ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’

Haskell Jr.’s social media show him to have a taste for film and digital media, with frequent postings of camera set-ups and artistic portraits.

His wife frequently posed for his Instagram pictures, often in highly stylized, edgy photos. 

A neighbor who knew Mei Haskell told ABC7 that in her few encounters with Samuel, he seemed strange. 

‘The husband – something seemed so off,’ the woman said.

‘Something seemed so weird. I thought maybe he was sick, or something was wrong. All I said was, I kept saying to my family, something is wrong with him.’

On Tuesday evening, construction workers called the police after reporting seeing a dead body in a bag on the driveway.

By the time police arrived, the body had gone.

Detective Efren Gutierrez with LAPD told NBC4 on Wednesday night: ‘When the officers responded, nothing was located.

‘There was no evidence that allowed the officers to make entry into the home.

‘The bags that were described were no longer outside.’