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| - Cassidy "Cassie" Black (b. 1968) is a professional thief who lived in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. She was the student and lover of Max Freeling, with whom she has a child named Jodie Shaw, and an associate of Leo Renfro and Jersey Paltz. After a job at the Cleopatra Casino and Resort fell apart in 1994, resulting in Freeling's death, she was incarcerated at the High Desert State Prison in Clark County, Nevada. She served five years of a seven-year sentence before she was paroled in 1999 and transferred to Los Angeles under the supervision of parole officer Thelma Kibble. Soon after, she began working for Ray Morales at Hollywood Porsche. In 2000, Black contacted Leo, who arranged for her to take part in another heist at the Cleopatra. Black traveled to Las Vegas and met with Paltz, who sold her the necessary eletronic equipment before attempting to rob her. She overpowered him and left him bound in his van in the parking garage of the Flamingo, then proceeded to the Cleopatra to carry out the robbery of Diego Hernandez in suite 2014. In the Spring of 2004, Black encountered private investigator and retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch while staying at the Executive Extended Stay Motel, with a new look, under an alias.
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