The San Miguel Massacre (1848)

On December 5, 1848, the quiet convento of Mission San Miguel Arcángel became the scene of a brutal and shocking crime that left eleven people dead—including children and an unborn child.


In this BackstoryLA Field Trip, writer and storyteller Michael Imlay investigates the murders at Mission San Miguel, the conflicting accounts of how the bodies were discovered, and the extraordinary manhunt that followed—one that briefly united Mexican Californios and American settlers in post–Mexican-American War California.

Assisted Michael Imlay in covering ground at on-site locations, capturing B and A-roll. And then splicing everything together in Davinci Resolve for final editing, such as normalizing audio, color correcting, placing sound effects and music.

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