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    A Malibu security guard died on the job. Three months later, questions remain

    LOS ANGELES — Inge Baumbach did not like taking flowers from his garden. It was in his nature to protect everyone and everything in his life, including the plants in his yard. So his then-fiancee will not forget the one time he gave her a handful of blossoms. "I never asked him, but he gave me cut flowers, and he thought it was horrible," SaraLynn Mandel recalled. "I think it was the sweetest ...
    by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times Jun 15, 2022 5 minutes
    SaraLynn Mandel holds a photograph of Inge Baumbach.

    LOS ANGELES — Inge Baumbach did not like taking flowers from his garden.

    It was in his nature to protect everyone and everything in his life, including the plants in his yard. So his then-fiancee will not forget the one time he gave her a handful of blossoms.

    "I never asked him, but he gave me cut flowers, and he thought it was horrible," SaraLynn Mandel recalled. "I think it was the sweetest thing."

    Mandel and Baumbach never married, but they remained close over the years. Then, in March, his body was found, face down, in a parking lot in Malibu. Mandel doesn't know how he died. Law enforcement officials have provided few details.

    Mandel is fighting for answers. She is the closest thing Baumbach had to family in the United States.

    Baumbach was a native

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