Dead LA gun stash owner described as alien hybrid, govt. spy

It's a mystery that seems almost too implausible for the "X-Files."

Los Angeles police are investigating the death of man who had enough weapons in his home and garage to arm a small militia.

Meanwhile, the man's fiancée and a missing Oxnard woman who used to work for her supposedly believe that the man was a human-alien hybrid covertly employed by the U.S. government, according to the Oxnard woman's mother.

The decomposing remains of Jeffrey Alan Lash were found last week in his SUV, which was parked on a street in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. The body had been there for about two weeks.

Many of the 1,200 rifles, scopes, pistols and shotguns discovered in Lash's home had never been fired, and some were still in plastic wrap and boxes, with price tags attached. Police also found 6.5 tons of ammunition, plus bows and arrows, machetes and knives.

"Our truck couldn't carry it all," Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andrew Smith told the Los Angeles Times.

Lash apparently did not believe in banks. Also found in his home was $230,000 in cash.

He reportedly owned 14 vehicles, including a Toyota SUV designed to drive underwater.

Reports in the Los Angeles Times, KTLA Los Angeles and New York Daily News recount a bizarre tale:

—Lash collapsed in a Santa Monica parking lot July 4, according to his fiancée, Catherine Nebron, She and her former employee, Dawn VadBunker, 39, tried to help him, but he died, according to Nebron's attorney Harlan Braun. Braun said Lash refused to go to the hospital or call 911.

—Laura VadBunker, mother of Dawn, said her daughter and Nebron believed Lash to be a secret government agent who "was part alien and part human." Lash was "sent to Earth to protect us," she said.

—Nebron didn't alert authorities when he died, because she thought the top-secret agencies he worked for would collect the body. She left him in the SUV and then traveled to Oregon with Dawn VadBunker. Braun says Lash told Nebron that he was an undercover operative for several unnamed agencies.

—Laura VadBunker hasn't seen Dawn since she left. She did say Dawn sent a letter confirming that she was there when Lash died, but has not called her parents or children.

—Several neighbors told the LA Times the man identified as Lash was known only as "Bob" and described him as a gun enthusiast who claimed to have worked for either the FBI or the CIA. "He'll say crazy things to people like he does night missions swimming to Catalina," said one, who declined to give her name, saying she was afraid. "He would come ... and tell us he would show us self-defense moves."

Police do not believe foul play to be involved in Lash's death. While an autopsy failed to determine cause of death due to the decomposition of the body, Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said Lash had terminal cancer, according to the Times.

LAPD has no explanation for the arsenal, but officers don't believe the weapons cache was illegal.

They also said Lash did not work for any government agencies.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.