Albert Dyer on trial for the murder of three Inglewood girls, Los Angeles, August 1937

Title: Albert Dyer on trial for the murder of three Inglewood girls, Los Angeles, August 1937
Date Created: August 1937
Date: 1937-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Albert Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard who confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls, at his trial. Dyer admitted to luring the girls; Madeline Everett (9), Melba Everett (7), and Jeanette Stephens (8) into the woods on the pretense of helping them catch rabbits and then strangled them in succession. Extra deputy sheriffs were on guard outside the trial to control the crowds of angry and thrill-seeking people they expected would come to witness the trial of this heinous crime. Dyer was sentenced to death after the jury's two day debate. On September 16, 1938 at San Quentin Prison, Dyer was one of the last people to be hung in the state of California
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Albert Dyer
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dyer, Albert - Crowd at Trial

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Legal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gdh0
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