Ray Pinker and Lloyd Hurst inspect evidence from William Spinelli case, Los Angeles, 1938

Title: Ray Pinker and Lloyd Hurst inspect evidence from William Spinelli case, Los Angeles, 1938
Photographer: Terrell, Maurice
Date Created: December, 1938
Date: 1938-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Det. Lloyd Hurst found a gold ring scattered among ashes that included Rose Spinelli's remains. She is believed to have been murdered by her husband, William Spinelli.
Police chemist Ray Pinker (left) and Det. Lloyd Hurst (right) inspect two rings processed as evidence from the Spinelli murder case.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, "Clues Point to Ax Murder," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1938: 6.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 15242 -- Roy [sic] Pinker (police chemist) Floyd [sic] Hurst stamped:] DEC 29 1938; Maurice Terrell Photographer
Handwritten on negative: Roy [sic] Pinker, Floyd [sic] Hurst

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Pinker, Ray, 1904-1979
Hurst, Lloyd
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Evidence, Criminal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11975
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8v3h
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