Murder suspect Louise Peete with her daughter Betty and husband Richard, La Crescenta, 1920

Item Overview

Title

Murder suspect Louise Peete with her daughter Betty and husband Richard, La Crescenta, 1920

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977

Date Created

[October 6, 1920]

Date

1920-10-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Peete Weeps Where Denton was Murdered; Leads Officers Over Catalina Street Mansion of Mystery; Asks Public Not to Judge Her Yet," Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 1920: II1.
Murder suspect Louise Peete with her daughter Betty and husband Richard sitting outside the La Crescenta Hotel after they arrived in Los Angeles.
Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Peete, Louise, Case
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Louise Peete; Her Husband, Richard Peete, and Daughter, Betty, posed yesterday for George R. Watson, Times staff photographer, at the La Crescenta Hotel, where the family was sequestered under assumed names by the District Attorney's men.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Peete, Richard, 1883-1924
Peete, Louise, 1888-1947
Peete, Elizabeth, b. 1916 or 1917

Location

La Crescenta (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Homicides--California--Los Angeles