Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles / Genre: forensic photographs / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman Makes His Plea Today: Murderer Expected to Offer Insanity Excuse," 3 Jan. 1928: A2.
Date:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph depicts detectives examining the trunk where the body of Rose Marie Happel was found (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). She was murdered by her husband John H. Happel.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two photographs placed side-by-side, each displaying an enlarged right fingerprint. Thirteen-points of comparison are drawn on each image. The prints were believed to belong to William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered 12-year old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Date:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, before Johnston murdered Smith. Collected by Los Angeles police investigators.
Date:: April 16, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Notebook described in the article, "Hickman Makes His Plea Today: Murderer Expected to Offer Insanity Excuse," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1928: A2.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure," 21 Dec. 1927: 3.
Date:: December 20, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. In his initial confession (given while in Oregon) he named an alleged accomplice who drove a Ford coup. That detail is noted in the article, "Detailed Confession Made by "The Fox": Amazing Account of Conversing With Detectives and Following Police Cars at Rendezvous After Kidnapping Given by Hickman," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph depicts detectives searching the room where Rose Marie Happel was found. She was murdered by her husband, John H. Happel (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times).
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure: Hickman's Finger-Prints Found in Apartment. Occupant Identified as Suspected Slayer of Marion Parker; Death Car There Saturday," 21 Dec. 1927:3.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Marion Parker was kidnapped for ransom on December 15, 1927 by William Edward Hickman. Two days later, Marion's remains were found by her father, Perry Parker, on the lawn of 432 S. Manhattan Place- just moments after exchanging $1500 for Marion, whom he presumed to be alive. Hickman was ultimately tried and sentenced to death for the crime. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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