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Description:: Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Date:: [circa December 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Map of possible burial sites related to the Gordon Stewart Northcott murders.
Date:: [circa Dececember 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E Ocean Blvd.), view of the building's fire escapes from street level. The apartments were the home of Gladys Glena Fair, murder victim.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of the Long Beach apartment belonging to Gladys Glena Fair (Cooper Arms Apartments, 455 E Ocean Blvd.), murder victim. A man's arm (probably a detective's arm) is partially viewed behind the open door.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 7, 1933, Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of evidence in the Myrtle Mellus murder case: two bottles of H & S Scotch Whiskey and a third bottle labeled "811 R[...] M. Mellus, murder, 8 for 8."
Date:: [1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of dentist Dr. Leonard Siever in cap and gown, and two other students, on a page from the graduation program for the University of Southern California, College of Dentistry. The student above him is named Jack and the student below him is named Ronald (possibly Ronald B. Slater).
Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of dress draped over a chair in the apartment of murder victim Gladys Glena Fair (at the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E. Ocean Blvd.).
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John H. Happel was arrested for the murder of his wife, Rose Marie Happel (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). The case received attention due to Happel hiding his wife's body in a trunk. He eventually confessed to the murder.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph depicts 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

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