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Description:: Law enforcement official with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case examining a hole dug in the ground as he holds a piece of string
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Police officer with the Mary Skeele kidnapping pointing to the door frame of a bungalow house related to the kidnapping
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Donna Emptage, who unwittingly rented the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), attempted kidnapper of millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Emptage stands in a room with an iron-frame bed and other furnishings. This room was located in the rear of the storefront building previously rented by kidnapper Anderson.
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Edward Hickman was executed in October 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker. In this image, Sergeant Barlow appears to be examining the handprint of the accused while Dr. Blank looks on.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of George Contreras (left), Los Angeles County investigator, holding what appear to be bone fragments, and district attorney Asa Keyes, seated behind a trench in a basement. A shovel with torn fabric draped over it is on the left and a man behind them holds a candle.
Date:: [between 1924-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Envelope inscribed: Mrs. Wiseman's red note book photostatic copies.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to the article “Accused Slayer’s Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure, Science Proves Crime Can’t Pay, Detective Chief Credits Fingerprint Check, Sergt. Barlow’s Research Verifies Clews, Scar on Thumb Brings Hunt to Arrest Hickman.” Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1927: 3
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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