Genre: forensic photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: Two photographs of fingerprints pinned on a wall with a thumbtack. The photo on the right is labeled with "L.P.K." on the bottom left. The fingerprints were used as forensic evidence in the Leo Patrick Kelly murder case. Leo Patrick Kelly was tried for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. Reported in "Fingerprint Brings Order for New Search of Mellus Home as Grand Jury Indicts Kelly: HUNT EXPECTED TO TRIP SLAYER Officers Think Evidence of Identity to be Found Inquisitors Hear Husband Tell of Discovering Body Quest for Mystery Woman Still Proves Vain," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug. 1928: A2.
Date:: August 1928
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

Description:: Photograph relates to article: "Child Found Near Death From Blows: Confession Made By Brother," Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 1935: 1.
Date:: February 11, 1935
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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