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

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

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:: 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

Description:: This notebook was confiscated after Hickman's capture in Echo, Oregon, and was examined to ascertain whether Hickman had a female accomplice in the kidnapping. Fingerprints appear above the text.
Date:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 2-page handwritten letter, photographed pinned to board, from Fay Sudow, addressed to Fred Allen, 711 Central Bldg., Main and 6th St., Los Angeles, Cal., with 2 envelopes, 1 postmarked Chicago, Ill., Oct 16, 5 PM, 1920, with the logo of Morrison Hotel and Terrace Garden, Chicago, and 1 postmarked Plymouth, Ill., Oct 27, 2 PM, 1920. Fay Sudow's attorney was named Alfred W. Allen, with an office at 485 Central Bldg.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Textured black leather bag with handle and clasp at top, flat bottom, on edge of round table with bookcase in background. Bag is wrapped with 2 thin ropes and affixed with address label from Fred W. Wolf to Alfred Allen, and shipping label marked Collect.
Date:: December, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the photo spread, "Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1933
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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