Genre: glass plate negatives / Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Investigative reporters standing outside the house on Templeton St. where Zeke Caress, his wife, Helen Caress, and his chauffeur, Tadashi Wakabayashi, were held captive at 4700 Templeton St. in El Sereno, Los Angeles. Zeke (E. L., Ezekiel Logan) Caress, his wife Helen Caress, and Tadashi Wakabayashi, their chauffeur, were kidnapped from their Hollywood Hills home on December 20, 1930. They were held in a house near El Sereno, and freed after their abductors were captured by on their way cash the ransom checks.
Date:: [circa 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo, cropped, appears with article "Young Case Mystery Woman Found: BLONDE TO GIVE TESTIMONY Miss Nita Carson Declared, Unwittingly, to Have Caused Quarrel Ending in Young Tragedy," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1925: A2.
Date:: August 19, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Nita Carson wearing a dress, standing in the middle of a dirt road. In the background are some parked automobiles and buildings. A similar photograph appears with the article, "Young Case Mystery Woman Found: Blonde To Give Testimony Miss Nita Carson Declared, Unwittingly, to Have Caused Quarrel Ending in Young Tragedy," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1925: A2.
Date:: August 19, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A police detective leans over a pile of soiled fabric. Behind him is an open trunk. These materials were among the luggage that Winnie Ruth Judd used to ship the corpses of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi from Phoenix to Los Angeles by train.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two photographs of Winnie Ruth Judd, who was suspected of murdering Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi. On the left, she is seated on a bench beside her husband, Dr. W. C. Judd. On the right, she stands in front of a bush.
Date:: [1925-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Police officer M. L. Duvall in a house or cabin that might have been a place where Winnie Ruth Duvall was hiding after arriving in Los Angeles and before she turn herself in on October 23. He stands beside a table with dishes and paper bags while holding a spatula.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Burton J. McKinnell, brother of Winnie Ruth Judd at police headquarters the day the he was questioned. At this time, murder suspect Winnie Ruth Judd was in hiding. A similar photograph appears with the article, "Relatives of Hunted Woman as They Awaited Quiz," Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 1931: 9.
Date:: October 20, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Murder suspect Lowell Bell seated at a desk beteeen undersheriff Frank Dewar (left) and deputy sheriff William J. Bright. Photo appears with the article "Las Confesses Teuber Murder: Ex-Sailor's Admissions to Reopen Inquiry San Diego Girl Hanging May Be Cleared Up Story Has Flaws but Clews Will Be Checked," Los Angeles Times, 02 Oct. 1931: A5.
Date:: Ocotber 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Barlow was the superintendent of the records and identification bureau of the LAPD. His work led the field in crime scene forensics, as reported in "Fingerprint Work Told: Los Angeles Bureau Leads Nation in Science of Identification," Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 1934: A3.
Date:: [between 1927-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Journalists and reporters are shown standing by a sign that reads "El Sereno Riding Stables". There is also one large bus and a car shown in the picture. Zeke (E. L., Ezekiel Logan) Caress, his wife Helen Caress, and Tadashi Wakabayashi, their chauffeur, were kidnapped from their Hollywood Hills home on December 20, 1930. They were held in a house near El Sereno, and freed after their abductors were captured by on their way cash the ransom checks.
Date:: [circa 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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