Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Parker, Marion, 1915-1927 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: "Related to article, Hickman's Case May End Today: State All Set to Shatter Insanity Defensey," Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 1928: A1.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Weeks was likely a spectator at the trial of William Edward Hickman, tried for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December 1927. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Collected evidence from the apartment helped convict William Edward Hickman for the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker, aged 12. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 22, 1928.
Date:: December 20, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Marion Parker poses for a photograph in a field of wild grass.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 12-year-old Marion was lured from school when she was told that her father Perry M. Parker had been injured. She was kidnapped by William Hickman, who kept her hostage in his apartment before he killed her and mutilated the body because of what he described as an ungovernable impulse to murder. Hickman was tracked down in Washington after spending some of the marked bills he had taken from Perry Parker as ransom money.
Date:: circa 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Marjorie (left) and Marion Parker, twins, wearing matching outfits with her sister circa 1924.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Sergeant Howard L. Barlow of the police identification bureau, in vest and tie, photographed indoors. Barlow holds a car steering wheel in his left hand while examining the center of the wheel using a magnifying device.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Hickman had confessed to the kidnap for ransom and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. It is not clear as to whether this photo was taken during Hickman’s post-extradition arraignment in December of 1927, or his trial in 1928. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure," 21 Dec. 1927: 3.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John B. Nash photographed in line with other perspective spectators to see the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Compared to the other men (who wear suits and ties, hats and shoes), Nash is bare foot and wears light-colored garb comprised of a short cloak, loose fitting pants and shirt tied at the waist and fastened with ties. He holds a metal horn in his left hand, a banner attached to a staff in the right hand. Images on the banner include two Stars of David on the upper right and left hand corners; a vessel holding shafts of wheat, and a crown with “Rev.” and an indecipherable chapter and verse are illustrated on the bottom corners. Depicted at center is a cross atop a Star of David with the word “Zion” written on it. Surrounding this image are the words, “Hope, Charity, Truth, Faith.” Remaining text reads, from top: “The Everlasting Gospel. Peace to Isreal. [Left side:] Isek 7:15… The Gospel [indecipherable] Lake of Fire - Rev 20:10. [Right side:] Bannar. Grace.
Date:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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