Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Pinker, Ray, 1904-1979 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter and Ray Pinker search under sofa cushions for evidence relating to the murder of Celia Holmes. Mrs. Holmes was found shot and bruised in a Mulholland Way ravine.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ray H. Pinker, police department chemist, holds a woman's coat and stands beside another woman's coat on a hanger. The coats are probably related to the Winnie Ruth Judd murder investigation.
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Det. Lloyd Hurst found a gold ring scattered among ashes that included Rose Spinelli's remains. She is believed to have been murdered by her husband, William Spinelli.
Date:: December, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Terrell, Maurice
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "NEW DRAMA IN SLAYING: Victim's Father Faces Suspect: Parent of Mrs. Holmes Cites Suspicion and Gets Reply From Son-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan 1935: 3.
Date:: [January 21, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: For nearly 40 years Ray Pinker worked for the Los Angeles Police Scientific Investigation Division, the first police forensic lab in the country. The Dragnet character "Raymond Pinker" was named after him. He worked on numerous famous cases, including the Black Dahlia case. Robert Seares would later become Pasadena's chief of police.
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Police chemist Ray Pinker, left, is bent over a piece of wood and appears to be scraping a blood sample from it as Det. Lt. Lloyd Hurst, right, aids him.
Date:: December 20, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, ''Clock Death Clew Found," Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb 1936: 2.
Date:: February 24, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, "Jury views Chemical Blast At Cleaning Terror Trial," Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov 1938: A2.
Date:: November 22, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Frank R. Webb inspected the charred bones found in the driveway, possibly belonging to Rose Spinelli. She is believed to have been murdered by her husband, William Spinelli.
Date:: December, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Terrell, Maurice
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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