Left to right: Virginia McGowan, Nancy Hill, Marilyn McCurry, Peggy Flynn, all students of Immaculate Heart College. They wear four identical dark dresses with V-necks, belted waists, and light-colored collars and sleeve trims. They are all smiling and looking at something off photo.
Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in a La Crescenta house by a gang consisting of three men and two women. Police foiled their ransom plot and rescued Gettle on May 14th, following clues recorded on a dictagraph placed on the telephone conversations of a suspected bank robber.
Bessilyn Johnson, known also as "Bessie" or "Mabel", was the wife of the Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson, a man who was variously the partner, friend and dupe of the famed American Old West figure Death Valley Scotty. Bessie was one of the main characters who provided the impetus for the construction of Scotty's Castle in what is now Death Valley National Park in California.