Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Marino Bello, step father of Jean Harlow, speaking with Detective Captain Joe Taylor. They are probably at Marino's home and the occasion is probably the death of Jean Harlow's husband, Paul Bern.
Date:: September 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Margaret Willis confessed to the police that she fatally shot Dr. Benjamin Baldwin in self defense. To keep the murder from her son she hid the body of Dr. Baldwin in a trunk, and together she and Bert C. Webster tossed the suitcase over an embankment.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Man Booked As Slayer," Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb 1936: 15.
Date:: February 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: Milo Warner and Ruth Borman awaiting release from jail. They spent a week in jail and she was eventually indicted for kidnapping her biological child. However, on Dec. 16, 1932 a judge threw out the kidnapping indictment and returned custody of the child to Borman. See Los Angeles Times article, "Court Upholds Young Mother," 17 Dec. 1932: A10.
Date:: November 3, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "MAN KILLED BY ROBBERS: Hardware Storekeeper Hit on Head in Furious Death Struggle," Los Angeles Times, 8 Jul. 1935: 3
Date:: July 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Youth Questioned Here in Fresno Murder Case," Los Angeles Times, 08 Dec 1935: 1.
Date:: December 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to "Assailant's Face Unseen," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jul 1935: 3.
Date:: July 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Date:: [between 1920-1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Harold is unsmiling, wearing a sweater and a hat. Several men can be seen blurrily behind him.
Date:: April 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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