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

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:: Re-photographed image of Perry M. Parker, father of 12-year-old kidnap and murder victim Marion Parker.
Date:: [circa December 17, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Notebook described in the article, "Hickman Makes His Plea Today: Murderer Expected to Offer Insanity Excuse," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1928: A2.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is similar to the photograph that appears with the article, “Figures in Mexico Abduction,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 1935: 1.
Date:: March 21, 1935
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:: December 20, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Howard Van Dorn eventually confessed to kidnapping, leading to the convictions of both he and Luella Pearl Hammer. Both received life sentences. Hammer was unsuccessful in her plea of insanity.
Date:: [between February and April 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Standing from left to right: Los Angeles County Jailer Frank Dewar, Oregon police officer Cecil "Buck" Lieuallen, an unidentified male (probably a law enforcement officer), and Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz, photographed inside Biscailuz's office. The photo was taken during the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered Marion Parker, age 12.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This is a picture of Los Angeles Times editorial staff, Charles Jackson Berger and Carlton Williams, taken before they took off for Pendleton, Oregon where William Hickman was being held for the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker.
Date:: 22 Dec 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Alice Greenwood stands at the bottom of the stairs in her house. Two children, a boy and a girl, are seen in the background waiting at the top of the stairs. A house plant sits to the right of Mrs. Greenwood.
Date:: August 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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