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

Description:: William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. In his initial confession (given while in Oregon) he named an alleged accomplice who drove a Ford coup. That detail is noted in the article, "Detailed Confession Made by "The Fox": Amazing Account of Conversing With Detectives and Following Police Cars at Rendezvous After Kidnapping Given by Hickman," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Photograph appears in article: "Detention by Bandit Gang Investigated, Kidnap Inquiry Opened by Jury," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1934: A16.
Date:: August 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two law enforcement officers standing side by side during the Hickman kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December 1927.
Date:: 1928
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:: Photograph of a woman being searched by a law enforcement officer during the William Edward Hickman kidnap and murder arraignment of trial. The perspective spectator opens her coat in preparation for searching, while the officer (wearing a suit and badge on his left lapel) examines her purse. A second officer stands behind the woman being searched. A man in uniform stands next to him. Several women and one man are viewed seated and standing on the left. Additional persons can be seen standing outside of the class doors awaiting their turn.
Date:: [1927 or 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:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Dr. A. L. Skoog, defense psychiatrist from Kansas City, Missouri; assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh (also of Kansas City), photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This is a portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, both of whom testified at the William E. Hickman kidnapping trial in 1928. Both Western Union employees, Helen Seelye identified one of the two telegrams sent to Marion Parker's father; and Ina Branson identified Hickman as the man who sent the kidnap telegrams.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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