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Title
Dirt with lime
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Dirt taken from shallow supposed graves of the victims at the "murder farm". It is streaked with lime and will be chemically analyzed. Officers reported finding two graves in a chicken coop and several small bones in a lime-filled hole. Authorities think the bodies may have been destroyed by quicklime.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00027535
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2207-Northcott case.
CARL0000030361
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10084
Subject
Crime--California--Mira Loma
Murder--California--Mira Loma
Evidence, Criminal
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,d. 1929

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