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Title: John Frank Reavis, confessed killer
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: While a movie sound camera records every word and action John Frank Reavis, confessed killer of Alice "Jerry" Burns, B-girl, in the "red rose" slaying, is shown as he re-enacted the crime in the vacant lot where her body was found. At camera is Police Chemist Ray Pinker. On running board is Capt. Edgar Edwards. In the car are Reavis and Policewoman Mrs. Sidney Kirkpatrick. Reavis said he "necked" with Miss Burns, then stabbed and threw her from the car. Photo dated: February 24, 1940.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050725
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8774.
CARL0000054745
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18618
Subject: Murder
Murderers
Evidence, Criminal
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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