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Title: Police lay arson-killing plot to ex-mental patient
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph article dated December 29, 1960 partially reads, "A former mental patient tried to burn a Burbank couple alive early today, then panicked and set them free after hearing their screams for help, according to Burbank police. Det. Sgt. George Carsten said that Reese Evans, 58, set fire to the couple's house because he has believed for the past two years that they were 'intentionally goofing up his TV set' with an electronics device they had 'hidden in their home.' Mr. and Mrs. Edwald J. Stolpe escaped injury in the pre-dawn fire. Evans, formerly an inmate at Camarillo State Hospital, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and arson." Pictured is Reese Evans.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00129165
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d034_f16_i26
CARL0005469693
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/60496
Subject: Criminal investigation--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Arson investigation--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Attempted murder--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Ex-mental patients--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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