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Title: Murder suspect Arthur Drooger
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: 1959
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
According to newspaper article, Arthur Drooger admitted to police investigators that he stabbed and dismembered Shirley Lee Andrews. Mrs. Andrews was the wife of Jack Andrews, civillian employee at Edwards Air Force Base.
Photograph caption dated July 14, 1959 reads, "Murder suspect. Arthur Drooger, 33, is questioned in knife slaying of pretty Lancaster bride, Mrs. Shirley Lee Andrews. Bandage covers cuts investigators believe were made by murder weapon."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083744
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d002_f33_i4
CARL0002885533
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42781
Subject: Murder--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Murderers--California--Los Angeles
Valley Times Collection photographs

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