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Title
Author's son admits killing mother with ice pick in N.H
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Goldwater, Jeff
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
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
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
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 February 6, 1962 partially reads, "A 27-year-old North Hollywood man told police he killed his mother with an ice pick Monday night because she was 'just working herself to death.' Helen S. Scheuer, 53, 11734 1/2 LaMaida St., North Hollywood, the former wife of Morton Thompson, author of the best seller, 'Not As a Stranger,' died of 12 ice pick wounds in Valley Doctors Hospital at 8:42 p.m. Her son, Morton Harold Thompson Jr., is held at North Hollywood Police Station on suspicion of murder. Witnesses said Mrs. Scheuer stumbled from the front door of her home shortly before 8 p.m. screaming, 'Help! Buddy just stabbed me and is going to kill himself. Call the police. I'm dying.' When police arrived minutes later, they found Thompson sitting on the lawn at 11726 LaMaida St. Det. Sgt. Dan Bowser said the son admitted stabbing his mother." Photograph caption reads, "'I had been drinking off and on. Thompson tells his story to police.'"; See images #00130746 through #00130749 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00130748
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d036_f3_i6
CARL0005525978
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/64908
Subject
Murder--Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Parricide--California--Los Angeles
Murderers--California--Los Angeles
Alcoholics--California--Los Angeles
Arrest--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Smoking--California--Los Angeles
Police stations--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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