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Title: Skeleton discovery in canyon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Brown, Rob
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1977
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 snipe dated December 15, 1977 reads, "Skeleton discovery in Canyon. From left. Sgt. Bill Gleason, Sheriff Homocide, Deputy Coroner John Mossberger, Deputy Sheriff Barry Jones. Sheriff Homocide filter through remains of the skeleton of Shorty Shea from the Charles Manson 'family' in a canyon near Spahn Ranch."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 30 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00018697
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b002; HE-001-064 4x5
CARL0000020564
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9046
Subject: Manson, Charles,--1934-2017--Homes and haunts
Shea, Donald Jerome--Death and burial
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Burial--California--Los Angeles
Spahn Movie Ranch (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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