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Full length view of Grace Young's body, laying on an autopsy table in coroner's office in Los Angeles, Calif., 1925

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Title: Full length view of Grace Young's body, laying on an autopsy table in coroner's office in Los Angeles, Calif., 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-3722
Description: Dr. Thomas Young was married to Grace Gordon Young, a millionaire widow with one son. Dr. Young confessed to killing his wife and burying her body in a cistern at their Beverly Glen cabin in an attempt to gain custody of his stepson and his inheritance. In the middle of his trial in August 1925 Young committed suicide while in jail.
Type: Image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b3739_G5738
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster
Uxoricide
Murder victims--California--Los Angeles County
Dead persons
Young, Thomas W., 1877-1925--Trials, litigation, etc
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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