Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) and airline official Paul A. Wright leaving the office of Coroner Frank Nance. Nance was examining the bodies of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel. Unfortunately he received the bodies after they had been embalmed. Mrs. Wright and Kimmel had been shot, and Mr. Wright had confessed to the crime, having caught his wife and best friend in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wright, Paul A.; Geisler, Jerry, Att.; Hegi, W. Capt.; Nance, Frank, Coroner Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L-R Capt. W. Hegi & Paul A. [Wright]
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Investigation--California--Los Angeles Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Disaster Legal Hegi, Walter E., 1901-1968 Wright, Paul A
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