Image / Photograph of 11-year-old murder victim Marilyn Bunker, Los Angeles, 1940

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Title: Photograph of 11-year-old murder victim Marilyn Bunker, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 15, 1940
1940-02-15
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of murder victim Marilyn Bunker wearing a white dress. Marilyn was shot by 17-year-old Donald Rogers, also known as Donald Fehrenschild, while she was playing on a hill with her little brother and other children. Rogers shot at the children from the upstairs window of his home. However, Rogers insisted that he was trying to shoot doves he had seen on the hillside.
Text from original nitrate sleeve:Bunker, Marilyn (murder victim); Bunker, Harlan - father; Bunker, Bradley; Bunker, Donald; Bunker, Harlan Mrs.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Marilyn Bunker.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027zsxm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photographs
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Youth
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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