Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Raymond E. Johnson, confessed murderer of young dancer Midi Takaoko, sits next to William Bachand. Johnson became jealous after Takaoko began seeing another man. After stabbing her new lover, William J. Bachand, with an ice pick, Johnson came to Takaoko's home and cut her throat with a butcher knife. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Ray Johnson and William Bachand. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Johnson, Raymond E.
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