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Unidentified detectives search the room where Rose Marie Happel was murdered, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Unidentified detectives search the room where Rose Marie Happel was murdered, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: December 5, 1934
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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph depicts detectives examining the trunk where the body of Rose Marie Happel was found (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). She was murdered by her husband John H. Happel.
Photograph relates to the published article: "Body of Slain Woman Found in Trunk," Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1934: 3.
Text on negative sleeve: Happel, John H. Murder Case
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5140
ark:/21198/zz002cv3v7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Happel, John H., b. 1879
Happel, Rose Marie, $d. 1887 or 89-1934
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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