Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home. They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station. In January, 1935 he plead insanity and was sent to a sanitarium. Payne sits at a counter with a pencil and paper in hand, wearing what is likely a prison jumpsuit. Handwritten on negative: Louis R. Payne Text from negative sleeve: Payne, Louis R.
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