Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Payne, photographed in profile, fixes an intent stare outside of the frame. 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. Text from negative sleeve: Payne, Louis R.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7209 ark:/21198/zz002cxk62
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Payne, Louis Rude
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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