Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. William Spinelli is held under suspicion of murdering his wife of almost 30 years with an axe due to copious amounts of blood found in their home as well as bone fragments found in their driveway. Bechtel bends at the waist with a shovel partially buried in the dirt surrounded by a crooked fence. Photograph appears with the article, "Clues Point to Ax Murder," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1938: 6. Text from negative sleeve: 15237 - Wm Spinelli Det Lt Gene Bechtel Spinelli. Murder TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 12-23-38 [stamped:] Jan 16 1939 Text from newspaper caption: Detective Lieutenant Gene Bechtel digs in yard of William Spinelli home for traces of body of his missing wife Rosa, believed ax murder victim. Handwritten on negative: Det Lt Bechtel 12-20-38
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_11965 ark:/21198/zz002h8trv
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No linguistic content
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Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles Digging--California--Los Angeles Detectives--California--Los Angeles Bechtel, Eugene, 1895-1975
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