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Title: Detectives investigate the home of murder suspect William Spinelli, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 20, 1938
1938-12-20
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph is likely related to the article, "Clues Point to Ax Murder," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1938: 6.
Detectives mill about the Spinelli home, where it is suspected Rosa Spinelli was brutally murdered. The house is located on 305 N. Mountain View Avenue in Los Angeles.
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.
Text from negative sleeve: 15237 Spinelli Axe Murder B
Handwritten on negative: Spinelli Home 12/20/38
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11972
ark:/21198/zz002h8v0z
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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