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Police forensic chemist Ray Pinker and Detective Miles Ledbetter examine evidence in the murder of Celia Holmes, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Police forensic chemist Ray Pinker and Detective Miles Ledbetter examine evidence in the murder of Celia Holmes, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [January 21, 1935]
1935-01-21
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 Arcadia funds.
Related to the article, "NEW DRAMA IN SLAYING: Victim's Father Faces Suspect: Parent of Mrs. Holmes Cites Suspicion and Gets Reply From Son-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan 1935: 3.
For nearly 40 years Ray (Raymond H.) Pinker worked for the Los Angeles Police Scientific Investigation Division, the first police forensic lab in the country. The Dragnet character "Raymond Pinker" was named after him. He worked on numerous famous cases, including the Black Dahlia case.
Police forensic chemist Ray Pinker (left) and Detective Miles Ledbetter examine a couch in the investigation into the murder of Celia Holmes, whose bullet-ridden body was found in a Hollywood ravine.
Text from negative sleeve: Pinker, Pay [sic], police
Handwritten on negative: Ray Pinkert [sic], Miles Ledbetter
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11282
ark:/21198/zz002h9958
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Pinker, Ray, 1904-1979
Ledbetter, Miles, 1893-1972
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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