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Home of Marion Parker, kidnap and murder victim, Los Angeles, 1927 or 1928

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Title: Home of Marion Parker, kidnap and murder victim, Los Angeles, 1927 or 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927 or 1928]
1927/1928
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.
Photograph of the Parker family home, located at 1631 South Wilton Place.
In December of 1927, 12-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped for ransom and murdered by William Edward Hickman, who had previously worked with her father, Perry M. Parker, at First National Bank. Hickman confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death in February of 1928 after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Parker Case, Parker Home
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10415
ark:/21198/zz002hbcnx
Subject: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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