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Two detectives search for evidence in the apartment of confessed kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Two detectives search for evidence in the apartment of confessed kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: December 20, 1927
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.
Hickman was subsequently tried and sentenced to death. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Two homicide detectives photographed in a kitchenette, studying items left on a table. They are searching the apartment of William Edward Hickman for evidence regarding the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, age 12.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure," 21 Dec. 1927: 3.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Parker case
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10439
ark:/21198/zz002hbdgt
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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