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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated August 17, 1954 partially reads, "'I guess I loved her too much,' a North Hollywood studio worker told investigators today as they booked him on suspicion of the fatal beating and knifing of his bride of two months. As Anthony George Cannata, 24, surrendered to a traffic officer at Highland avenue and Santa Monica boulevard, Hollywood, last night the body of his wife, Dolores Inez Cannata, 26, mother of two small children by a previous marriage, was found, battered and slashed, on the floor of their living room at 5258 Denny St." Photograph caption reads, "Murder suspect calm - Without emotion, suspect Anthony George Cannata, 24, sips coffee as he relates details of wife's death in brutal North Hollywood stabbing."
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