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Title supplied by cataloger. Linda Edna Martin was an USC student who was found stabbed to death at her fiance's, G. Robert Kinzie, apartment. Police surmised that a prowler followed her to her fiance's apartment where she was attacked while bathing. Photograph caption dated August 30, 1959 reads, "Slain Girl's Grave. This is final resting place at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery of pretty Linda Martin, 21, USC coed stabbed to death Sunday night. In background is Chapel-on-the-Hill, church where funeral services were conducted at 10 a.m. today. Fewer than 20 persons, including plainclothes detectives, attended the private burial."
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries (Hollywood, Calif.) Cemeteries--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Flower arrangements Lawns--California--Los Angeles Graves--California--Los Angeles Church buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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