Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
12 images. Unwed mother's death, 22 July 1955. Officer Jim Wahlke Allan Van Den Ecker -- 23 years (suspect) Carol Menne -- 19 years (victim) Joseph Menne (victim's father) Mrs. Shirley Berkeley (victim's sister). Caption slip reads: "Assignment: Unwed mother's death. 15/16: Sgt. J. E. Wahlke, Sheriff's homicide, with clothes of victim. Victim Carol Menne, 19, and son, Anthony, 2. Snapshot of Carol Menne, 19. 17: Victim's father and sister, Joseph Menne Mrs. Shirley Berkeley. 18/19: Suspect Allan van Den Ecker, 23. 26: Sgt. Jim Wahlke susp. Allan van Den Ecker, 23 Deputy H.A. Waldings reenacting crime on sidewalk at 7862 Santa Monica Blvd. 'She fell here. I picked her up...'. 20/24/25:P Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Wahlke suspect Allan van Den Ecker, 23, at scene of death, cafe at 7862 Santa Monica Blvd.".
Type
image
Format
12 photographs: negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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