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Title
Two girls found slain
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Goldwater, Jeff
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
A house-to-house search was launched for clues in the slaying of two 6-year-old San Fernando girls whose near-nude bodies were found Monday night in an empty refrigerator near their home. Both had been criminally assaulted. The girls were Stephanie Hanna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hanna, 533 Harps St., and Paula Cram, a foster child living with the family. Police said the girls apparently had been dead for about five hours when found. At 11 p.m., Police Chief Winford E. Slaughter met Mrs. Leonora Greenfield (pictured), of 551 Harps St. near her house. Slaughter said the woman told him she had remembered an empty refrigerator in her garage. She remembered she had left the doors propped open that afternoon and when she looked in later that night, the refrigerator door had been closed and she was scared to look in it. Slaughter entered the garage, opened the refrigerator, and found the bodies of the deceased girls inside. Photograph dated April 24, 1962.; See images #00131744 through #00131746 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 14 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00131745
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d037_f2_i22
CARL0005543855
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/62134
Subject
Women--California--San Fernando
Murder--Investigation--California--San Fernando
Murder--California--San Fernando
Smoking--California--San Fernando
San Fernando (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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