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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated August 24, 1962 partially reads, "The bodies of a 32-year-old mother and her two small children - the victims of an apparent murder-suicide - were discovered early today in the garage of their Granada Hills home. West Valley police said Mrs. Barbara Cotton Tillotson and her children, Robert Lyn, 2 1/2, and Jeanne Marie, 4 1/2, probably died of carbon monoxide poisoning sometime Sunday." Top shows Mrs. Tillotson's drivers' license photo, while her children, Robert Lyn and Jeanne Marie are pictured below.; See image #00124241 for additional photo in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Dwellings--California--Granada Hills (Los Angeles) Murder--Investigation--California--Los Angeles Murder victims--California--Los Angeles Murder--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Drivers' licenses--California Granada Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Identification photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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