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Jun 9, 2015 · Writing in his distinctive style, Ellroy illuminates the dark side of vintage Los Angeles in LAPD ’53, exploring the city’s criminal element and the oft-forgotten cops who strove to combat crime. More than 80 duotone photos are included the book, assembled in a striking layout.
In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of LAPD crime photos dating from the 1920s to 1970s. The cellulose nitrate-based film and negatives were decomposed and deemed as fire hazard.
Jun 26, 2013 · Detective Lieut. Hugh A. Crowley was shot to death by two bandits in the office of the Village Theater in Westwood on January 12, 1932. The suspects waited for Crowley and fired when he opened...
Jan 11, 2018 · According to court documents, on August 8-9, 1969, four members of the hippie cult known as the “Manson Family” broke into the former home of film director, Roman Polanski, and his wife, Sharon Tate. Tate was 9 months pregnant at the time, and was hosting a get together with friends at the Los Angeles home, located at 10050 Cielo Drive.
Oct 31, 2013 · Mapped: 26 of LA’s most notorious murders. The city’s history is rife with grisly homicides. By Adrian Glick Kudler and Elijah Chiland Updated Oct 31, 2018, 10:45am PDT. Coroner officials ...
Apr 17, 2014 · With an estimated one million photos, the LAPD Archives is a wealth of history that was hidden for decades in a huge repository in downtown L.A, buried among 150 years of police records.
Oct 5, 2023 · Oxygen’s ‘The Real Murders of Los Angeles: Murder on the Marquee’ chronicles how famous film connoisseur and the sole silent movie hall proprietor at that time, Laurence Austin, was brutally murdered inside his theater in mid-January 1997.
