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Jul 8, 2007 · My mother’s car was discovered parked behind the Desert Inn. Bar employees were detained at El Monte police headquarters. They identified my mother from a snapshot that Mrs. Kryzcki provided.
May 23, 2004 · Ellroy’s mother was killed in El Monte on June 22, 1958. The unsolved case drove the lad inward, and some would say Ellroy -- the brilliant author and chronicler of death -- has never...
- steve.lopez@latimes.com
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Oct 4, 1987 · The moment his cab pulled up to the curb on that distant summer Sunday, James Ellroy knew the worst had happened. In the yard of his El Monte home stood a group of police officers.
His mother, Geneva Hillroy Elliker — an avatar of whom appears in this book as Joan Conville — was raped and murdered when he was ten; it was a trauma that he processed through his obsession ...
May 21, 2015 · We asked him whether poring over 60-year-old photos of mutilated corpses got his creative juices flowing, whether LA is still a “perv zone,” and if he really thinks that the American police ...
May 23, 1995 · She'd been strangled, possibly raped. One of her stockings was tied around her neck. Thirty-seven years later, author James Ellroy is living one of his own noir crime novels.
Aug 30, 1995 · Ellroy’s decision to reopen the investigation of his mother’s slaying came after a newspaper reporter-friend discovered Geneva Ellroy’s murder file while researching a story about unsolved...
