Fred Bayha was a distribution manager for the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. In the early morning hours on March 31, 1952, Fred arrived at his office located at 8813 Alcott Ave. West Hollywood and began his usual daily routine. At some point an armed man entered the office and attempted to rob Bayha. It appears that Mr. Bayha followed the crook outside and was shot. Shortly after, 16 year old Dick Anderson, a paperboy employed by Fred, found his boss face down on the sidewalk dead from a bullet wound in the chest. With no witnesses and few clues, the police had little to work with in order to catch the killer.
Detectives near where fred Bayha fell.
Fred Bayha's car outside his office at 8813 Alcott Ave. West Hollywood
Dick Anderson shows his father where he found Fred's body
8813 Alcott Ave. as it appears today.
Two years later, a young couple were walking in the hills around Elysian Park when they came across Millian Perovich, a former inmate at the State Hospital in Camarillo. The couple hid in some bushes to observe the "wild looking man drinking vodka", but ran when Perovich began shooting at them from a .22 caliber pistol. LAPD later found Perovich living in a cave at Griffith Park and arrested him on suspicion of five murders, one being that of Fred Bayha, the newspaper distributer in 1952.
Pics from Examiner collectionLAPL, Newspaper article Stars and Stripes Nov.23,1954