Trunk murder
A Fresno housewife was found in her '57 Plymouth trunk in Inglewood on July 9, 1959, after being reported by her husband as missing since the 3rd. Her lover apparently killed her and stashed her in the trunk. As the police closed in on him at a Hollywood apartment on July 15, he shot himself.
The lady in the top photo is Iris Crochet, Inglewood mayor pro-tem at the time, according the the USCDL caption. A May 1985 Times article at the time of her resignation from her position as city clerk has it that she had held the clerk's post since 1977, "part of a public service career that began 30 years ago. She is the only woman ever to hold an Inglewood council seat, which she had from 1955 to 1963, when she lost a race for mayor."
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