Ah, jeepers. Here I was about to go "productive things" and sopas, you go on and bring up
The Fox. Like I'm gonna stay away from
that.
Say what you will about Elizabeth Short as the hallmark of LA noir -- the Fox, Edward Hickman, and his
killing of Marion Parker (the correct spelling of her name, truth be told) -- is in my estimation, hands down, the weirdest, darkest tale in LA history.
I won't go into the whole rigamarole here -- it's been written about enough
elsewhere -- but one does have to wonder if anyone
moving into the
Bellevue has any
idea...
...the school (Mt Vernon Jr) from where she was abducted still stands, as does her home on S Wilton, but the
site where her body was dumped, its lifeless eyes pulled open by wire, on the east side of Manhattan between 4th and 5th, is now 50s apartment buildings.