A few more random photos from the L.A. Examiner...
Santa Monica mystery death 28 March 1952...Detective Inspector Lloyd Hilaiel inspects auto in which body of beautiful brunet Mrs Dorothy Higgins Preston, 32, lies.
Mystery death suspects, 31 March 1952....Seated: Detective Captain Clyde Brown, (back to camera), Robert W Logan (left) and Robert L Eastham. Standing L to R: Attorney Frank Indovina and Attorney John K Sloan. Logan and Eastham, after their surrender to police, were booked for 'investigation of murder''..
Santa Monica mystery death, 29 March 1952...Picture of evidence found in victim's room and auto.
Hypodermic syringes, what happened here?...was she a junkie, with the suspects supplying the dope to keep the party going, until an overdose and the body carried out to the car?...or could she have been injected against her will?
Ann Sterling beating story, 24 March 1952. Ann Sterling, actress, victim....she accused Bob Calhoun, oil man, of beating her.
Murder and suicide... Mother kills self and child by leaping from window of Ansonia apartments, where she lived, 24 March 1952.
Body of Mrs Gerald Clouart, mother, in courtyard of apartment house from which she leaped.
Gerald Clouart, father of victim; Father William Stein, of Saint Vincent's Catholic Church, giving last rites to boy;
Suicide note..."I'm just inadequate"....
Narcotics suspects... Central Station... $4,000 to $5,000 worth of heroin in front of them, 20 March 1952. Fern Smith, 23; Joseph Lee, 28; Alfred Mendoza, 32..
Cat burglar killed by police after he shot two, 14 March 1952....William Mathes, 63, dead.
Murder-suicide, 31 December 1951. Detective Lieutenant George A Encinas; Detective Lieutenant Bill Cummings; Mr and Mrs Charles Sullivan (bodies).
De Mesa murder, 6 September 1951....Helen de Mesa -- 51 years.
Fire destroys warehouse of Compton Wholesale Grocery Company, June 6, 1951.