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Originally Posted by HossC
This article comes from the March 11, 1947 of the Madera Tribune, which is slightly strange because most sources list Evelyn Winters' death as March 12. Being so close to the murder of Elizabeth Short, her murder is mentioned on many sites. I think all the other articles say she was 42, but ages differences in these reports aren't unusual.
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Evelyn's murder is covered on the 1947project. |
In the 1947project post to which you link, where I go on at the end about Tiernan, it's a reference to the
previous 47p post.
Here's Winters at Ducommun & the Santa Fe Right-of-Way, March 11 of '47. I've covered her up but you can see a hand and foot to give a relative idea as to the positioning of the supine body.
She had been murdered elsewhere and then dragged from a car, approximately ten feet. There was blunt force trauma to the head but the cause of death was stabbing.
Of course one of the most unusual facets of the case was George Wickliffee, who found her, and alerted authorities (a nearby SoCal Gas Co fireman) after he'd kissed her and fondled her breasts (Winters was exposed from the neck down)—they were tipped off by her lipstick on his lips. Wickliffee was thereafter confined to Camarillo.
George Franklin Wickliffee had a long record, and was a professional vagrant and window-peeper.
In the game
LA Noire, there's a copycat case as "Evelyn Summers" and when a railroad worker confesses he'd kissed the corpse, Detective Galloway hauls off and clocks him one; well, you can
see for yourself.
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