House where Louis R. Payne murdered his mother and brother, Westwood, 1934

Title: House where Louis R. Payne murdered his mother and brother, Westwood, 1934
Date Created: [circa June, 1934]
Date: 1934-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article, “Youth Admits Ax Killing of Mother and Brother,” Los Angeles Times, 04 Jun 1934: 1.
In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home (10587 Holman Avenue). They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Payne, Louis R. Murder Case
Text from newspaper caption: Victims Shown With Surviving Relatives; In the upper row of pictures are, left to right, Mrs. Carrie L. Payne, the murdered mother; Robert Payne, the murdered boy, and at the right Louis Payne, the survivor son, and the surviving husband and father, L. f. Payne. In the second tier of pictures at the left is Dr. James T. Fisher of 10583 Holman Avenue, whose observations of unexplained circumstances at the home in his neighbors, the Paynes, led to the grewsome murder discovery by police yesterday. Next is the ax which police believe the murderer accomplished his fiendish work. Below is the Payne home at 10587 Holman avenue in the Westwood Hills region.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0557583
Latitude: -118.4368041
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Westwood

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7195
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cxjqb
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