Marion Parker, kidnapped and murdered by William Hickman, Los Angeles, photo circa 1925

Title: Marion Parker, kidnapped and murdered by William Hickman, Los Angeles, photo circa 1925
Date Created: circa 1925
Date: 1925
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 12-year-old Marion was lured from school when she was told that her father Perry M. Parker had been injured. She was kidnapped by William Hickman, who kept her hostage in his apartment before he killed her and mutilated the body because of what he described as an ungovernable impulse to murder. Hickman was tracked down in Washington after spending some of the marked bills he had taken from Perry Parker as ransom money.
Photograph appears with the article, "Ghastly Crime Shocked Nation," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct 1928: 2.
Marion stands on a grassy lawn looking off to her right.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William kidnapping
Text from newspaper caption: Slayer and Victim William Edward Hickman, in three poses, and Marion Parker, whose murder he expiated on the gallows.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Children--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_9486
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dhjz0
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