Home of Marion Parker, kidnap and murder victim, Los Angeles, 1927 or 1928

Title: Home of Marion Parker, kidnap and murder victim, Los Angeles, 1927 or 1928
Date Created: [1927 or 1928]
Date: 1927/1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of the Parker family home, located at 1631 South Wilton Place.
In December of 1927, 12-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped for ransom and murdered by William Edward Hickman, who had previously worked with her father, Perry M. Parker, at First National Bank. Hickman confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death in February of 1928 after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Parker Case, Parker Home

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.097512
Latitude: -118.151845
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10415
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbcnx
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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