![]() “It’s pathetic, it’s transgressive, it’s vile, it’s human. “This is a pot pourri of crime,” says Ellroy. geraldine defeo: the missing story extortion and lies. weber the exploitation continues the catholic church and the hoax revealing the facts the true story of 112 ocean avenue the aftermath. Some captions are provided by the author James Ellroy from his book LAPD ’53. the family a grisly discovery the murders the injustice that followed crime scene gallery the haunting. Whilst Weegee was recording murder and mayhem on the east coast in New York City, the LAPD’s camera crew were churning out photograph noir. There’s an unusual photo of Maila Nurmi dressed as Vampira, pictures of comedian Lenny Bruce’s overdose in March of 1966 and images of the Manson Family arriving at their arrangement in 1970. It’s not all goofing around with marijuana plants for LA’s finest. Now spruced up, the macabre collection includes photographs of crimes, many of them violent. Working with the Fototeka photo digitation service and the US National Film Archive, the pictures were given news leases of live. Their investigations were also almost bungled. The cellulose nitrate-based film and negatives were decomposed and deemed as fire hazard. The Tate Murders of August 8, 1969, represented the apex of the Manson murder spree that marked the end of the 1960s. In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of LAPD crime photos dating from the 1920s to 1970s. Detail of two bullet holes in car window, 1942 ![]()
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