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Detectives grilled Polly Klaas’ 12-year-old friends, who had witnessed the abduction. Was this some kind of prank? Did Polly have a boyfriend? Had she run off with him? Were they covering for her?
A retired Los Angeles Times copy editor began researching the Black Dahlia murder case in the late 1990s. Arguably the world’s top authority on the mysteries surrounding Elizabeth Short’s death, he believes he knows who killed her.
A Santa Monica police officer was standing outside the police station Saturday night when a man approached him and stabbed him, authorities say.
As many as a thousand demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian rally in L.A. called for a cease-fire two days before the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel.
A man was fatally shot outside the St. John Bosco High School stadium, where he came to watch his son play in a youth football game, authorities said.
He is mostly forgotten today. But Caryl Chessman’s death penalty conviction dominated the debate about capital punishment for years.
Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.
The club’s yearly dues were $31,500, and with travel and hotel expenses, the Arizona couple was spending close to $125,000 annually. Disney revoked their membership after an allegation that Scott Anderson was drunk in public.
Patricia Hearst’s transformation into a fervent member of the SLA was part of a strange saga at the nexus of leftist militancy and American aristocracy, saturation media coverage and youth revolt.
George Franklin’s freedom was at stake. So was support for the idea that ‘repressed memories’ like his daughter’s recollection of Susan Nason’s 1969 slaying are accurate.
