Mrs. Florence Honeycutt 11/13/1945

 Mrs. Florence Irene Honeycutt age 38, Killed by her husband John Thomas Honeycutt age 32.

Murder of Minnie Sieber 2/7/1926

Minnie Rose Heidy was born on March 15, 1884 in Kansas to John William Heidy and Emily Lucinda Stebbins Heidy.

Charles Sieber (real name, Charles Siebert) was born Jan 1889 in Kansas to Benedickt and Friedericka Siebert.

Charles and Minnie Rose Sieber were married in May 8, 1912, within the ensuing year, a daughter, Virginia Marie was born. Not long after the birth of their child, the couple separated in June of 1913, but resumed marital relations in 1914. However, in 1916, they parted for the last time and went their separate ways. Charles Sieber enlisted in the US Army during the First World War, and soon after its close went to live in Los Angeles, where he entered the service of the city as a bricklayer. 

Mrs Vivian Riley 1945

Miss [sic] Vivian Riley, age 28, killed by Vernon Spangler, age 28, in his room at 705 West 6th Street. LA, Cal. 3/17/45. He took her body to the rear of a laundry at 703 West 6th Street. He was charged with 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 5 years to life at San Quentin Prison.

The Bluebeard of LA 1920

 LA First Blue-beard Murder Case. James P. Watson, age 41 yrs, married twenty five wives and killed sixteen of them. He would take their money, jewelry and bonds. Watson would dig a grave, put acid on the body before he buried them. He was sentenced to life in San Quentin on 5/18/1920. he died in San Quentin hospital 10/16/1939. 

Steve the Killer - a Jack the Ripper 1944

Otto Steven Wilson, age 31, shipyard cook, met Mrs Virginia Lee Griffin who lived at 1934 East 17th St LA Cali in a Skid Row Beer Parlor at 326 South Hill St. They went to a hotel at 4th and Main St with the idea of prostitution. He hit her stabbed her and cut her up. Photo of Mrs Griffin, 25, on the left.

Using the same idea he took Mrs. Lillian Johnson, age 38, of Compton Calif, to a hotel at 340 South Hill St. He choked her to death & carved her up with a razor blade. Wilson was arrested by Patrolman Harold E. Donlan in a Beer Parlor on South Hill St, only a few doors from the hotel where Wilsons second victim was found then arrested he was trying to date up another woman. La Calif 11/15/44. Sentenced to death in the San Quentin gas chamber 7/5/45. Died 9/20/46.

Death of Mrs. Irene McCarthy 12/1940

The Murders of William L. Johansen (alias Harry W. Gordon, alias Frank Gordon, alias Walter Johansen and William Johnston).