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Tag: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department 1920s

  • Law & Crime

“The Most Cold-Blooded Murders That Have Ever Been Committed on the Pacific Coast”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 19, 2026
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  • Law & Crime

“The Worst Murder Case in the Nation’s History”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 15, 2026
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The Discovery of the “Puente Mystery Murder Victim,” 2 February 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 2, 2026February 3, 2026
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  • Biographies

Pure Escapism: A Los Angeles County Sheriff Wanted Poster for Zephie Saunders, 20 July 1921, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 20, 2025
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  • “The Case Against Northcott Is Ironclad and Complete”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murderers Extradited, October 1928, Part One
  • “We Are Soon to be Afflicted With Another Base Ball Club”: Some Early Baseball History in Los Angeles, 1860-1878, Part Three
  • “I Hope Our Worthy Contemporaries in Los Angeles Will Enter Boldly Into the Base Ball Arena”: Some Early Baseball History in Los Angeles, 1860-1878, Part Two
  • “For the Promotion of the Manly Art of Base Ball Playing”: Some Early Baseball History in Los Angeles, 1860-1878, Part One
  • “The Oil of Consolation Was Poured Upon the Troubled Waters of Many Mourning Souls”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Five

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