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From the Baldwin Hills looking down from about the same perspective as the cover of Colder Case

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date June 19, 2015

The Village Green in 1943.

Tags Baldwin Hills, Jeanette Stephens, Madeline Everett, Melba Everett

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Paperback released!

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date March 30, 2015

@ AMAZON.com The crime scenes. The P&E track from Culver City to Amoco (center) is the southern boundary of the Glen Airy District. Two sisters, May and Nina Martin, 12 and 8, disappeared from the Glen Airy District at the base of the Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles on August 23, 1924. Most houses were no […]

Tags Jeanette Stephens, Louise Teuber, Madeline Everett, May Martin, Melba Everett, Nina Martin, S.C. Stone, Virginia Brooks

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Sisters and a friend

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date December 15, 2014

Tags Albert Dyer, crime scene, death penalty, false confessions, forensic science, Jeanette Stephens, Louise Teuber, Madeline Everett, May Martin, Melba Everett, serial killers, true crime, Virginia Brooks, wrongful convictions

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Los Angeles Times Map of the 1937 Crime Scene

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date November 14, 2014

The first I heard of this case in was 2004. There was the claim the “pied piper” killer enticed the children to walk a block behind him up into the hills. This map by the L.A. Times has the crime scene location 1 1/2 miles farther north than the testimony indicated, at about where Coliseum […]

Tags crime scene, death penalty, false confessions, forensic science, Jeanette Stephens, Madeline Everett, Melba Everett, murder, serial killers, true crime, wrongful convictions

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Centinela Park in Inglewood, CA Google Map

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date November 12, 2014

The children lived where the red line is drawn. There were houses on the north side of the street until the 50s and 60s. Note the plunge upper right and the tennis courts at bottom. Veteran’s Memorial Building (built in 1934) is far left at the corner of Warren Lane and Centinela Ave. Florence used […]