Homicide Investigators open the "poorboys," the accordian files they use to store their notes and other papers that pertain to a murder case. Click on the poorboy with the date of the homicide you are researching or on the photograph of the victim or crime scene, then follow the links to investigate.



Vasily Nabokov
Crime: Homicide
CA PC: 187
Date: 9/11/92
Case Status:Unsolved
Designation:Cold Case

 

Phoenix Stetson Murder, 4/23/97 Phoenix Stetson
aka Phoenix Johnson 
Crime: Homicide 
CA PC: 187 
Date: 4/23/97 
Case Status:Unsolved
Designation:Cold Case
Phoenix Stetson Murder, 4/23/97 Crime Scene

Doe Tattoo Murder, 8/27/89 John Doe/Tattooed Arm
Unknown White Male
Crime: Homicide
CA PC: 187
Date: 8/27/89
Case Status: Unsolved
Designation: Cold Case
Doe Tattoo Murder, 8/27/89

Esperanza Margolis
aka Loquita and Sad Girl
Crime: Homicide
CA PC: 187
Date: 8/8/97
Case Status: Unsolved
Designation: Cold Case
Margolis Homicide, 8/8/97

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...a well-respected and extremely successful psychiatrist is shot and killed in his office.  After the murder many secrets are revealed: the doctor not only cheated on his wife, but on every one of his many mistresses.  A few months before his murder, he had reported to police than an ex-patient might be stalking him. His penchant for writing large numbers of prescriptions for controlled substances for his elite clientele had recently gained the interest of federal and local law enforcement. Who killed Dr. Falmont?

...a family vacationing in the Los Angeles National Forest is surprised when their labrador retriever brings a long bone into camp.  The parents at first believe it is an animal bone, but their 14-year-old son tells them it looks like a human bone--he had just finished learning about the human skeleton in his 8th grade science class. Police indentified the bone as a human fibula (lower leg bone next to the femur)...an organized recovery team was able to find a clandestine grave filled with the bones of two adults...forensic anthropology holds the key in cracking this case...

...a classic unsolved murders section with details of the more famous (or rather, notorious) unsolved homicides in Los Angeles.   Elizabeth Short, Jean Ellroy, William Desmond Taylor, and more... 
 


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