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An insulin overdose was nearly impossible to peg as a cause of death. In multiple cases, it was William Dale Archerd’s choice of poison, police said.
In March 1983, a year after John Belushi’s death, Cathy Smith was indicted on a count of second-degree murder — a charge potentially carrying 15 years to life — and 13 counts of administering cocaine and heroin to the comedian.
Samuel Woodward, then 21, was driven by ‘pure hate and rage’ over his victim’s sexual orientation and religious beliefs, the judge says.
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.
