A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept: Family Dispute

Posted on June 16, 2009 by lmharnisch

June 16, 1946, Suicide Scene

June 16, 1946: Samuel Alson tries to commit suicide after killing his son, Clayton, and the son's fiancee, Loma Quiroz.
June 16, 1946, Murder-Suicide

Sept. 17, 1950, Samuel Aslong

Killer Samuel Aslon escaped from prison in 1950, but The Times never reported whether he was recaptured.

June 16, 1946, Murder- Suicide

Samuel Aslon died May 16, 1982, in San Bernardino County, according to California death records.

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1 Response to A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept: Family Dispute

  1. David Middlecamp's avatar David Middlecamp says:
    June 16, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Amazing how much access the photographer had to the crime scene. I have read in the early days of newspaper photography that some communities hired the local press photographers to record the crime scene for the investigators. Don’t know if that happened in the LA area.

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