True Crime Stories Volume 8: 12 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases (True Crime Anthology) by Jack Rosewood

Author:Jack Rosewood [Rosewood, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6:

The Murder of Marion Parker

Long before the hit television show Dragnet introduced Americans to life on the tough streets of Los Angeles, and even before the infamous “Black Dahlia” murder shook the City of Angels and the United States in 1947, another brutal crime took place in Los Angeles that was every bit as brutal and senseless.

On the cool day of December 15, 1927, twelve-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her Los Angeles school by a stranger claiming to be a friend of the Parker family. Once it became known that the man was a kidnapper and not a friend of the family, the LAPD mobilized in what was perhaps its biggest operation up until that time.

Ransom demands were immediately made by the kidnapper, but the seemingly unprofessional way in which the criminal conducted his business complicated the exchange, and when the money was paid, the kidnapper took the money but disposed of Marion’s dead body on a downtown Los Angeles street as if it were a sack of garbage.

The ensuing manhunt, capture of the killer, and trial made newspaper and radio headlines across the country as the combination of the victim’s age and the brutal way in which she was killed alerted Americans to a menace that they had for the most part not experienced.

The tragic and brutal murder of Marion Parker could have been the subject matter for any noir film or pulp fiction book during the decades that followed.

Marion Parker’s murder was a true case of L.A. Confidential.

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