CA CA - Los Angeles County, WhtFem 225UFCA 1 of 2 Children killed by dynamite, 1921-1951

[MelmothTheLost]

If an ADMIN will give permission, I will post the unedited photo of the children.

I believe I did come across the photo of the boy a while ago but can't find it now so would appreciate another chance to look at it.

My impression was that his death was probably not due to an explosion as the catastrophic damage was almost entirely confined to his head and that the damage to the rest of his body was nowhere near severe enough. If you think about someone holding a stick of dynamite, any explosion is going to radiate outwards in all directions from that point. He should have been eviscerated. There should have been significant damage to his legs. I don't recall seeing that in the photo. If anything, the injuries looked more like the results of a shotgun blast to the head.

 

[pixiepixel]

I believe I did come across the photo of the boy a while ago but can't find it now so would appreciate another chance to look at it.

My impression was that his death was probably not due to an explosion as the catastrophic damage was almost entirely confined to his head and that the damage to the rest of his body was nowhere near severe enough. If you think about someone holding a stick of dynamite, any explosion is going to radiate outwards in all directions from that point. He should have been eviscerated. There should have been significant damage to his legs. I don't recall seeing that in the photo. If anything, the injuries looked more like the results of a shotgun blast to the head.

That makes me wonder if the photo is really related to this case after all. The only record we have of these two Does comes from the detective's scrapbook, with the two pictures and a caption stating they were unidentified and killed by dynamite. Perhaps the detective really did work such a case, but when putting the scrapbook together years later, sorting through old crime scene photos or even negatives, he may have been going by memory and thought, 'that looks like it could be from the dynamite case I worked...'

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up.

 

[LucyOso]

That makes me wonder if the photo is really related to this case after all. The only record we have of these two Does comes from the detective's scrapbook, with the two pictures and a caption stating they were unidentified and killed by dynamite. Perhaps the detective really did work such a case, but when putting the scrapbook together years later, sorting through old crime scene photos or even negatives, he may have been going by memory and thought, 'that looks like it could be from the dynamite case I worked...'

It is also very possible that they were identified by family but unclaimed. Especially during depression years, the cost of burial was not something some families could afford.

 

[aurycore]

Is it possible that they still have some remains of the two decedents?