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Word: centinela (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a WPA badge and serving as a volunteer policeman at the scene of the discovery of the bodies was slim, 32-year-old Albert Dyer who had known the three little girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Three Little Girls | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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