He ratted the others out, and Santo and Perkins kidnapped him from his pad on Bunker Hill, took him to the mountains and killed him.
Shorter was appalled by his gang’s violence. The three of them murdered an old woman called Mabel Monohan on 9 March 1953. Shorter was in a gang with Emmett Perkins, Jack Santo and Barbara Graham. This is a detective modelling a mask worn by one of Baxter Shorter’s crew. Passer-by shot dead in botched jewellery robbery.Ĭhinatown: An assault victim poses for the camera – 1934.ĭetectives calculating the trajectory of a bullet – 1934ĭead body laying on the ground with gun at side – 1926 Working with the Fototeka photo digitation service and the US National Film Archive, the pictures were given news leases of live. The cellulose nitrate-based film and negatives were decomposed and deemed as fire hazard. In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of LAPD crime photos dating from the 1920s to 1970s.
