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Held in "trunk murder" of wife
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Held in "trunk murder" of wife

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · November 1, 1951

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Burly painter John Kelley, 44, is shown after his arrest in connection with the murder of his wife, Margaret Theresa Kelley, 39, whose body was found stuffed in a trunk in an east Los Angeles vacant lot last weekend. police said Mrs. kelley was strangled to death in an argument over another woman nearly three weeks ago.

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