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John R. Crooker
International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · July 7, 1955
Poetry-writing, 33-year-old law student John R. Crooker (shown) suddenly changed his story after his arraignment today in West Los Angeles municipal court. Crooker's lawyer pointed out that he was subjected to 14 hours of continuous questioning by detectives working in relays until he confessed that he stabbed and strangles the pretty divorcee in the bedroom of her $50,000 Bel-Air district mansion.
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