Tragic
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Tragic

[ca. November 1951]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

John M. Kelley, 43, former Brighton resident (at right) haltingly tells Los Angeles Police how he strangled his wife, Margaret, 39 (above), stuffed her body in a trunk and disposed of it after two days in a field near their California home. Sons, John, Jr., 10 (center), and Richard, 7, were in the movies at time of the gruesome murder.

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