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4569 Mrs. Irene Norey, 40, and her 9-year-old son, Craig, were found brutally murdered in their second floor apartment at 4569 Edgewood Place on July 22, 1958. She was lying face down on a couch in the living room, wearing only a blouse. Her hands were tied behind her by a nylon stocking and another was twisted around her neck and a gag had been stuffed in her mouth. A pair of walking shorts lay on the floor near the couch and a blue nightgown was tossed carelessly over her body. A phonograph near her body had a record on the turntable titled "Endless Sleep." Her son Craig lay face down on the floor nearby. He had been hit on the back of the head and strangled with a television cord. They had been dead for two days. Several hours later, police arrested Charles Earl Brubaker, 39, a gas station attendant and ex-convict. A day later, he confessed that he killed both victims.
Whatever Happened to Brubaker? He was sentenced to die in the gas chamber. His execution was stopped six times, once just 10 minutes before he was to die. In 1964, after his last reprieve, he was granted a new penalty trial and was sentenced to life in prison.

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Husband - Wife Arrested On Narcotics Charge (1948)
731 Jack Cherry, 39, and his wife, Marjorie, 28, were arrested in their apartment at 731 Edinburgh Ave.by narcotics officers in October, 1948. In the apartment and adjoining garage, they found more than $4000 worth of drugs, 8 ounces of opium, 19 marijuana cigarettes, a homemade pipe and a brass burning lamp. Mrs. Cherry told police, "I'm a square, this is a heck of a bring-down for me." Thy were both booked on suspicion of violating the State Narcotics Act.

853 When Phillip Chain, 38, came here to his ex-wife's home in December, 20, 1953 to take thier daughter, Darlene, 4, to dinner, he was greeted by a "Not at Home" sign on the front door. "Her refusal to allow him to visit with his daughter," he said, "is a violation of the court order." "This is the fifth time Esther has refused to let me see Darlene. The last time I saw her she said unless I paid $13 a week support, I couldn't see Darlene." On the following day, Chain was seen picketing in front of his former wife's home with a sign that read; "Waiting to see my baby. Why can't a father see his child? I plead for justice." For good measure, he taped signs on the window screens of Esther's home.

112 After Mrs. Hazel Garland, 24, shot a Hollywood patrolman in her boarding house at 112 Edenburgh Ave. in January, 1927, when he threatened her, she said "A roomer is a only a roomer, but an unwelcome suitor in the home is a downright pest." She told police that officer W. R. McIntire of the Hollywood police department had been a roomer in her home for sometime and often tried to make love to her. On the night of the shooting, he came in while she was eating dinner and began destroying the furniture. When she tried to stop him, he threatened to kill her, so she grabbed a revolver from a drawer nearby, and fired as he came toward her. "The shot only grazed his cheek," she said, "but it stopped him." After hearing her story and that of a neighbor who witnessed the shooting, the wounded cop was suspended from duty following an investigation of the affair.

1700 Actresses Marion Davies and Alma Rubens were bruised and shaken up when Davies' limousine collided with another car at the intersection of El Cerrito and Hollywood Blvd in September, 1924. The accident happened when Davies' car attempted to turn off El Cerrito into Hollywood Blvd. at the same time that a Ford was crossing the intersection. The fender of Davies's car was smashed. There were no serious injuries and no report was made to police. Davies gave her address as 910 Bedford in Beverly Hills and Rubens lived at 1834 N. El Cerrito.

Where Are They Now? Davies died in 1961 at age 64, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in the Section 8 (Garden of Legends) on the east side of the lake. Rubens died from a drug addiction in 1931 at age 32, and is buried in Ararat Cemetery in Fresno, California, in the Mausoleum, Section F, Tier 2, Row.

1752 On May 3, 1942, John Negus surprised his neighbors by launching an 18-foot, seven-foot beam sloop through his parlor window of his house at 1752 N. El Cerrito Drive. He had built the sloop in the parlor. With the help of several volunteers, they lifted, pulled, and eased the boat through the window from which the frame had been removed. Once outside, it was cradled with timbers on the front lawn. Mrs. Negus helped celebrate by serving punch and homemade cookies to the many people that had gathered to watch.

1780       17-year-old singer/actress Beverly Aadland was attacked in her apartment at 1780 N. El Cerrito Place on April 9, 1960, by her boy friend, William Stanciu, 20, who while playing Russian roulette with a revolver killed himself. Miss Aadland, former 15-year-old lover of the late actor Errol Flynn, shared the apartment with her mother, Mrs. Florence Aadland. Beverly, who was appearing at a Sunset Blvd. night club, gave police the following version of the shooting.
      At 5 a.m. Stanciu knocked on her door and and told her he needed money to leave town. She told him she could let him have $10. When she slid a check through a crack in the door, he forced his way inside and began professed his love for her and said he was going to kill her "for ruining my life." He began a game of Russian roulette by placing three cartridges in the six-shot weapon. He spun the cylinder and aimed the gun at her. Stanciu snapped the trigger and she fainted. The hammer had struck an empty chamber.
      When she regained consciousness. Stanciu had removed all his clothing except a pair of bathing trunks. He ordered her to disrobe and then criminally attacked her at gunpoint. Then he made her sit beside him on the couch-bed in her living room and spun the cylinder again. "Close your eyes now." he ordered, and she said she started to pray. But this time he put the gun to his right temple and pulled the trigger. The shot pierced his skull. She was sitting so close when the gun went off that blood splattered on her face and hair. He died the next day on his 21st birthday. His brother told police that Stansciu, who lived at 1138 N Poinsettia Pl., aspired to follow in the footsteps of Errol Flynn – to be an actor and to possess Beverly Aadland.
Where Are They Now? Flynn, 49, suffered a heart attack on October 14, 1959 and died in Beverly's arms. He is buried in Forest Lawn Glendale, in: the Garden of Everlasting Peace. Beverly was living quietly in the San Fernando Valley in 2000.

1800 Unemployed actor Leo Galitzine, 53, a self-described Prince of Lithuania, was arrested in his apartment at 1800 N. El Cerrito Place in January, 1957, on the suspicion of manslaughter after his car was the cause of traffic accident that killed two people, even though his car was not involved in the accident. Witnesses to the accident said that Galitzine's car ran through a red light and drove through the intersection. Two other cars going in opposite directions, swerved to avoid Galitzine and collided head-on, killing both drivers

1854 Eighteen detectives raided a house at 1854 N. El Cerrito Place in June, 1924, and arrested Lee Moore for running a gambling den. The house, which was located in the middle of extensive gardens, was owned by actress Dorothy Wallace who had rented it to a Charles Gordon of San Francisco for $400 a month. It was Miss Wallace who tipped off the police about the gambling. Found inside the sumptuously furnished house were dice tables and other paraphernalia. Japanese houseboys circulated among the guests with sandwiches and drinks. Moore was found hiding in a closet with 335 silver dollars tied up in a towel.
— In January, 1925, when Miss Wallace discharged her gardener, Gust Lentz, he refused the $111.25 check that she offered him. Instead, he filed a claim with the Labor Commission for $162.65, which he said he earned while Miss Wallace was in Europe in the summer of 1924. The court ruled that the $111.25 check was all that was due and gave the gardener thirty days to accept it.

1913 In July, 1954, Ralph Hinckley, 60, of 1913 N. El Cerrit Place, president of a water heater company, was found under a clump of bushes in Van Nuys with his throat slashed with a razor blade. He was taken to a private hospital where he was in serious condition. His attorney said that Hinckley had been worried bout financial difficulties.

2107 On New Years Eve in 1937, Dr. N.P. Weber, 54, of 2107 N. El Cerrito Place, was found unconscious with his throat slashed lying on a hillside near 2159 Outpost Drive. He died the next day. Weber, a retired dentist, had left his home on December 30, and was later reported missing by his wife. Police said he had slashed his throat with a razor.

8708 Hans Peterson, 54, a Pacific Electric motorman, was found dead in his home at 8708 El Tovar Place in June, 1937. A suicide, his body lay in the gas-filled home several days before it was discovered

8722 Two men were arrested for running a bookmaking ring at 8722 El Tovar Place in March, 1952. Found inside the house were two telephones and betting markers and files that indicated that the place was doing $10,000 to $20,000 business a day.

9032 Divorcee Marianne Marro, 20, writer Richard Hartunian, 24, and actor Christopher Gerson Randolph, 24, were arrested in a car outside Randolph's home at 9032 Elevado Ave. during a dope raid in February, 1957. Barbiturate pills were found in Marro's purse and another botttle of them were found in the car. Inside the apartment police found 37 marijuana cigarettes and Mark Korda, Randall's room mate. Korda, a cab driver and refugee from Poland, was also arrested.

6633 Celeste Hoerber, 86, was beaten to death in her first floor bedroom at 6633 Emmet Terrace by a burglar in January, 1981. Her sister, Mrs. Harriette Ziess, 83, also beaten, was found barely alive in her bed. Neighbors said they had never seen the two sisters outside of the house in 20 years. The old Spanish-style stucco house had been Mrs. Hoerber's honeymoon cottage. She and her late husband, a physician, had moved here in 1921.

6636 Ronnie Quillan, a sometime actress and dancer was jailed on her mother-in-law's citizen's arrest and sued for divorce within the space of a few hours on February 25, 1957. She was booked at City Jail on a charge of disturbing the peace for smashing the picture window of Mrs. D. W. 0'Reilly's home with a "two-by-four." O'Reilly, told police that the incident was about the return of a TV set that Quillan said was her's. She said Quillan arrived at the house in a taxi at 5:45 a.m. and banged on the front door for half an hour. Finally she gave up but came back at 10 a.m., again in a cab. This time, said Mrs. O'Reiliy, Mrs. Quillan was armed with a six-foot length of two by four. She smashed the gate, then a small window, then the big one, and was trying to climb in
through the hole when police arrived.
Mrs. O'Reilly's son Daniel O'Reilly, 20, who said he married Mrs Quillan last July in Tijuana, was petitioning Superior Court for an annulment or a divorce at about the same time of the incident. He stated in his divorce petition that his wife concealed that she was addicted to drugs and barbiturates and was not a chaste woman, plus, she had threatened to cut and stab him with a knife, and he feared for his life. He said further that after they separated last January 20, he returned here to his mother's home where she continued to annoy him.

Where is She Now? Quillan, 48, died in 1962 in her small Hollywood apartment , a hopeless alcoholic and drug addict.

6655 Posing as police officers, two men robbed chef Tino Southon at his home at 6655 Emmet Terrace in February, 1947. He was accosted by the men as he opened his garage and knocked him down when he asked for identification. They took his $1000 ring and $62 watch and fled.

8850 In 1945, singer/actress Judy Garland and her husband, director Vincente Minnelli, bought a home at 8850 Evanview Drive and two vacant lots on either side of it. They hired architect John Woolf to design an addition to the house and also a nursery for Lisa who was born here in March 1946. While making the film “The Pirate,” Judy returned home unexpectedly and walked into the bedroom to change clothes. On the bed, locked in a loving embrace, were her husband Vincente and a man who worked for them. Running into the bathroom, she cut her wrists with a sharp object. Minnelli jumped from the bed and rushed into the bedroom and grabbed it away. She tried suicide again on June 20, 1950, when she locked herself in the same bathroom and made a minor cut on her throat after she was fired by MGM. Garland and Minnelli separated in December 1950.
— Singer Sammy Davis Jr. married singer Loray White here in his home in 1958. They were divorced in 1959. He married actress May Britt while here in 1960. Hyon Chough, an artist and furniture designer had the house for sale for $5 million in 2005.
Where Are They Now? Garland died on June 22, 1969, of an accidental overdose of barbiturates.at age 47. She was found on the floor of a bathroon in her rented flat in London. She is buried in Hartsdale, New York, in the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum , Unit 9, alcove HH, crypt 31. Minnelli died of Alzheimer's disease in Beverly Hills on July 25, 1986 at age 82. He is buried in Forest Lawn Glendale in the Garden of Enduring Faith, space A. Davis died died in Beverly Hills of throat cancer on May 16, 1990 at age 65. He is buried in Forest Lawn Glendale in the Garden of Honor.

8974 In December 1964, Dr. Samuel Weinstein of 8974 Evanview Drive, got a call here at his home from a woman named Betty Pascal, who told him she was sick with bronchitis, and asked him to come to her home at 4760 Overland Ave. in Culver City and treat her. When he arrived at her house, she met him in a negligee and threw her arms around him. At that instant, a flashbulb went off and two men appeared – one with a camera, the other with a gun. After the flashbulb went off, one of the men told Weinberg he was Pascal's husband and demanded $25,000. When he refused and started to leave, he was hit on the head with the pistol. He leaped through a second-story window and escaped. Police later arrested red-headed Mrs. Betty Jane Pascal, 41, Clifford Beavers, 36, and Ervin Ross, 46, and charged them with conspiracy, extortion and assault. Police later said that Mrs. Pascal, a former model, had served a manslaughter sentence for killing her husband Michael Pascal, in Mar Vista in 1955. She had shot him in the head and left him unconscious while she drove their 6-year-old son to a party.