Posts from May 29, 2026

   In October 1958, the LAPD received a tip that suspects in a ring responsible for an[…]

The tall, lanky, 26-year-old man was walking alone along quiet, residential South Kingsley Drive in Los Angeles,[…]

 Officer Leo Wise of the University Division, a nine-year veteran of the LAPD, was walking his patrol[…]

    Police officers often say there's no such thing as a "routine call." From a traffic[…]

    After a 19-year-old robber shot and killed LAPD Sgt. Marvin Haney on a busy Wilshire[…]

  It started as a domestic dispute on the evening of Tuesday, May 2, 1950, in a[…]

Long before he joined the LAPD, Det. Sgt. John Milton had already earned a reputation in the[…]

   On Sunday, Dec. 5, 1948, Dr. Percy A. Foster, 57, received a panicked phone call at[…]

   Shortly before dawn on the morning of Dec. 5, 1947, 25-year-old LAPD Officer John Naccarato Jr.,[…]

  As a 21-year-old sailor during World War II, Frank Panek escaped death when his ship was[…]