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Originally Posted by HossC
Due to his place of work, photos of Arthur Eggers showed up during my recent search for pictures of sub-stations. His name previously appeared on NLA when NCD did a roundup of LA murders (excerpt above). Here's what LAPL said about the case:
Fifty-two year old Arthur Eggers was a sworn Deputy Sheriff working as a desk clerk in the Temple City Substation. Eggers seemed to everyone to be a meek little man who possessed an inordinate amount of patience, was intimidated by his own shadow, and dominated by his wife. Over the years his wife Dorothy had taunted her mild-mannered husband with ribald tales of hitch-hiking and picking up truckers. How often had he visualized Dorothy at a truck stop in the arms of the sweaty antithesis of himself? It would have been enough to drive any man completely mad. Neighbors of the Eggers' recalled that Dorothy had an unseemly number of male callers and rumors of Dorothy's infidelities had been reaching Eggers's ears for a very long time before he finally snapped under their weight. In fact it was the sighting of one of Dorothy's male 'friends' that had ultimately pushed Eggers over the edge into murder. He'd arrived home from work about 1 a.m. on December 28, 1945 to see the dark figure of a man exiting the back door of his home. Once inside the house Eggers confronted a completely naked Dorothy with what he'd seen and accused her of having an affair. Rather than being contrite, or even denying everything, Eggers later claimed that Dorothy had laughed at him and said that if she was having an affair, what was he going to do about it? What he did about it was grab a gun, pump a couple of rounds into her and then, in a blind rage, years in the making, cut off her head and hands. He wrapped his dead wife in a blanket and drove out to the Rim of the World Highway where he dumped her body. Somewhere along the way he had discarded her head and hand--they were never found. He filed a missing persons report on Dorothy but his co-workers became suspicious of him and an investigation was launched. A headless, handless body was discovered within hours after it had been dumped and was subsequently identified as Dorothy because of a surgery she'd had to remove bunions on her feet. In an exclusive jail house interview Eggers swore to Aggie Underwood that he was too chicken-hearted to commit murder, "I couldn't even kill a rabbit." he said. He was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin. Here are a few photos to expand (I was going to say flesh out) the story - LAPL has 54 images in total. The text I've included is a mixture of the newspaper captions and the LAPL descriptions.
The first photo is dated circa 1943, which is probably about right as both girls look several years older in the 1946 images (not included here). Note that the address below is different to the one in NCD's post.
"Eggers Family before tragedy struck. Mr and Mrs. Eggers with adopted children, Marie, left, and Lorraine." The family is shown outside their Temple City home at 202 N. Rosemead Blvd.
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Gun and saw used by Arthur Eggers
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"Eggers, shown taking lie detector test. Murder suspect steadfastly denies he killed wife." Ray Pinker, police chemist, administered the test.
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Arthur Eggers waits for jury.
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"Temple City home of Mr. and Mrs. Eggers. Was this the house the scene of brutal slaying?" The address is 202 N. Rosemead Blvd.
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Finally, this image was bizarrely included.
"Mrs. Eggers' pet cat. Was it a witness at slaying?"
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There's a note included with the picture of the Eggers' home which says "The structure, now at 5800 N. Rosemead Blvd., later became a commercial building." It's now the U Smile Dental Group - I wonder if they know?
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Well first off, let's face it, that guy looks as guilty as hell in ALL the photos. That being said, I am going to tell you Canada had a notorious Torso killer also. Evelyn Dick, a beautiful young woman from Hamilton, near Toronto, with an accomplice, killed her husband and cut off his head, legs and arms These were destroyed to prevent identification. THEN THEY DUMPED THE TORSO. Idiots. Oh, and Evelyn, uh, missed something. That was how Mr. Dick's MOTHER identified him. Evelyn was arrested and charged with murder. The school children (and they can be so mean, can't they?) had a rhyme they used while skipping rope during the trial:
"How could you cut his head off Mrs. Dick? Mrs. Dick?
How could you cut his arms off Mrs. Dick? Mrs. Dick?
How could you cut his legs off Mrs. Dick? Mrs. Dick?
How could you miss his dick Mrs. Dick? Mrs. Dick?"
And believe-it-or-not, she managed to escape the hangman's noose on appeal. Probably because it was revealed in court that she was sleeping with all the handsome young men in town, including the Judge's son!
Then in an amazing twist, the police discovered the body of a baby preserved in a bucket of cement in her attic. (How could you miss that the first time, Mr. Cop? Mr. Cop?) and Evelyn was sentenced to life in prison.