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Originally Posted by Bristolian
There is also a very noirish chapter to the Western Avenue Golf Course's history.
The lover's lane mentioned in this article about the case of two El Segundo Police officers killed in the line of duty in 1957
apparently was on the golf course property.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/us...-officers.html
http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mason-gerald-fit.htm
http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mason-gerald-fit.htm
The killer evaded the law for 46 years! He was arrested in 2003.
Here's a rather noirish looking photograph of the murder scene.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...rror/page/601/
Why the large monument-like street marker? -this looks more like a border marker.
Here's Palm Avenue & W. Rosecrans today
gsv
I thought there might be a small plaque for the slain officers but I didn't find one.
The deadly encounter with Mason was quite a distance from the 'lover's lane' robbery/rape (upper right) -as
bristolian said, the west edge of the golf course.
google_earth
O = murder scene
[] = lover's lane
The policemen stopped Mason " about an hour and a half later", after the rape, so what was he doing for an hour and a half between the two points?
I bet if one delved a bit deeper, you'd find a bar he stopped at.
-perhaps that's why he ran that red light at Rosecrans & Sepulveda. He was tipsy.
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