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Ginger O'Dare was much more beautiful than I expected
, Noir Noir. Thanks for posting the publicity still.
re: The odd crime story.
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My curiosity was piqued so I dug a bit further and found out that Robert Irwin has a Los Angeles connection, or more precisely, a Pasadena connection.
First of all
, here is poor Veronica Gedeon
, Robert Irwin's New York murder victim.
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And again.
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And here's Robert Irwin after his arrest in 1937.
..(the same year he sent the flowers to Ginger O'Dare)
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The Los Angeles connection?
Let's start with Robert Irwin's real name. . .
drumroll. . .his full birth name is
Fenelon Arroyo Seco Irwin. I kid you not!
(see below)
The son of evangelist parents, Irwin was actually born in Arroyo Seco Park near Pasadena, California on August 5, 1907. He was named for the nearby river (as was the park) and one of his father's favorite theologians, François Fénelon. Hence, he entered life as Fenelon Arroyo Seco Irwin.
This also caught my attention:
...Being a sculptor, Irwin idolized
Larado Taft, one of the leading sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and later moved in with Taft's family. Then,
working in a waxworks studio in Los Angeles, Irwin carved commercial busts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other public figures."
Being of an inquisitive nature,
I am now trying to figure out which "waxwork studio" Irwin worked at in Los Angeles.
Robert George Irwin
Irwin was convicted of the triple slaying and committed to a New York State mental hospital for life. (he died in 1975)
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