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True Crime: LA Seeks 50 Possibly Missing Women

This undated poster released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows at least 50 women who may have been rape or homicide victims between 1975 and 1984, at the hands of convicted murderer William Richard Bradford...

L.A. seeks info on 50 women in killer’s photos

The photos had languished in an evidence archive for 22 years, until a cold case investigator rediscovered it last month and looked through its contents: about 50 images of young women, many of them scantily clad and striking poses like amateur models.
The photographer was on death row for killing two women, both aspiring models, in the 1980s.

The photographs and film were seized when search warrants were served on Bradford’s home at the time of his arrest in 1984, Peavy said.
“Those items went into a case file. That case file, quite frankly nothing was really done with those photographs up until right now,” (Sheriff's Capt. Ray) Peavy said.

My gut instinct,” he (Peavey) said, alluding to a collage of the women’s photos at the sheriff’s homicide office, “is that there are probably a substantial number of victims on that board.”

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~This article doesn't mention if the police have questioned William Bradford about the women in these photos.

I would've thought that there were forensic protocols, procedures, photo-recognition computer programs and databases ...the FBI...that would also help LA County sheriffs identify these women.

It doesn't hurt police PR to ask for the public's help in a investigation where there's so little danger and risk of compromising future prosecutions?

But failing to mention the law officers and officials responsible for the lazy slip-shod initial investigation makes this (unnecessary?) outreach to the public appear self-serving and creepier than it is.

Posted by Stubbornson at July 26, 2006 02:10 PM