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John Leonard Orr (born 1948 or 1949) [1] is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; [2] he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial ...
2. Struggling actor murdered soldier to steal his combat pay and then murdered a friend of the soldier to make it appear the soldier killed her and then disappeared. [ 40][ 41] 31. 2011 Seal Beach shooting. Seal Beach. 2011-10-12. 8. Mass shooting at a hair salon, deadliest mass shooting in Orange County history.
Pilots Milton Elliott and Ormer Locklear were killed on 2 August 1920, during filming. Their plane crashed at the DeMille Airfield, along Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, while filming night scenes. [13] [14] Manslaughter (1922). Stunt man Leo Noomis was required to crash a police motorcycle into the side of a car at 45 miles per hour (72 km/h).
Authorities are investigating whether the Hollywood building where a fire broke out Thursday night that killed one person and injured two was approved for use as studios.
Arthur W. Hawes. 10050 Cielo Drive was the street address of a former luxury home in Benedict Canyon, in the west-central part of the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills, where three members of the Manson Family committed the Tate murders in 1969. The property had a main residence, guest house, pool, and 2-story ...
A man killed in his West Los Angeles home on Monday has been identified by police as social justice advocate and key Hollywood figure Michael Latt. Latt, 33, was fatally shot by an intruder at ...
Numerous incidents of deaths and violence have occurred at Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. [ a] Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, in Downtown Los Angeles, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the ...
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [ 2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and ...