Old crime scene photographs

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These pictures look like they are stills from an old film noir movie, but these are actual crime scene photos from the 1930s-1950s. The photographer Merrick Morton discovered the negatives in 2014, restored them, and cataloged them. They can be scene at the Fototeka LAPD archives.

This small sample of the pictures is via Flashbak's Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives.