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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1974
Page
10
The Independent and Press Telegram publish 10 case summaries weekly detailing rewards, while rewards remain valid for prior cases. Information leading to arrest and conviction in other major crimes or fugitive apprehension is also rewarded, with amounts varying by case seriousness.
The advert explains a guaranteed fund from the Independent Press Telegram offering rewards up to 100000 for information leading to arrests and convictions in various cases. It outlines how informants should contact Secret Witness by phone or mail, promises secrecy, and lists several specific rewards for murder, robbery, rape, and hit and run cases in Long Beach and Compton areas with dates and incident details.
A $3,000 reward is offered for information leading to conviction in the murders of Carl Widman 20 Waverly Cotton 22 and Elizabeth Shephard 16. Widman was found by his car on Wilmington Avenue near Artesia Boulevard lights on motor running. Cotton and Shephard were in the car’s back seat. A $2,000 reward is offered for information.
A local arrest report ties 22 year old Thomas Wayne Kipling to a case in Temple. The article notes a Temple graduate in sociology and mentions a $2,000 reward offered in connection with the case involving Richard V Roehl Jr.
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