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Monday, April 21, 2014

Incredible scenes of crime photographs dating back 100 years are found in secret LAPD archive

LA Confidential: Incredible scenes of crime photographs dating back 100 years are found in secret LAPD archive

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A selection of 50 historic crime scene photos have been gathered from a collection of over one million from the City Records Center in downtown Los Angeles for a special art exhibition. The Center - a vast repository that stores 150 years worth of the city documents - contained boxes upon boxes of negatives from the Special Investigations Division, America's oldest crime lab. Photographer and LAPD reserve officer Merrick Morton gained access to the site and has spent the last 13 years rifling through the boxes, finding everything from bank robbery notes to murder scenes (main).

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