apr 26, 1973 - HAWTH OFF HEAD John Doe No. 52 Head found

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"The head of a dismembered man slain Saturday [4/21/73] was found in a paper bag Thursday [4/26/73] at a Gardena area paper company. An employee of the Pioneer Paper Co., 705 W 182nd St, Los Angeles, told police he was stacking material on a conveyor belt when the head rolled from a brown supermarket bag in front of him. [...] Police said the man apparently had been stabbed, strangled, and dismembered sometime Saturday" (TDB 4/27/73).

"The head was discovered amid paper trash at a Carson paper stock company [...]. The head later was traced to a Long Beach trash bin" (LBPT 5/20/73).

NamUs: https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/72085
NCMEC: https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1398468/1
Doe Network: https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/main.html?id=3455umca
Article package, Apr. 1973: https://cacoldcases.blogspot.com/p/article-package-on-wilmington-john-doe.html
Twelve articles on Southland Four, Apr. to Aug. 1973: https://cacoldcases.blogspot.com/p/southland-four-apr-1973.html
LBPT 8/26/73 [SW list]: https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-telegram-southland-five-in-lbpt-sw/200592021/

** In the LBI/LBPT Secret Witness list alongside the rest of the Southland Five from Aug. 26, 1973 to July 28, 1974. **

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