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Sheriff's homicide detectives arrested Arcadia man, 72-year-old Richard Cole, in the 2001 fatal stabbing of his wife, Charlotte S. Cole, who was found slumped over the steering wheel of her minivan in an Arcadia parking lot. Although he was a person of interest initially, the case remained open and went cold for 10 years. Investigators gathered evidence in the last year, leading to his arrest on Sunday, November 4, 2012. This was his second arrest in the killing.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Cole, Charlotte S.
Cole, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Murders
Walton, Bill
Item ID
33453AN
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LASD Homicide Assisting Arcadia Police Department With Murder Suicide Investigation. Husband, a 75-year-old and wife, a 68-years-old, are described as Asian and found dead in their home on the 500 block of Los Altos in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 9, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 9, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Murder-suicide
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Marcia Whitehead grew up in Arcadia and is following her dream of being an opera singer.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2005
Pages
p. D1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2005
Pages
p. D1
Subjects
Whitehead, Marcia
Opera
Singers
Item ID
29639AN
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Attempted murder/suicide by trying to drive off Chantry Flat at Santa Anita Dam. Suspect holed up at the dam house, SWAT called. The suspect, a 21-year-old Los Angeles resident named Patrick Anthony Gonzalez, was arrested by Arcadia police.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gonzalez, Patrick Anthony
Murder-suicide
Item ID
33560AN
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Suspect in Arcadia murder-suicide leaves son a note. Couple was going through contentious divorce. Couple was identified as Mel Liu, 49, and Cherry Liu, 50 year old. Mel Liu left a letter to their 14 year old son trying to explain the fatal steps he took. Cherry Liu was well known through her work at Arcadia Chamber of Commerce and Sierra Madre Senior Services.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35440AN
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John W. Grainger, in a Chevrolet coupe, led Arcadia police on a high speed car chase that ended in a crash. An opened wine bottle was found in his car.

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Newspaper
The Journal
Date
March 22, 1950
Pages
p. 1 (See basement box 112.)
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Newspaper
The Journal
Date
March 22, 1950
Pages
p. 1 (See basement box 112.)
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Grainger, John W.
Item ID
33192AN
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One bottle of Baldwin's Old Port.

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Date
c.1900
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Date
c.1900
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Wines and winemaking
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1174
Collection
Photographs
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Clara Baldwin Stocker is seated in the back of a motor car, wearing a hat. The man behind the steering wheel is probably her husband, Harold Stocker. There are two other unidentified people at the rear of the vehicle and one unidentified woman seated on the running board in the front right corner of the photo. Handwriting on the bottom of the photo reads, "August 11th 1914."

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Date
August 11, 1914
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Date
August 11, 1914
Subjects
Baldwin Stocker, Clara
Stocker, Harold
Physical Description
5x7 b&w
ID
1568
Collection
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Hunt continues for gunman in Arcadia car-to-car shooting on the 210 Freeway near Baldwin Avenue which left a woman named Betty Hernandez, 36, of Monrovia, dead. This shut down the freeway for several hours on September 4. On September 5, two people were found dead, in the block of 600 West Huntington Drive, an apparent murder-suicide. Both victims were in their 50s.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 9, 2021
Pages
p. 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 9, 2021
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Crimes and criminals
Deaths
Hernandez, Bertha
Hernandez, Betty
Murder-suicide
Shootings
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Arcadia Mayor Sho Tay pays tribute to Cherry Liu as the Oct 2 City Council Meeting was adjourned. Liu, 50, who was murdered by her estranged husband August 1, who then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide. Liu was a long-time resident of Arcadia and volunteered for the City of Arcadia, frequently acted as an interpreter for city staff to help bridge the gap between cultures.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Liu, Cherry
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35483AN
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Arcadia City Council members in a decorated Hupmobile Touring Car parked on Huntington Drive next to City Hall. Behind is a fire truck, also decorated, with 10 firemen on the truck or near by. The man at the wheel of the fire truck is Jim Nellis. The Councilmen are: Rear seats,L-R: Ferd E. Gram; Arthur N. Multer; and Charles Hawk. Front seat,L-R: Samuel L. Wheeler; John T. Joyce, the Hupmobile Dealer. Fifth member of Council, John Granville was not present. Seated at the base of the pillar of City Hall is Adrian Winkler and standing beside him is George Newton. The vehicles are on their way to dedication of new concrete span over Santa Anita Wash.

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Date
1925
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Date
1925
Subjects
Gramm, Ferd E
Hawk, Charles
Multer, Arthur Nelson
Wheeler, Samuel L.
Joyce, John T.
Newton, George
City Hall
Winkler, Adrian
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1075
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Photographs
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Husband shot wife and himself. Deaths of Arcadia couple--Paul Thornton, 58, and his wife Maria Lockwood, 54--ruled murder-suicide. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and she died of a gunshot wound to the chest. They had been married a little over a year. They lived in the block of 600 West Huntington Drive.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Deaths
Lockwood, Maria
Murder-suicide
Shootings
Thornton, Paul
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Roberta Reynolds, 39, an English teacher at Temple City High School, was shot by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - suicide
Reynolds, Roberta
Item ID
30528AN
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A 90-year-old woman was found dead in her Arcadia home, an apparent murder victim.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Item ID
1379AN
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The body of 41-year-old Monrovia woman Carina Yong-Yi Sun was found in a vehicle at the Los Angeles County Arboretum on January 9, 2012. The cause of death has tentatively been ruled suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Suicides
Sun, Carina Yong-Yi
Item ID
32975AN
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California Horse Racing Board suspends trainer Steven Jiro Miyadi's license after battery on jockey Alex Solis. Miyadi is a 59-year-old resident of Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 29, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 29, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Horse trainers
Jockeys
Miyadi, Steven Jiro
Solis, Alex
Item ID
34875AN
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Li Zhu, a 68-year-old Arcadia man suspected in the death of his daughter-in-law, Xiaolin Li, was found dead in his jail cell at Twin Towers Correctional Facility at 450 Bauchett Street in Los Angeles. Deputies found him hanging in his cell, in an apparent suicide.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2014
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2014
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Suicides
Item ID
33924AN
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Bullets stop car after chase: 17-year-old mental patient at the wheel. Arcadia police cars joined a sheriff's unit in a high speed chase that ended when the car spun out of control on Colorado Place. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.

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Newspaper
Arcadia News Post
Date
August 21, 1967
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia News Post
Date
August 21, 1967
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Tulleners, Paul
Item ID
34144AN
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One bottle of Baldwin's sherry.

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Date
c.1900
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Date
c.1900
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Wines and winemaking
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1173
Collection
Photographs
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Cherry Liu, a Sierra Madre City employee was murdered August 1 in a tragic murder-suicide in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Her estranged husband Mel Liu died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35435AN
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Newspaper Index
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