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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
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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 East Arcadia home of an Asian family was vandalized by unknown assailants. A motive for the crime was not known, though there was some speculation that it may have been racially motivated.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 4, 1986
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 4, 1986
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Vandalism
Item ID
3430AN
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A 58-year-old woman was raped and her house robbed by two males in their 20's.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1988
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1382AN
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Obituary/death notice. Lillian Lehman, 90, was found dead in her home. She may have been a murder victim.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28183
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Lehman, Lillian
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
28377AN
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The 14-year-old son of Arcadia real estate developer Charles Bluth shot and killed one of 2 intruders who had broken into the Bluth home in the exclusive Whispering Pines neighborhood.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1368
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 21, 1986
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 21, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1367AN
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On February 27, 1979, James Hooper, an Arcadia mailman, entered an Arcadia residence through a window when he heard moaning inside. An elderly woman, living alone, had fallen and broken her hip. On February 26, 1981, Hooper again heard moaning sounds at the same residence and entered to find the same woman had again fallen. She was taken to the hospital.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1981
Pages
p. A-7
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1981
Pages
p. A-7
Subjects
Postal Service - Hooper, James
Item ID
2242AN
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Margaret "Peg" von Bauer, 76, a 37-year resident of Arcadia, died suddenly at her home in Yorba Linda on June 11.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1992
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1992
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p. A-1 photo
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von Bauer, Margaret
Item ID
91AN
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Mrs. Irene Wiley was freed on the charge that she was wilfully cruel to her 13-year-old daughter Susan Wiley, aka "Genie." The article was written by Lucie Lowery. A 13-year-old girl named Susan Wiley was reportedly a prisoner in her home for all her life until a social worker discovered the abuse. Susan's parents Clark Wiley and Irene Wiley were arrested. The family home is at 6722 Golden West Avenue, in a county area of Arcadia. Susan Wiley was living in an environment of total isolation and deprivation and was malnourished. She cannot talk, is deformed, barely able to walk and is not toilet trained. She has been placed in the care of Children's Hospital. The child has come to be known by the alias "Genie." See VF "Wiley, Susan" for hard copy.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1970
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1970
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Child Abuse
Feral children
"Genie"
Suicides
Wiley, Clark
Wiley, Irene
Wiley, Susan
Item ID
31750AN
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A 13-year-old girl named Susan Wiley was reportedly a prisoner in her home for all of her life until a social worker discovered the child abuse. Susan's parents Clark Wiley and Irene Wiley were arrested. The family home is at 6722 Golden West Avenue, in a county area of Arcadia. Susan Wiley was living in an environment of total isolation and deprivation and was malnourished. She cannot talk, is deformed, barely able to walk and is not toilet trained. She has been placed in the care of Children's Hospital. The child has come to be known by the alias "Genie." See hard copy in VF Wiley, Susan aka "Genie"

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 18, 1970
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 18, 1970
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Child Abuse
Feral children
"Genie"
Wiley, Clark
Wiley, Irene
Wiley, Susan
Item ID
31748AN
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Police are looking into possible connections between 2 murders of elderly women that occurred January 7. Lillian Lehman, 91, was found dead at her Fashion Park Villas condominium in Arcadia, while Dora Peyton, 78, was beaten to death at her Duarte home.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1988
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1988
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Lehman, Lillian
Item ID
1380AN
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17 year old Arcadia High School senior Maria Zamorano, known to her friends as "Angie" was killed in a car accident on Wednesday.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 7, 1992
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p. A-1 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 7, 1992
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p. A-1 photos
Subjects
Zamorano, Maria
Item ID
75AN
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Arcadia police arrested two Arcadia High School students 16, and 15, in connection with a December 11 racial incident in which a cross was burned and anti-Asian epithets were scrawled on the front yard of a home in the 200 block of Arbolada Drive. The two boys were booked for damaging property based on ethnic origin and were released to the custody of their parents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1396
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1395AN
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Janet S. Maynard was arrested for trying to raffle off her $250,000 home for $25 a ticket. She organized the raffle because she has been unable to sell the house and was facing foreclosure.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 15, 1982
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 15, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Real Estate
Item ID
2290AN
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Karen Garr is one of 400 pari-mutual clerks behind the betting windows at Arcadia's Santa Anita Park. The 44 year old Arcadia resident has been close to the race track since 1969, when she started as a "pony girl" in the back stretch of Santa Anita Park.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1992
Pages
p. B-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1992
Pages
p. B-2
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - People
Garr, Karen
Item ID
22AN
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A peacock fleeing a fight smashed a plate glass window and splattered shards of glass near a one-year-old child at a home on Valido Ave. Steve Bocian, assistant to the Arcadia City Manager, said the incident appears to be a historic first.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Peacocks
Item ID
2157AN
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Law enforcement officials said the number of bank robberies in Arcadia has tripled since last year.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 17, 1991
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 17, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1400AN
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Obituary/death notice. Killed in fall in Angeles National Forest.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 5, 1990
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 5, 1990
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Dicmas, John
Item ID
28998AN
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Gladys Daniels, 96, shared some of her memories with the Arcadia Tribune starting with when she came to Arcadia with her family in 1925.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1984
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Daniels, Gladys
Item ID
1404AN
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Two security guards foiled an auto theft in Methodist Hospital's parking lot. Eight arrests were made and two stolen cars were recovered.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 29, 1989
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1390AN
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Biographical notes on Arcadia Police Officer Louise Smiderle. She is the first and only woman police officer to ride solo in an Arcadia police unit.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 25, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 25, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Police - Smiderle, Louise
Item ID
2224AN
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