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Elizabeth Duncan mug shot
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Elizabeth Duncan stood beside her attorney, S. Ward Sullivan, for
her arraignment on a murder charge
in the slaying of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Olga Duncan. December 30,
1958. A. P. wirephoto.
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Elizabeth Duncan
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Elizabeth Duncan
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Elizabeth Duncan
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Elizabeth Duncan
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Elizabeth Duncan with her son, Frank.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54, on trial on charges of hiring two men
to kill her son's bride, shouted,
"You're a liar!" at the prosecutor
from her courtroom seat during testimony by the son, Frank
Duncan,
right. Her outburst followed the prosecutor's challenge of the son's
love for his wife.
Duncan was a defense witness.
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Elizabeth Duncan
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Frank Duncan and his mother, Elizabeth Ann. (Photograph by Los
Angeles Times)
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Elizabeth Duncan was returned to jail after being found guilty of
murder. February 28, 1959.
(A. P. wirephoto)
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Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan (center), 54, stands between attorney S.
Ward Sullivan (left) and her son,
attorney
Frank Duncan, as she
hears Judge Charles F. Blackstock deny her motion of a new trial
and
sentence
her to death in the gas chamber for hiring two men to kill
her daughter-in-law,
Olga Duncan.
April 3, 1959.
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Elizabeth Duncan