Parker, Marion

Marion Parker,
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Name	Parker, Marion Gender: F
Birthname	Frances Marion Parker
born on	11 October 1915 at 02:30 (= 02:30 AM )
Place	Los Angeles, California, 34n03, 118w15
Timezone	PST h8w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	17°02' 21°31 Asc. 03°18'

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Biography

American homicide victim, kidnapped and murdered at age 12 by William Hickman on 17 December 1927. Her murder was deemed by the Los Angeles Times "the most horrible crime of the 1920s", and at the time was considered the most horrific crime in the history of California.

Parker went missing on 15 December 1927 after she was dismissed from her classes at Mount Vernon Junior High School in Lafayette Square: an unknown man, posing as an employee of her father, Perry, checked her out of school with the registrar, stating that her father had suffered an accident. The next day, the Parker family received ransom letters demanding $1,500 (equivalent to $23,672 in 2021) in gold. The letters were signed with various titles, including "Fate", "Death", and "The Fox"; and some had words written in Greek.

Following the orders of the ransom, Perry Parker—a bank employee—met his daughter's abductor in central Los Angeles on 17 December 1927. Upon the exchange of the money, the assailant drove away, throwing Marion's mutilated body out of his car as he fled. The child had been significantly disfigured, her limbs cut off, her eyes fixed open with wires, and her abdomen disemboweled and stuffed with rags; her limbs were discovered the next day in Elysian Park.

Parker's murderer was soon identified as William Edward Hickman, a 19-year-old former co-worker of Perry Parker. Law-enforcement officers tracked Hickman throughout the Pacific Northwest over several days, relying on sightings in Albany and Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, where he paid shop-owners with gold certificates given to him in the ransom. He was arrested in Echo, Oregon, on 22 December 1927, and then extradited to California, where he was convicted of Parker's murder. He made a written confession, in which he explained in detail how he strangled Parker, disarticulated her limbs, and disemboweled her.

Hickman and his defense claimed that he was insane, and that a deity, "Providence", told him to commit the kidnapping and murder. He was one of the first defendants in California to use what was then a new law, which allowed defendants to plead that they were not guilty by reason of insanity. Hickman was convicted of the murder, and sentenced to death. After an unsuccessful appeal, he was executed by hanging at San Quentin State Prison in October 1928. Marion Parker was survived by her parents; elder brother; and twin sister, Marjorie.

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Relationships

• sibling relationship with Parker, Marjorie (born 11 October 1915)

• homicide perpetrator relationship with Hickman, William (born 1 February 1908)

Events

• Crime : Kidnap Victimization 15 December 1927 (William Hickman)
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• Death by Homicide 17 December 1927 (Killed by William Hickman, age 12)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate and upgraded the Rodden Rating to BC/BR in hand. Previously this entry had same data: T.Pat Davis quotes Donald Bradley who personally investigated the case. Garth Allen gave the same as "recorded" in AA 12/1964.

(Bradley said that Marian's twin sister was born "at least an hour before." Drew gave 1925, 2:20 AM and said the twin was born a half hour earlier.) Scholfield provided birth certificate of twin sister Geraldine (later known as Marjorie Helen), born at 2:20 AM on 11 October 1915.

Categories

• Passions : Criminal Victim : Homicide victim (Kidnapped, then murdered)

• Passions : Criminal Victim : Kidnapping victim (Age 12)

• Personal : Birth : Twin, triplet, etc. (Twins)

• Personal : Death : Short Life less than 29 Yrs (Age 12)

• Notable : Famous : Criminal cases

• Notable : Famous : Newsmaker

• Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women