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The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder

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by Robert Graysmith

French Ripper

  Frigole, Americo

  Frocade, Fred

  “Frombee, Richard” (Richard Frank)

  Fronek, Emil

  Fuller, Evan Louis. See also Gorilla Man

  Gallivan, Charles

  Gamble, William

  gambling, gross from

  “gamekeeper’s thumb”

  Gannon, Jerry

  Gans, Joe

  Garbor, Jacob

  Gargantua

  Gemora, Charlie

  Gerber, Sam

  Ghent, Flo. See Polillo, Florence Sawdey (victim)

  Gibson, Harry

  Gillen, Eddie

  Gillen, Leslie

  Gilmore, William

  Girvin, William

  Gloor, Ernest

  Glover, Fred

  Goebbels, Josef

  Goff, Charles

  Golden. M. (Judge)

  Golden, Isador

  Golden Gate Bridge

  Golden Rule of Investigations

  Gold Rush

  Gordon, George (victim)

  Gordon, Harry. See also Gorilla Man

  Gorilla (Redmond)

  Gorilla Man. See also Bay Hotel autopsy murder; Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); Hotel Irwin autopsy murder

  alcohol impact on

  appearance of

  arrest of

  autopsies, attraction to

  Clara Newman (victim)

  copycats

  criminal record of

  fear of

  Florence W. Johnston (victim)

  “gamekeeper’s thumb”

  hands of

  Harry Gordon as

  head injuries of

  hospitalization of

  James Ferral (father)

  jewelry sold by

  knuckle-walking by

  landladies and

  laugh of

  Lillian Fabian (aunt)

  Lydia (wife)

  Mary Theresa Martin (wife)

  migraines of

  motive of

  nails of

  necrophiliac

  pattern of

  razors and

  religious mania of

  remorse not felt by

  sailor as suspect

  sexual appetite and perversion of

  strength of

  traveling serial killer (first)

  uncontrollable impulses of

  victims

  Wilhelm Johnston as

  Gorilla Men. See also Fell, Slipton; Hughes, Jessie Scott Johnson “Josie” (murder); Kingsbury Run Butcher; Malcolm, Wesley (murder)

  Europe and

  plague of

  “Gorilla Murderer, the”See also Gorilla Man

  gorillas

  actors portraying in movies

  cartoon

  defined

  intelligence of

  silverback gorillas

  wild vs. captive

  Gorman, Joe

  Gottiand Roland

  Gowan, Lola (victim)

  graft investigation (SFPD)

  Graham, Robert

  Grant, Virginia (victim)

  Gray, Wilton A.

  Great Ferry Loop

  “growlers”

  Guidera, Matthew

  Guinta, Joseph

  Gurtler, Harry

  Hade, Harry

  hair analysis

  Hale, Willie

  Hall, Frances

  Hall, George

  Hallinan, Vincent

  Hammett, Dashiell

  hands of Gorilla Man

  handwriting analyses

  Hang and Rattle (Bosworth)

  Hansen, Ed

  Hanson, Paul (victim)

  Harcout, Harry

  Hardy, David

  Hardy, Oliver

  Harper, Hugh D.

  Harpin, Germania (victim)

  Harris. L.

  Harris, Jerry

  “Harry” sailor suspect

  Hotel Irwin autopsy murder

  Kingsbury Run Butcher

  Hart, Alex

  Hart, Brooke

  Hassing, Oliver “Dutchman of Richmond Station”

  Hawkins, Teresa

  Head, A. H.

  Healy, Will

  Hearst, William

  Heaton, Wilma

  Hemmer, Winifred “Boots” (Dorothy Farnum, Dorothy Farmen, Dorothy Wanworthy)

  Hendricks

  Hickman, William Edward

  Higgins, Mark

  Hill, Katherine

  Hinson, Sydney

  Hitler, Adolph

  Hobart, Walter

  Hoertkorn, Emma

  Hoertkorn, Harold

  Hoertkorn, Thomas

  Hogan, James

  Holland, Rush L.

  Holmes (Justice)

  Holmes, Jack

  Holohan, James

  homicide, crime of

  Honore, Emmet

  hoodlum

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hoover, J. Edgar “Speed”

  horripilation

  hot dogs

  Hotel Irwin autopsy murder

  Bay Hotel autopsy murder similarities

  Francis LaTulipe and

  friend of Irene

  handwriting analyses

  “Harry” sailor suspect

  “Mr. & Mrs. J. Wilkins”

  Mrs. Robert E. McCarthy (Irene Chandler) (victim)

  press coverage of

  razor used in

  Houdini, Harry

  Housman, Nathan S.

  Huffart, Mrs. Flint

  Hughes, Jessie Scott Johnson “Josie” (murder). See also Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); Egan, Frank J. (public defender)

  anniversary of murder

  cause of death

  chloroform used in murder

  fears of

  foreknowledge of murder

  Francis LaTulipe and

  Frank Egan and

  hit-and-run accident

  locked windows of Josie’s home

  murder of

  protection ordered by Charles Dullea

  tire marks evidence

  touring car (Phaeton Lincoln)

  walking alone at night

  Hughes, Ramon Lee

  “Human Gorilla” (David D’Ascanio)

  human vs. animal blood

  Hunter (Captain)

  Hurley, Jay

  Huse, Charles

  Husted, Harry

  hyoid bone and strangulation

  intelligence of gorillas

  International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)

  International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA)

  “in the business” vs. “on the force”

  investigation, process of

  invisible clues

  “Irish demotion”

  Irwin, Robert. See also Gorilla Man

  Ivey, Gomez

  Jack, Lile T. (Judge)

  Jacks, Mrs. Albert E.

  Jack the Ripper

  Jekyll and Hyde cop (Hassing)

  Jeppesen, Louise

  Johnson, Big “the Scandinavian”

  Johnson, George Q.

  Johnson, Hiram W.

  Johnson, Jack

  Johnson, John “Andy”

  Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert

  Johnston, Florence W. (victim) . See also Gorilla Man

  Johnston, Wilhelm. See also Gorilla Man

  Jones. E.

  Jordan, Lois

  journalism in San Francisco

  Joyce, Tom

  Kahn, Max

  Keaton, Buster

  Keeler, Leonarde

  Keenan, Alexander

  Keith, Bette

  Kelleher, Bart

  Kelly, Mary

  Keneally, Percy

  Kenny, Gerald

  Kent, Janet

  Kerr, George “Red”

  Keyes, Asa

  KGO

  KGPD

  kidnapping of Frank Egan

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  killers

  Kincaid, Helen

  King, Ella

  King Kong (film)

  Kingsbury Run Butcher

  dismembered bodies

  Edward Andrassy (victim)

  end of murders

  fingerprints

  Florence Sawdey Polillo (victim)

  Francis Edward Sweeney (suspect)

  Francis LaTulipe and

  Frank Dolezal (suspect)

  “Harry” sailor suspect

  Jackass Hill

  knife used in murders

  motive of

  photo reconnaissance flights

  press coverage

  quilt (homemade) found

  Rose Wallace (victim)

  sites of murders

  surgical skill of killer

  warnings by Gorilla Man

  Kip, Harold

  Kipp, Lorraine

  Klamath

  Knight, Flo

  Knight, Robert (Albert Tinnin)

  knives as weapons

  Kostura, Peter

  labor riots

  lacerations vs. incisions

  LaDue, John

  “Lady of the Lake”, 177

  Lally, Burt

  Lambert, Marion

  landladies and Gorilla Man

  Lang, Ervin (victim)

  Larsen, Benjamin

  Lashley, A. A.

  latent prints

  LaTulipe, Francis (Inspector)

  anatomists

  appearance of

  Bay Hotel autopsy murder case

  blood, human vs. animal

  Charles Dullea and

  Clara Newman case

  fingerprint analyses

  Gorilla Man and

  hair analysis

  handwriting analyses

  Hotel Irwin autopsy murder case

  incisions vs. lacerations

  Josie Hughes’s case

  Kingsbury Run Butcher case

  lab equipment

  lacerations vs. incisions

  latent prints

  lust murder

  mug shots

  mutilators

  pattern of sadistic torture

  Rosetta Baker case

  “scarf-skin”

  sexual gratification from murder

  “tattooing” of uniform

  tire marks analysis

  Whitechapel (London) comparison with Embarcadero

  White Mask Gang case

  Laughing Gorilla. See also Gorilla Man

  “Laughing Killer of the Woodside Glens”, viii, 122, 241. See also Fell, Slipton

  “Laughing Murderer, The”See also Fell, Slipton

  laugh of

  Gorilla Man

  Slipton Fell

  Layne, Arthur

  Leavenworth Penitentiary

  Leavitt, Ray

  Leavy, Harold

  Leidy, Rod

  Leland, Sherman

  Leland, T.B.W.

  Lemon, Al

  Lemon, Anna Eve

  Lemon, Fred

  Lennon, Milton

  Leonard, Barbara

  Leonard, Joseph

  Leter, Earl

  Lewis, John

  Lillis, George

  Little, Mrs. G. E.

  Lomasney, Ed

  Lombardi, George

  Long, Michael T.

  Longan, Eddie

  Louw, Rena and Warren

  Lowe, Edmund

  Lowell, Robert

  Ludolph, Henry “Dutch”

  lust murder

  Luz, Mary

  Lynch, Charles

  Lyons, G. V.

  Lyons, Lawrence J. “Pat”

  “Mad Dancer”

  Madden, James F.

  Mailliard, Ward

  Majestic Bottling Plant

  Malcolm, Wesley (murder). See also Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors)

  anniversary of murder

  appearance of

  blood of

  Dodge used in Pier 26 robbery

  Francis LaTulipe and

  friend of Dullea and Quinn

  funeral of

  murder of

  Peter M. Farrington, Jr. “Whispering Gunman”

  robbery, Pier

  widow of

  witnesses

  woman involved in robbery (Pier 26)

  Malloy, Jim

  Maloney, Lawrence

  Maloney, Thomas

  Malvese, Luigi

  Manual of Safes, The

  Manual of Toxicology, A (Brundage)

  Marcus, Carl

  Mardueno, Mary

  Marsh, Arthur

  Martin, Edward (Kenneth Meyers “Tiny”)

  Martin, Eleanor

  Martin, Florence. See Polillo, Florence Sawdey (victim)

  Martin, Mary Theresa

  Matheson, Duncan

  Matowitz, George J.

  May, Minnie (victim)

  May, Orley

  Mayeda, Frank

  McAuliffe, Edward

  McBride

  McCann, Will

  McCarthy, Eddie

  McCarthy, Jim

  McCarthy, John

  McCarthy, Michael

  McCarthy, Mrs. Robert E. (Irene Chandler) . See also Hotel Irwin autopsy murder

  McCarty, Ignatious

  McConnell, Frank

  McConnell, Mary (victim)

  McConologue, William V.

  McCoy, Kid “Killer”

  McCoy, Olla (victim)

  McDonald, Bernard

  McDonald, James

  McDonnell, Martin

  McDonough, Tom and Pete

  McFarlane, Pineapples

  McGee, Peter

  McGinn, Allan

  McGovern, Walter

  McGovern, William

  McGrath, James

  McIlveen, T. J.

  McInerney, Tom

  McIntyre, Peter

  McKeever, George

  McKenna, John T.

  McKenzie, Edwin

  McMahon, John

  McMahon, William

  McNamara, Joseph L.

  McShack, James

  McWilliams, Mary

  Mengler, August

  Merylo, Peter

  Meyers, Blanche (victim)

  Meyers, Kenneth “Tiny” (Edward Martin)

  “Meyers, Mr. & Mrs.” . See also Bay Hotel autopsy murder

  Mignola, Joe

  Miles, James

  Miller, Thomas

  Mino, Alec

  Mister Dynamite (film)

  Mitchell, Michael

  Mitchell.

  mobs, safe

  Mokris, John

  “Monk”

  Monks, Florence (victim)

  Montgomery, Florence

  Montgomery, Genevieve “Jean” (Genevieve Clucky) murder

  Montgomery, John

  Moody, A. M.

  Mooney, Tom

  Moore, Vivian

  Moresco, Tony

  Morgan, Les

  Morgan, Ralph Jerome “Tiny”See also Fell, Slipton

  morgues, fascination about

  motiveless sequential murders . See also Gorilla Man

  motives

  Bay Hotel autopsy murder

  Charles Dullea’s interest in

  Gorilla Man

  Kingsbury Run Butcher

  Slipton Fell

  motorcycle units (Flying Squad)

  movies, actors portraying gorillas in

  Mudd, Bill

  Mull, Grover murder and homicide

  “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The” (Poe)

  Murphy (Sheriff)

  Murphy, A. M.

  Murphy, Morris B.

  Murray, Edward. See also Farrington, Peter

  Murray, May (victim)

  Musil, Emil

  mutilators

  nails of Gorilla Man

  Nash, Jay Robert

  National Auto Theft Bureau

  NBC radio
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  necrophiliac

  Nell, Harmonica (May Stockdale)

  Nelson, Battling

  Nelson, Earle Leonard . See also Gorilla Man

  Nesbit, Mary (victim)

  Ness, Eliot

  Nevel, Charles

  Newman, Clara (victim) . See also Gorilla Man

  Newman, Merton

  Nieri, Lawrence

  Nilan (Officer)

  “nipped the fender”

  Nolan, Joe

  O’Brien, Dan

  O’Brien, Martin

  O’Brien, Ray

  O’Brien, Wilson

  O’Donnell, Martin

  O’Doul, Lefty

  O’Farrell, Jasper

  Ohio. See also Kingsbury Run Butcher

  Ohley, Henry

  Old Mint

  O’Leary, George

  Oliver, Charles. See also Fell, Slipton

  Olsen, Charles

  Olson, John

  112 Observation Squadron/37th Division of the National Guard

  O’Neill, Dan

  O’Neill, Frank

  O’Neill, Jim

  Orlandi, Leslie

  Orlando, Frances

  Otts, William

  Oviedo, Louis

  Pace, Bonnie (victim)

  Page, Charles

  Page, George

  Parker, Al

  pattern of sadistic torture and murder

  Patterson, Bob

  Patterson, Emily (victim)

  Patterson, William

  Pearce, Arthur

  Perry, Joe

  “petermen”

  Peters, Henry “Hank”

  Peyser, Minnie

  Pflueger, Timothy

  Phantom . See also White Mask Gang

  Pidgeon, Ralph

  Pierce, Rev. Jason Noble

  Pinkerton, William A.

  “Playboy Murderer, the”See also Fell, Slipton

  Poe, E. A.

  Poe the Detective (Walsh)

  “Poker Slayer, The”See also Fell, Slipton

  police cars of SFPD upgrade

  Police Commission and William Quinn

  Polillo, Andrew

  Polillo, Florence Sawdey (victim) . See also Kingsbury Run Butcher

  Porter, Martin

  Postel, Oscar

  postmortem lividity

  Pound, Ezra

  Prendergast, Thomas

  Prohaska, Janos

  Prohibition

  Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe

  prostitution, gross from

  Purcell, Charles

  Purvis, Melvin

  putrefaction

  quake and fire (1906)

  Quigley, Joseph M.

  Quinlan, J. O.

  Quinlan, William

  Quinn, William J. (Chief of Police). See also corruption within SFPD; Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); SFPD

  admissibility of evidence Senate bill

  antiunion and antireform stance of

  appearance of

  background of

  bank robberies and

  “Bloody Thursday”

  cigar and

  command structure

  Communists, stand against

  corruption

  districts shaken up by

  Flying Squad (motorcycle units)

  Frank Egan and

  Hassing scandal

  honest cops, reward for

  nightsticks with a lead core

  office of

  Phantom as policeman

  Police Commission and

  radio and

  retirement of

  salary of

  schooling for police

 

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