The coldest cold murders

One worked at a second-hand store, another drove milk wagons. One was a foreman at a bakery.

All had one thing in common. They were murdered, at about the turn of the century in Los Angeles. They were visiting their girls, found murdered in a ranch house or a rooming house, shot in the back, shot in the belly, shot in the eye. One was knocked down with a rock.

These are snippets of lives cut short from long ago.

These are the oldest cold cases in Los Angeles Police Department history, courtesy of homicide Detective Robert Bub.