The Region - News from July 16, 1987
Detectives arrested the nephew of one of two elderly women found stabbed to death in an apartment in an unincorporated area near Compton. Larry August, 26, was booked at the Sheriff’s Department station in Carson for investigation of murdering his aunt, Josephine Smith, 69, and her sister-in-law, Marie Boller, 85, Sheriff’s Sgt. Merlyn Poppleton said.
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