Killer’s Archive Yields More Photos
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department today released about 30 more photographs taken by William Richard Bradford, seeking to find out if any of the people were victims of the convicted killer.
Officials in July released photos of 54 women who were photographed two decades ago by Bradford. One of those women was discovered strangled and dumped in the High Desert. About two dozen women in that first round of photographs have come forward.
Bradford is on death row at San Quentin. He was convicted in 1988 in the murders of Shari Miller and Tracy Campbell.
“From 1966 to 1984, Bradford posed as a freelance photographer, seeking to lure potential victims. Bradford photographed his victims in sexually explicit positions, committed sexual assaults, strangled them and disposed of their bodies in public places,” according to the wanted posters listed at lacountymurders.com/wanted/LADIES1.html.
The photographs were seized at Bradford’s residence when he was arrested in 1984. The original group of 54 photographs sat untouched for years until a cold case detective decided to take a second look.
Anyone with information about the women is being asked to call the sheriff’s homicide bureau or e-mail LACountyMurders@lasd.org
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