
Christine Labbee, 22, of Ventura gets a closer look at an exhibit on the Heaven’s Gate cult suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, in 1997. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Jeffrey Howell, 29, of Highland Park looks at a display showing Liberace’s cat Candy and Jayne Mansfield’s Chihuahua. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Christine Labbee looks through a room that includes an exhibit on Charles Manson. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
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A death mask of notorious gangster John Dillinger (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Christine Labbee gets a closer look at an exhibit in the war room. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Dina Castanada, 23, of Santa Fe Springs and Artemio Lomas, 24, of Anaheim watch a film showing real death scenes. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Christine Labbee is surrounded in the specimen room. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)