When a well-to-do couple named Charles and Lois Hitchcock are discovered hacked to death on their fruit farm in Garden Grove, California in January of 1888, suspicions quickly turn to an itinerant German, who has been looking to buy a property in the area.

This is a special "this day in true crime history" episode of Most Notorious, narrated by Erik Rivenes.

References:

Los Angeles Evening Express, 1/27/1888, p. 5.

Los Angeles Times, 1/27/1888 p. 4.

Los Angeles Evening Express, 1/28/1888 p. 5

Los Angeles Times, 1/28/1888 p. 4

Los Angeles Herald, 2/1/1888 p. 2, 4.

Los Angeles Evening Express, 2/18/1888 p. 5

Los Angeles Herald, 2/19/1888 p. 2

Los Angeles Herald 3/16/88 p. 4

Los Angeles Evening Express, 10/22/1888 p. 8

Los Angeles Evening Express, 11/2/1888 p. 1

Los Angeles Evening Express, 11/15/1888 p. 1

Los Angeles Herald 11/15/1888 p. 1

Orange County history: http://www.ocalmanac.com/History/hi01d.htm

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Today in MoNo History: The 1888 Murders of Charles and Lois Hitchcock