How I wrote “True Crime Burbank”
As you might imagine, I spent many, many hours at the Burbank Central Library on the microfiche reader – a classic old school piece of research equipment. It went out of order a week or two after I had finished however, but apparently the Friends of the Burbank Library are paying for the Valley Times…
The location of the Burbank PD – then/now
The Burbank Police station was originally at the corner of East Olive Avenue and South 3rd St in Burbank. There’s a commemorative plaque about it at what’s now the Another Broken Egg Café. It still had a law enforcement connection though: many jurors serving next door in the local courts come for breakfast or lunch.…
A horrific story that DIDN’T make the book “True Crime Burbank”
TESSA is the name for the digital photograph collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, and among the many thousands of images are those of the Valley Times, a newspaper that was in print from 1946 to 1970. One particularly chilling photograph of theirs shows Burbank detective Robert Coveney holding what appears to be some…