Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he...
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