These are three of the stories that inspired cases in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire. Here are the stories of overstressed engineer Eugene White ("The Driver's Seat"), the accidental death of Jay Dee Chitwood and his wife's drunken confession ("A Marriage Made in Heaven"), and the avoidable disaster of O'Connor Electroplating ("Nicholson Electroplating").

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SOURCES

“15 Identified Dead in Blast; One Missing.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.

“Alleged Murder Victim Admits Burning House.” Hanford Morning Journal, August 5, 1947.

“Chemist Cited Blast Peril, Inquest Hears.” Salt Lake Tribune, March 12, 1947.

“Chitwood to Be Sentenced to Death.” Hope (Arkansas) Star, February 20, 1946.

“Dead Chemist's Premonition of L.A. Blast Told At Hearing.” Los Angeles Daily News, March 11, 1947.

“Driver Absolved in Pedestrian Death.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 15, 1944.

“Engineer Arrested in Arson.” Valley Times, August 4, 1947.

“Executive Feared Slaying Victim in St. Valentine's Day Car Mystery.” Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1947.

“It Mushroomed Like Atom Blast.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 21, 1947.

“Missing Businessman Confesses It Was Fake.” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1947.

“Murdered One Mate Just to Scare Present One, Wife Says.” Los Angeles Daily News, January 22, 1947.

“Obituaries – White, Eugene Hamilton.” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1995.

“Only Kidding, Woman Says of Confession.” Metropolitan Pasadena News, January 23, 1947.

“Pedestrian Death Inquest Set.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 11, 1944.

“Plant Cleared of Negligence in Faital Blast.” Wilmington Daily Press Journal, March 13, 1947.

“Police Discount Murder Story.” San Pedro News-Pilot, January 22, 1947.

“Prosecutor Seeks Blast Facts Prior to Inquest.” Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1947.

“Psychiatrist to Examine Woodland Hills Arsonist.” Topanga Journal, August 29, 1947.

“Reasons For Flight Told By Missing Angeleno.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1947.

“Secret War Work Blast Cause Denied.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.

“Some Compare Blast to Quake, A-Bombing.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.

“Television Used at Blast Scene First for Coast.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.

“Tool Plant Executive's Arson Case Arraignment Set Aug. 25.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, August 9, 1947.

“Torrance Orders Sidewalk Built.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 25, 1944.

“Traffic Death Turns Into Murder Mystery.” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1947.

“Woman Admits Spouse Murder Two Years Ago.” Pomona Progress Bulletin, January 22, 1947.

“Woman Released After Confession Discounted.” Long Beach Independent, January 24, 1947.

“Woman's Murder Story Proves False.” San Pedro News-Pilot, January 24, 1947.

“Woodland Hills Arsonist Sane; Held For Trial.” Topanga Journal, September 5, 1947.

“Woodland Hills Man Charged With Arson.” Topanga Journal, August 8, 1947.

Newsreel footage of aftermath of O'Connor Electroplating: (230) Deadly explosion, 1947, O'Connor Electroplating Co. Los Angeles - YouTube