Register Reporter Larry Welborn, who started his career at the paper when James Musick was Sheriff, is seeking to identify the 10 most notorious crimes in the county. To make up the list he is featuring 50 notorious crimes, one each day, on his Blog in the Register.
Silent film star Bebe Daniels is entertained while serving 10-day sentence at Orange County Jail in 1921 for speeding
He will be seeking input from readers and nominations of crimes he has overlooked.
He started the series this week and the first three cases he profiles all have a link to the Sheriff's Department. The cases so far include the 1892 lynching of jail inmate Francisco Torres, the 1920 apprehension of serial killer Mose Gibson, who was brought back to Orange County from Arizona by a team of Sheriff's Deputies, and the incarceration in the county jail of silent film star Bebe Daniels, sentenced for speeding in 1921. Her case appears to have been the most celebrated car chase in the county until OJ Simpson passed through in a Ford Bronco in 1994.
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