Leonard was Lane's birthname.
Son of Hein and Dena Kosters, owned the Lane Kosters Grocery and Men's Clothing Store in Sioux Center Iowa. He sold the business in 1935 and moved to Omaha Nebraska where he was practicing as an Attorney and selling real estate.
Lane Kosters was a distributor of Canticle Films. He, his wife and mother-in-law all died in a fire which destroyed their home in Santa Monica. Source: Variety Obituaries.
Sioux Center News Dec 11, 1952
California Police Discover Homicide In Kosters Deaths California police were still searching this week for the writer of anonymous letters which tipped Santa Monica crime investigators off on the possibility of murder in connection with the deaths of Lane Kosters his wife, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Van Der Mey, who were found dead in their fire-gutted home in Santa Monica Nov. 29.
Police said they received anonymous letters which suggested a further look into the case. An autopsy report stated that Mrs. Marie Kosters and her mother had been "manually strangled with terrific force."
Three possible causes for the death of Lane Kosters, 51, were listed. There was a quantity of soot in the bronchial passage, approximately 65 per cent carbon dioxide in the blood stream, and grayish granulated substance in the stomach which "may have been a barbiturate poison."
The anonymous letters reported Kosters had told Beverly Hills police of threats against his life. Police confirmed that statement. Police said Kosters had suffered recent financial setbacks and was in ill health.
Arson investigators said charred pieces of rug found to the Kosters home had been saturated with some inflamables.
Son of Hein and Dena Kosters, owned the Lane Kosters Grocery and Men's Clothing Store in Sioux Center Iowa. He sold the business in 1935 and moved to Omaha Nebraska where he was practicing as an Attorney and selling real estate.
Lane Kosters was a distributor of Canticle Films. He, his wife and mother-in-law all died in a fire which destroyed their home in Santa Monica. Source: Variety Obituaries.
Sioux Center News Dec 11, 1952
California Police Discover Homicide In Kosters Deaths California police were still searching this week for the writer of anonymous letters which tipped Santa Monica crime investigators off on the possibility of murder in connection with the deaths of Lane Kosters his wife, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Van Der Mey, who were found dead in their fire-gutted home in Santa Monica Nov. 29.
Police said they received anonymous letters which suggested a further look into the case. An autopsy report stated that Mrs. Marie Kosters and her mother had been "manually strangled with terrific force."
Three possible causes for the death of Lane Kosters, 51, were listed. There was a quantity of soot in the bronchial passage, approximately 65 per cent carbon dioxide in the blood stream, and grayish granulated substance in the stomach which "may have been a barbiturate poison."
The anonymous letters reported Kosters had told Beverly Hills police of threats against his life. Police confirmed that statement. Police said Kosters had suffered recent financial setbacks and was in ill health.
Arson investigators said charred pieces of rug found to the Kosters home had been saturated with some inflamables.
Leonard was Lane's birthname.
Son of Hein and Dena Kosters, owned the Lane Kosters Grocery and Men's Clothing Store in Sioux Center Iowa. He sold the business in 1935 and moved to Omaha Nebraska where he was practicing as an Attorney and selling real estate.
Lane Kosters was a distributor of Canticle Films. He, his wife and mother-in-law all died in a fire which destroyed their home in Santa Monica. Source: Variety Obituaries.
Sioux Center News Dec 11, 1952
California Police Discover Homicide In Kosters Deaths California police were still searching this week for the writer of anonymous letters which tipped Santa Monica crime investigators off on the possibility of murder in connection with the deaths of Lane Kosters his wife, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Van Der Mey, who were found dead in their fire-gutted home in Santa Monica Nov. 29.
Police said they received anonymous letters which suggested a further look into the case. An autopsy report stated that Mrs. Marie Kosters and her mother had been "manually strangled with terrific force."
Three possible causes for the death of Lane Kosters, 51, were listed. There was a quantity of soot in the bronchial passage, approximately 65 per cent carbon dioxide in the blood stream, and grayish granulated substance in the stomach which "may have been a barbiturate poison."
The anonymous letters reported Kosters had told Beverly Hills police of threats against his life. Police confirmed that statement. Police said Kosters had suffered recent financial setbacks and was in ill health.
Arson investigators said charred pieces of rug found to the Kosters home had been saturated with some inflamables.
Son of Hein and Dena Kosters, owned the Lane Kosters Grocery and Men's Clothing Store in Sioux Center Iowa. He sold the business in 1935 and moved to Omaha Nebraska where he was practicing as an Attorney and selling real estate.
Lane Kosters was a distributor of Canticle Films. He, his wife and mother-in-law all died in a fire which destroyed their home in Santa Monica. Source: Variety Obituaries.
Sioux Center News Dec 11, 1952
California Police Discover Homicide In Kosters Deaths California police were still searching this week for the writer of anonymous letters which tipped Santa Monica crime investigators off on the possibility of murder in connection with the deaths of Lane Kosters his wife, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Van Der Mey, who were found dead in their fire-gutted home in Santa Monica Nov. 29.
Police said they received anonymous letters which suggested a further look into the case. An autopsy report stated that Mrs. Marie Kosters and her mother had been "manually strangled with terrific force."
Three possible causes for the death of Lane Kosters, 51, were listed. There was a quantity of soot in the bronchial passage, approximately 65 per cent carbon dioxide in the blood stream, and grayish granulated substance in the stomach which "may have been a barbiturate poison."
The anonymous letters reported Kosters had told Beverly Hills police of threats against his life. Police confirmed that statement. Police said Kosters had suffered recent financial setbacks and was in ill health.
Arson investigators said charred pieces of rug found to the Kosters home had been saturated with some inflamables.
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