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CELEBRITY DEATHS THAT ARE STILL UNSOLVED

Added on: 30th Apr 2016

 

 

MARY MEYER

Mary Meyer

Mary Meyer was an American socialite and former wife of

CIA official Cord Meyer. There were also rumours she was one

of the many mistresses of John F. Kennedy. On October 12th,

1964, Meyer finished a painting and went for a walk along the

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath in Georgetown.

A mechanic named Henry Wiggins was trying to fix a car on

Canal Road and heard a woman cry for help. He claimed he

heard two gunshots and ran to a low wall overlooking the path

where he saw “a black man in a light jacket, dark slacks and

a dark cap standing over the body of a white woman.”

Meyer’s murder stirred speculation relating to Kennedy’s

presidency and assassination, but her case remains unsolved.

 

 

BARBARA COLBY

Barbara Colby

On July 24th, 1975, just three episodes into the TV series Phyllis,

American actress Barbara Colby and a colleague, James Kiernan,

where walking to their car following an acting class in Venice,

California, when they were shot inside a parking area. Colby was

killed instantly; Kiernan, however, was able to describe the

shooters to police before he too succumbed to his wounds.

Kiernan said he did not recognize the two men, and that the

shooting had occurred without warning, reason, or provocation.

Police noted there was no attempt to rob the pair and

concluded it was a random drive-by shooting. The killers

were never identified and the case remains open.

 

 

PETER IVERS

Peter Ivers

Peter Ivers was the host of the New Wave Theatre when he was

found bludgeoned to death in his bed in downtown LA in 1983.

Evidence was later unearthed by the Los Angeles Police Department

to reopen the investigation. Upon his death, many of his friends

went to Ivers’s apartment to mourn him, though in doing so, they

accidentally tampered with the evidence. A number of theories

abound about the cause for his murder. Some say he was killed

as the result of a robbery, while others speculate that he was

killed by one of the attendees of the New Wave Theatre.

The case remains open.

 

 

ANNA NICOLE SMITH

Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith was a famous American model, actress, and

television personality. She first gained popularity in Playboy and

was the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She is best remembered,

however, for her mysterious death and the media drama

surrounding it. Initially, her behaviour on her reality show

started to become increasingly bizarre, but when her son died

of an overdose in 2006 she literally broke down. She died

six months later after suffering from severe depression, under

the influence of a similar drug cocktail her son had died from.

But what remains unknown is whether Smith took her own life

or if someone prescribed the fatal cocktail.

 

 

JACK NANCE

Jack Nance

Nance was an American actor known for his work with

director David Lynch, particularly for his role in the film

Eraserhead. He died in South Pasadena, California, on December

30th, 1996, under mysterious circumstances. Nance told friends

a young homeless man had beaten him outside a Winchell’s

Donuts store in the early hours of December 29th. Later that day,

he lunched with friends who noticed a visible

“crescent-shaped bruise” under his eye. After lunch he

went home, complaining of a headache. The injuries he

received caused a subdural hematoma, resulting in his death

the following morning. A subsequent police investigation

failed to find evidence of the alleged fight.

 

 

JOHNNY STOMPANATO

Johnny Stompanato

The murder of Stompanato, a bodyguard for LA’s notorious

Mickey Cohen, a member of the Jewish Mafia, was a major

television event, with both Stompanato’s girlfriend, actress

Lana Turner, and Cohen testifying in court. According to

rumours, Stompanato was a very violent bodyguard, a

blackmailer, and allegedly abusive to Turner. Though the

star’s daughter, Cheryl Crane, was found guilty of justifiable

homicide for stabbing Stompanato with a kitchen knife at

Turner’s house while he was attacking Turner, rumours

Persisted that Turner had murdered Stompanato and passed

the crime on to her daughter, who was fourteen at the time.

 

 

RONNI CHASEN

Ronni Chasen

Chasen was an American publicist who once represented

such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such

as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others. She was

shot in Beverly Hills on November 16th, 2010, at approximately

12:28 a.m., as she was driving home from the Hollywood

premiere of the film Burlesque. No one knows who killed her

and what motivation he/she had for doing so and

five years later her murder still remains a mystery.

 

 

DAVID CARRADINE

David Carradine

On June 4th, 2009, Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in

Bangkok, where he was shooting a movie. The actor’s body was

found hanging in the closet with a rope tied around his neck,

wrist, and genitals, in an apparent act of autoerotic asphyxiation.

Following his death, two of Carradine’s ex-wives, Gail Jensen

and Marina Anderson, stated that Carradine did indeed have

a self-bondage fetish and an overall penchant for “deviant

sexual behaviour.” Since then, Anderson has publicly

claimed she conducted her own investigation into

Carradine’s death, claiming he was murdered.

 

 

JILL DANDO

Jill Dando

Jill Dando was a famous English journalist and television

presenter who worked for the BBC for fourteen years. She was

killed by a single gunshot wound to the head on April 26th, 1999,

after leaving the home of her fiancé. Her death sparked

Operation Oxborough, the biggest murder inquiry and

largest criminal investigation since the hunt for the

Yorkshire Ripper, but her murder remains unsolved.

 


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