Post by The Pumpkin King on Apr 24, 2019 14:36:15 GMT
Just a few celebs not mentioned that'll always be mysterious and memorable deaths.
Elizabeth Short, the 'Black Dahlia,' 1947
One of the most famous cold cases in U.S. history, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found naked in a vacant Los Angeles lot, her body cut in half at the waist, drained of blood and posed. Her face had been cut from ear to ear, and investigators later found evidence that she had been bound. It was the gruesome death of Short, an aspiring actress, that catapulted her into celebrity with an iconic name: Black Dahlia. Her murder remained unsolved over six decades later.
In recent years, evidence has surfaced that American physician George Hodel was responsible for the murder of Short. After George Hodel died in 1999, his son Steve Hodel, a former LAPD homicide detective, began to look at his father to discredit his father's early involvement with the case. His investigation began with the discovery of a photo album owned by George Hodel, which contained a portrait of a dark-haired young woman whom Steve Hodel believed was Elizabeth Short. Steve Hodel has since suspected his father of being the Chicago "Lipstick Killer" of the late 1940s, the Manila "Jigsaw Murderer" of 1967, and even the San Francisco "Zodiac Killer" of the late 1960s, among other such crimes. George Hodel may have been the writer of the legitimate 1970 Zodiac coded cipher mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle and turned over to SFPD. The solution and "cracking of the cipher" was performed by M. Yves Person, a high-school teacher in Paris. According to Person, George Hodel, using Ogham (an ancient Celtic alphabet) signed his real name, H O D E L, placing it both as the return address on the envelope and as a signatory inside the card which read, "You Ache to Know My Name...I'll Clue you in...". The code had remained un-deciphered for 45 years up until 2015.
Her case is currently an active investigation.
Marilyn Monroe, 1962
Beautiful, glamorous and doomed. Hollywood's most vibrant star died suddenly at just age 36. She was found dead in her bed on August 5, 1962, at her Los Angeles home, apparently due to a barbiturate overdose. Her death was officially ruled a probable suicide: She slipped into a coma after taking too many sleeping pills. But many fans thought it might have been an accidental overdose. Moreover, conspiracy theories about her demise have never entirely evaporated. Despite the coroner's findings, plenty of people to this day are willing to believe she was murdered for her involvement with President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert, as well as union leader Jimmy Hoffa and mob boss Sam Giancana. The coroner ruled at the time she had too many barbiturates in her body for it to have been an accident. She had overdosed before and suffered from sharp mood swings.
In 1983, Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, published his memoirs, in which he discussed Monroe's case and the allegations of discrepancies in the autopsy and the coroner's ruling of suicide. These included the claims that Monroe could not have ingested the pills because her stomach was empty; that Nembutal capsules should have left yellow residue; that she may have been administered an enema; and that the autopsy noted no needle marks despite the fact that she routinely received injections from her doctors. Noguchi explained that hemorrhaging of the stomach lining indicated that the medication had been administered orally, and that because Monroe had been an addict for several years, the pills would have been absorbed more rapidly than in the case of non-addicts. He also denied that Nembutal leaves dye residue. He noted that only very recent needle marks are visible on a body, and that the only bruise he noted on Monroe's body, on her lower back, was superficial and its placement indicated that it was accidental, and not linked to foul play. Noguchi finally concluded that based on his observations, the most probable conclusion is that Monroe committed suicide.
Monroe's case has since been ruled a suicide.
Tupac Shakur, 1996
Tupac Shakur, a highly successful American hip hop artist and upcoming movie actor, Shakur, and his entourage, were involved in a fight inside the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas three hours before Shakur's shooting. The fight was with American gangster Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson. On his way in a car headed to a club gig, Shakur was shot four times on Sept. 7, 1996, in a drive-by shooting. He was hit four times, twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh. One of the bullets went into Shakur's right lung. He died six days later, on Sept. 13, at a local hospital. He was 25. Detective Tim Brennan from Compton, California filed an affidavit naming Duane Davis and his nephew Orlando Anderson as a suspect, although fans and others have speculated as to Anderson's involvement in the killing. He was never charged with the murder. On May 29, 1998, Anderson died following a gang-related shootout.
Duane Keith "Keefe D" Davis (Born in 1966) is an American gangster, a member of the California-based gang known as The Southside Crips, and linked to the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G' Wallace. In 2009 during the investigation carried out by Greg Kading, Davies was given the opportunity of a plea bargain with the LAPD against his drug dealing charges. Davies accepted and gave a statement that contained vital information such as who gave the gun to Orlando Anderson and who shot the gun. July 2018, Davis confessed to having a role in the killing of Tupac after revealing he’s dying of cancer.
Shakur's case has reportedly been solved.
David Carradine ('Kill Bill'), 2009
Thai police found David Carradine, the actor and martial artist who starred in both Kill Bill films, naked and hanging in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room. The 72-year-old was in Thailand to work on his latest film, "Stretch", a manager said. A private autopsy found Carradine died of asphyxiation, ruling out suicide but leaving open the possibility of accidental death. His widow settled a wrongful death suit against the company behind the film in 2011, claiming an assistant was supposed to help Carradine navigate the city, but abandoned him the night before police found his body. She was reported to be receiving about US$400,000 from the company. Immediately following his death, two of Carradine's former wives, Gail Jensen and Marina Anderson, stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage. Anderson, who had plans to publish a tell-all book about her marriage to Carradine, said in an interview with Access Hollywood, "There was a dark side to David, there was a very intense side to David. People around him know that." Previously, in her divorce filing, she had claimed that "it was the continuation of abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly."
In his autobiography, he states that after his father's first wife of ten years (his mother) had a series of miscarriages, he discovered that she had had repeated illegal abortions without his knowledge. This rendered her unable to carry a baby to full term. It was with this backdrop of marital discord that, at age 5, David almost succeeded in committing suicide by hanging. His grave was marked on December 3, 2009. The monument proclaimed him to be "The Barefoot Legend".
Carradine's case still remains an accidental death.