Dead in Hollywood is a true-crime web series of strange and tragic Hollywood deaths.
June 12, 2024, marks the 30th anniversary of the gruesome murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. We headed out to their graves earlier this year and retraced the famous Bronco chase.
Go behind the sign to the Mountain View Mortuary & Cemetery in Altadena, CA, where Adventures of Superman star George Reeves is interred. I spent the day walking around the cemetery and quickly realized that I was the only person there—well, the only living person. I definitely got the feeling I was being watched.
Go behind the sign to June 16, 1959. Sometime between 1:30 and 2 AM, Adventures of Superman star George Reeves died from a single gunshot wound to the head in the upstairs bedroom of this modest home here on Benedict Canyon Drive in Los Angeles. He was 45. The house itself looks hauntingly the same as it was at the time of Reeves’ death. Exactly what happened that night has never fully been resolved, and though ruled a suicide, suspicious events surrounding the incident cast doubt on Reeve’s official cause of death. This is Dead in Hollywood. The Night Superman Died. Let’s go behind the sign.
Go behind the sign to the morning of August 5, 2022. Actress Anne Heche (“Six Days Seven Nights,”I Know What You Did Last Summer”) was involved in three car crashes. The final crash, the most serious, inflicted critical injuries on the actress and destroyed a home. Throughout her life, Anne Heche endured mental illcnessexual abuse, drug abuse, misogyny, and homophobia before her shocking death at the age of 53. Everyone was shocked by her death, but if you were paying attention, it wasn’t all that shocking. Dead in Hollywood: The Crash of Anne Heche (Episode 21) Created, Produced, Written, and Edited by David Castro (Castroburger) WEBSITE: https://www.deadinhollywood.com/ STORE: https://deadinhollywood.bigcartel.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/deadinholly... SOURCES: https://pastebin.com/Ce9gJP7Q CONTACT: thehellfirepress@gmail.com
Go behind the sign to the afternoon of April 1, 1984 when singer Marvin Gaye was killed by his father in the family’s home…
Today would have been Rebecca Schaeffer’s 54th birthday. I can’t believe it’s been she’d be 54. She’s been gone longer than she was alive. Her life was cut tragically short by a stalker at the age of 21. Go behind the sign to the afternoon of July 18, 1989...
Go behind the sign to Halloween Eve 1982 when scary monsters and super creeps roam the streets of West Hollywood, stalking their unsuspecting prey. 22-year-old "Poltergeist" actress, Dominique Dunne, is going over lines with her co-star, actor David Packer, at her home on Rangely Ave. On this particular Halloween Eve, a monster was making his way towards Dominique's home. The home she once shared with the monster. Like so many women, Dominique knew her monster.
Clara Blandick is best known for her memorable minor role as Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz. Blandick's health steadily declined throughout the 1950s. Her eyesight began to fail, and she was suffering greatly from severe, painful arthritis. At 69, Blandick had gone into seclusion at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. On April 15, 1962, Blandick returned to her room from Palm Sunday services at church. She began rearranging her room, placing her favorite photos and memorabilia in prominent places. She laid out her resume and a collection of press clippings from her lengthy career. She dressed immaculately in an elegant royal blue dressing gown, and with her hair properly styled, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. She lay down on a couch, covered herself with a gold blanket over her shoulders, and tied a plastic bag over her head. She left the following note: "I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord, my soul, to take. Amen." Blandick's landlady, Helen Mason, found her body Sunday morning. In preparing to die, she had disposed of all her medicines the previous week. Her ashes were interred at the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Security at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Blandick's ashes lie just yards from those of Charley Grapewin, her on-screen husband in The Wizard of Oz.
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Go behind the sign to Halloween Eve 1968. Two young hustlers ring the doorbell at 3110 Laurel Canyon Drive. A gracious 69-year-old man greets them. Once upon a time in Hollywoodland, the old man was one of the greatest Latin heartthrobs to have ever lived. Now frail and looking older than his age, the man invites the hustlers inside - "a burly young man of 22 and a slender twink of 17--his murderers." By morning, the old man would be dead, badly beaten, and having choked to death on his own blood. The bludgeoned body was that of actor Ramon Novarro.
Go behind the sign to Calvary Cemetery... in the search of Ramon Novarro's grave.
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