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.