Sal Mineo Death Site (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / West Hollywood / Los Angeles, California
 murder site, historical layer / disappeared object
Mineo received best supporting actor Oscar nominations for "Rebel Without A Cause," and "Exodus."
He was renting an apartment in West Hollywood, at 8569 Holloway. Marvin Mitchelson, the famous lawyer, owned it. On Thursday Feb 12, 1976 he returned home from the Westwood playhouse, where he was rehearsing the play, "P.S. Your Cat is Dead." He parked his blue Chevelle in the parking garage, and headed up to his flat. Just outside the garage, a knife-wielding maniac confronted him.

Mitchelson's mom and neighbor Raymond Evans heard Mineo scream, "Help! Help! Oh my God!" Evans rushed to the scene and found Sal lying in a pool of blood trailing 10 feet to the sewers. Evans saw that Sal was losing colour in his face and tried giving him mouth to mouth, but the stab wounds were fatal. After 5 or 6 minutes of gasping, Sal was dead at 37. Police arrived, and sealed off the scene for investigation and covered Mineo's body with a cloth.

The case was still unsolved for a year and a half, until a Michigan prison inmate Lionel Ray Williams did a bit of bragging to fellow prisoners that he had killed the star and in 1979 Williams was convicted. He is serving 51 years to life, but was paroled in the 90's

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Coordinates:   34°5'26"N   118°22'42"W

Comments

  • 51 years to life but paroled? blind justice here folks
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