- Of all the celebrity deaths that have ever occurred,
there are still some that remain unsolved,
despite some of those murders being in very public places.
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Here are 10 infamous celebrity
murders that remain unsolved.
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Number 10 is the Notorious B.I.G.
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Well-known 90s rapper Christopher George Wallace,
more commonly know as the Notorious B.I.G.,
or Biggie Smalls,
was born on May 21st, 1972,
in Brooklyn, New York.
Biggie became a leading star for the East Coast
and brought competition against the West Coast
scene during a hip hop feud.
On September 7th, 1996, Biggie's former friend,
Tupac Shakur, was murdered in a drive-by shooting,
which affected Biggie in a way,
making him increasingly paranoid that he might be next.
In the early hours of March 9th, 1997,
16 days before the release of what would be
his biggest album, Life After Death,
Biggie was leaving an after-party
with his entourage and had stopped at a red light
when someone pulled up alongside them
and opened fire, hitting him four times.
The shooter was described as a black male
with a blue shirt and a bow tie
but was never actually caught.
Biggie died just hours later in the hospital,
his killer never found and the case unsolved.
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Number Nine is William Desmond Taylor
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On the morning of February 2nd, 1922,
49-year-old actor and director, William Desmond Taylor,
was found dead in his bungalow
in West Lake, Los Angeles.
The victim of multiple gunshot wounds to the back,
Taylor's murder was nearly impossible to solve,
especially after the initial investigation
was bungled so badly that most
of the physical evidence was destroyed or simply vanished.
Upon finding the actor dead, a man presenting himself
to be a doctor was allowed to examine Taylor's body
and declared that he died of a stomach hemorrhage.
Soon after, investigators discovered he'd been shot
but that the doctor had vanished
and never was identified.
Witnesses claimed that they saw a man with dark hair
fleeing the scene shortly after the murder.
But to this day, the nearly century-old crime
remains a cold case
with no solid leads or suspects,
motives, or even where the gun that shot Taylor is.
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Number Eight is Jack Nance.
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Best known for his acting roles
under Director David Lynch in Eraserhead
and Twin Peaks, Jack Nance lost his life
at 53 years old in what can only be described
as suspicious circumstances.
On the morning of December 30th, 1996,
Nance was found dead on the bathroom
of his South Pasadena, California,
apartment by his friend Leo Bulgarini.
The official cause of death was ruled
as a subdural hematoma,
or a traumatic brain injury,
but it was established that Nance was alone in his home.
On December 29th, the previous day,
a bruised-up Nance met with Bulgarini
and another friend named Catherine Case for lunch
and claimed he'd been beaten up by a young man
outside of Winchell's Donuts store earlier that morning.
But, authorities investigating the incident
found no evidence of the altercation whatsoever.
The actual cause of Jack Nance's death may never
be known and remains unsolved to this day.
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Number Seven is Jill Dando
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Born on November 9th, 1961,
in Somerset, England,
Jill Dando was an award-winning journalist
and television personality known
for hosting the show Crime Watch
and being named the 1997 BBC
Personality of the Year.
Around 11:32 a.m.
on April 26th, 1999,
Dando was about to enter her house
in Fulham, London, when an assailant
grabbed her from behind, forced her to the ground,
and shot her in the head as if executing her.
She died instantly and though the murder took place
in broad daylight, her killer was never caught.
A neighbor witnessed the shooter leaving the property
and described him as a six-foot-tall
white man around 40 years old,
but he still had never been identified.
Some claim the 37-year-old newswoman
was targeted by Serbian or Yugoslav groups
or was killed over a conviction
that was the result of her news reports.
Sadly, the case has more questions
than answers, even to this day.
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Number Six is Natalie Wood.
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Best known for her roles in A Rebel Without a Cause
and West Side Story, Natalie Wood
was found dead off the coast of Catalina Island
on the morning of November 29th, 1981.
She was recovered 1.6 kilometers from the Splendour,
an 18-meter yacht that she'd been on the night before
with her husband, Robert Wagner,
and fellow actor, Christopher Walken.
It was determined that the actress
had drowned sometime in the night,
and an inflatable dinghy was found nearby
that authorities believed she'd taken from the boat.
Wagner later confessed that he'd been fighting
with his wife the evening before
over her relationship with Walken.
But Wood's death was ruled as an accidental drowning.
Friends revealed that she had a fear of water,
especially dark water,
and questioned why'd she leave the yacht at night.
Wood's death certificate was changed in 2011
to say drowning and other undetermined factors,
factors which many of us may likely never know.
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Number Five is Peter Ivers.
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Though he never quite reached mainstream success,
musician Peter Ivers seemed to be friends
with every big player in the entertainment industry.
That is until his untimely death.
The 36-year-old songwriter and television host
was found bludgeoned to death
in his Los Angeles loft apartment
on March 3rd, 1983.
Authorities were certain that a hammer
had been used as the murder weapon,
but little else could be determined
as police utterly failed to contain the scene.
Unbelievably, officers allowed several
of Ivers' friends to access the apartment
just hours after the musician's body was found
and even permitted Director David Jove
to leave with the bloody sheets off Peter's bed.
Investigators couldn't determine who the killer was
with dozens of fresh fingerprints and hair samples.
With hundreds of potential suspects
and a contaminated crime scene,
it's understandable why this horrible murder
is still, to this day, unsolved.
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Number Four is Tupac Shakur.
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On September 7th, 1996,
around 11:15 p.m.,
25-year-old hip hop artist Tupac Shakur
was shot four times while riding in the passenger seat
of friend Suge Knight's car in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Witnesses claim a white Cadillac pulled up
alongside their vehicle while stopped at a red light,
rolled down their window, and opened fire,
hitting Tupac twice in the chest,
once in the arm, and once in the thigh.
He died in hospital of his injuries just six days later.
It's been speculated that the shooting
was retaliation for an altercation
between Tupac and Compton, California,
gang member, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson,
that took place earlier that night during a boxing match.
However, there was never any sufficient evidence,
and Shakur's own entourage refused
to give statements to authorities.
One officer even tried asking the rapper
who shot him before he passed out
but only got cursed at instead.
The case has never been officially solved.
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Number Three is Princess Diana.
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On August 31st, 1997, a car accident
in Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France,
took the life of Diana, Princess of Wales,
along with her companion, Dodi Fayed,
and driver, Henri Paul.
Although the crash was officially ruled as an accident
caused by Paul being inebriated and speeding,
a number of people believe that
the Princess was, in fact, murdered.
In fact, many of them claim that the UK's
Royal Family are the ones behind it.
The conspiracy theory is that they
wished to stop Diana from marrying
and starting a family with Fayed,
who was a Muslim billionaire.
Adding fuel to the conspiracy fire
was the fact that the first person
who apparently reached to Diana after the crash
was a doctor who claimed she seemed unharmed
before she suddenly went into cardiac arrest,
and the fact that the Royal Family
refused to come back from their summer home
after hearing of her death.
A new investigation has been launched
to try to get to the bottom of this tragedy,
but, sadly, it remains unsolved.
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Number Two is Bob Crane.
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On June 29th, 1978,
the body of 49-year-old
actor and director, Bob Crane,
was discovered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment
by Victoria Ann Berry, his co-star and friend,
after Crane failed to show up to a lunch meeting with her.
Crane, who starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan
on the CBS television series Hogan's Heroes
for six seasons, was found bludgeoned to death
with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck.
Sadly, local law enforcement were ill-equipped
to handle an investigation of that magnitude at the time
as the Scottsdale Police Department
had no homicide division.
Their main suspect was John Henry Carpenter,
who helped Crane film a number of his sexual conquests.
But there were several holes in the case,
including that the murder weapon was never found.
Authorities believed the object used
to beat Crane to death was a camera tripod,
though it and the culprit behind
his killing were never found.
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And Number One is Marilyn Monroe.
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As one of the most famous women of her era,
and possibly the biggest sex symbol of the 1950s,
Norma Jean Mortenson, better known
by the name Marilyn Monroe, should have been
living an exciting and happy life.
But sadly, that life was cut short
on August 5th, 1962,
when the 36-year-old starlet was found dead
in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home.
Discovered naked in her bed with a bottle
of pills next to her and a phone in her hand,
Monroe's death was quickly ruled a suicide
with investigators citing her recent
hospitalization due to psychiatric issues.
However, many still to this day believe
Monroe was murdered, with some blaming the CIA,
while others blame Robert Kennedy,
who allegedly wanted to silence her
about an affair the two were having.
For proof, theorists point to how she was found,
as her housekeeper sensed something
was wrong and ran to check on her.
But we may never know the truth.
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