# Albert Salmi's Death
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-salmis-death/314097
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 25, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-salmis-death/314097 "2005-07-25T19:31:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-salmis-death/314097/1 "2005-07-25T19:31:54Z")
When this fine character actor first shot his wife, then turned the gun on himself back in the late-80s, iirc, it was announced as a simple murder/suicide. After reading the synopsis of a bio of him, it seems that it is now being listed as a “mercy killing” of his terminally ill wife, then his own suicide.
I am in no way asking for a debate on the topic of “mercy killing” vs. cold-blooded murder, I simply wish to know if any Dopers have more info on the circumstances of his and his wife’s death than what I could glean from the net.
Thanks,
Sir Rhosis
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### Author:  [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-salmis-death/314097/2 "2005-07-25T20:33:16Z")
There’s a biography out about him; the author also wrote one about “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” star Peggy Ann Garner, who was married at one time to Salmi
[http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/id30.html](http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/id30.html)
VCNJ~
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albert-salmis-death/314097/3 "2005-07-25T21:01:34Z")
Reading a review of that book elsewhere is what tipped me off that it was more than just a simple murder.
Thanks, I may spring for it, or ask the library to get a copy.
Sir Rhosis