# Celebrities Who Murdered **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730 "2009-01-30T17:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/1 "2009-01-30T17:23:37Z")
Inspired by[this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504323). Who are some celebrities who are believed to have committed murder (I was going to say “convicted” but that would leave out OJ). So far, I can think of: OJ Simpson Robert Blake Phil Spector Sid Vicious Any others? ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/2 "2009-01-30T17:27:39Z")
Fatty Arbuckle Christian Brando ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/3 "2009-01-30T17:34:53Z")
Lead Belly Charles S. Dutton ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/4 "2009-01-30T17:36:05Z")
William Burroughs ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/5 "2009-01-30T17:36:33Z")
Come on, the jury’s still out on Phil Spector. Not so on someone who has worked with him, drummer Jim Gordon. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/6 "2009-01-30T17:37:10Z")
> [@malkavia](#): > > Fatty Arbuckle He was tried and acquitted, and AFAIK no one really thinks he did it. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/7 "2009-01-30T17:39:31Z")
[Lana Turner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner) was believed by some to have stabbed her boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, even though her daughter was the one blamed and it was ruled a justifiable homicide. [Claudine Longet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine_Longet), French singer and ex-wife of Andy Williams, killed her ski-instructor lover “Spider Sabich”, but it was ruled negligent homicide and she only got 30 days in jail. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/8 "2009-01-30T17:39:53Z")
Anne Perry, who writes popular murder mysteries, was convicted of helping a friend bludgeon the friend’s mother to death when the girls were both minors. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/9 "2009-01-30T17:40:50Z")
He was _believed_ to have committed murder, which I admit will make for a very loose list. Clark Gable was _believed_ to have struck and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk. Again, that doesn’t look likely. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/10 "2009-01-30T17:41:22Z")
John Wilkes Booth was pretty well known even before he shot Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/11 "2009-01-30T17:43:14Z")
[Laura Bush](http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/12 "2009-01-30T17:50:03Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > He was _believed_ to have committed murder, which I admit will make for a very loose list. Well, if lurid rumor is allowed, Albert Goldman’s scurrilous John Lennon biography (which I have not actually read) apparently claims that Lennon killed a sailor in Hamburg, and was directly responsible for Stu Sutcliffe’s death as well. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/13 "2009-01-30T17:50:04Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > Anne Perry, who writes popular murder mysteries, was convicted of helping a friend bludgeon the friend’s mother to death when the girls were both minors. Is she one of the _Heavenly Creatures_ girls? ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/14 "2009-01-30T17:50:55Z")
[Bertrand Cantat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Cantat) french singer of [noir desir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_D%C3%A9sir), [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXzsAyu5QU) is their most famous song he murdered his wife in 2003 and was released in 2007 ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/15 "2009-01-30T17:53:13Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Is she one of the _Heavenly Creatures_ girls? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/16 "2009-01-30T17:55:39Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Is she one of the _Heavenly Creatures_ girls? Yes. She was born Juliet Hulme, so she was Kate Winslet. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/17 "2009-01-30T18:00:38Z")
There’s some thought that Wallace Beery and Cubby Broccoli contributed to Ted Healey’s death. Don King killed a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/18 "2009-01-30T18:02:38Z")
Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/19 "2009-01-30T18:03:49Z")
Does vehicular manslaughter count? [Rebecca Gayheart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Gayheart) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-murdered/483730/20 "2009-01-30T18:05:00Z")
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