I believe that Chester Burnett killed someone but it was treated by the local police as one of those killings that black folk did to each other and they didnt choose to investigate it.
Leslie Grantham is well known in the UK as a tv star, especially for his portrayal of Dennis Watts (A.K.A Dirty Den) in soap opera East Enders.
He murdered a taxi driver in Germany,
He still generates quite a bit of controversy, personally I dislike soap operas anyway, but given that he murdered a man, it gave me another reason to avoid the show.
I personally think that serving 10 years in prison for a murder is not enough, especially in his case as it was an attempted robbery, not a barfight of some other hot blooded incident.
Artie Shaw, in his biography The Trouble with Cinderella, wrote of fatally injuring a pedestrian while driving in New York in 1929. As a result, he was ordered to remain in NYC until the case came to trial. This deprived Artie of his income as a traveling musician.
I have trouble seeing how someone whose celebrity came from his being a gunfighter really qualifies for this thread. However, if you and two of your nearest and dearest would like to spend your time until Doomsday 35 feet from Wild Bill AND Calamity Jane I can set you up with a plot in the Deadwood cemetary.
His celebrity came from starring in a series of “dime novels” that exaggerated his prowess as a gunfighter, not from his actual achievements as a lawman. He is believed to have killed around 20 men, one of them in a “drop and draw” showdown; in the dime novels, it’s more like 100 men and numerous “drop and draws”. It’s sort of like the difference between the real-life Elliot Ness and the G-man superhero who was featured in the TV show “The Untouchables.”
And Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini knocked out Deuk-Koo Kim in 1982, who subsequently died. The WBC instituted the twelve round limit on fights, ostensibly to ensure boxer safety. In 1983, Kiko Bejeines was knocked out by Alberto Davila in the twelvth round. Bejeines died without regaining consciousness three days later.
Other boxers who killed opponents:[ul][li]Sugar Ray Robinson, who knocked out Artie Doyle []“The Great White Hope” Jess Willard, who knocked Bull Young out of the ring whereupon Young died of a broken neck []Max Baer, whose opponent Frankie Campbell died after being knocked out []Max also softened up Ernie Schraaf, such that Schraaf died after being knocked out by Promo Carnera. (The incident was fictionalized in The Harder They Fall.)[]Ezzard Charles, who knocked out Sam Baroudi, who then died[/ul] [/li]
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Shodan
If you include sporting accidents, Cleveland Indian Ray Chapman was killed by a ball pitched by New York Yankee Carl Mays in 1920, I believe the only time this happened in the major leagues.
I came here to mention Aaron Burr and Lana Turner, but those have been taken. So all I’m left with is Ty Cobb – who was definitely involved in beatings and stabbings, and is rumored to have once beaten someone to death.
In the similar earlier thread on this topic I asked if murders ordered by a political leader counted or whether they would be similar to killings during combat. If it’s the former, there are a number of infamous leaders who could be named.
A drunken Vince Neil, lead singer for Motley Crue (I don’t know how to do those little vowel champagne bubbles) wrecked his Pantera, killing fellow musician Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, the Hanoi Rocks drummer.
