# Murdered on stage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 30, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254 "2003-03-30T19:16:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/21 "2003-03-31T07:17:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by rexnervous \*  
> \*\*Abe Lincoln? \*\*

Honest Abe was killed in the _audience_.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/22 "2003-03-31T07:21:23Z")

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. . . in a box that was [on stage](http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/fordsketch.jpg).

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**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/23 "2003-03-31T12:30:52Z")

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IIRC, Johnny Ace killed himself backstage before a show playing Russian Roulette.

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**Author:** ![Elvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Elvis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/24 "2003-03-31T15:05:19Z")

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[Jackie Wilson](http://www.history-of-rock.com/jackie_wilson.htm) suffered a heart attack onstage in 1975 and was hospitalized continuously from that time until his death 9 years later. Most of that time was spent in a coma.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/25 "2003-03-31T15:56:55Z")

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**Ormer Locklear** , actor and stunt pilot, was killed in 1920 while filming an aerial scene for his starring film _The Skywayman_—but it wasn’t “murder.”

**Pearl White** , by the way, died in a Paris hospital, of liver failure, in 1938.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/26 "2003-03-31T16:15:30Z")

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[John Darling](http://www.toonopedia.com/darling.htm)?

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/27 "2003-03-31T17:25:55Z")

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Les Harvey, of the Scottish rock group Stone the Crows, was electrocuted (because of a short in the equipment) during a performance in 1972.

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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdered-on-stage/165254/28 "2003-03-31T17:34:52Z")

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The singer from Morphine, Mark Sandman, died of a heart attack suffered onstage in Italy, and died en route to the hopital. Not murder, but definitely tragic; they were a great band.

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