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- With no known motive or suspect, rumors spread that drugs and S&M sex in the gay fast lane led to his killing. Fifteen months later, guards at a Michigan jail heard inmate Lionel Williams boast that he had murdered Mineo. In 1979 Williams was convicted of the crime and of 10 brutal robberies, and was sentenced to at least 51 years in prison.
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Mar 16, 1979 · LOS ANGELES, March 15 (AP) — A pizza deliveryman, Lionel Williams, was sentenced today to at least 50 years in prison for killing Sal Mineo, the actor, and committing 10 robberies. Juage...
Dec 21, 2018 · Calhoun County Deputy Ronald Peek confirmed his prior statement. He heard inmate Lionel Williams tell inmate Philbert Gallard that he killed Sal Mineo. Inmate Gallard said, “You’re ...
Aug 31, 2022 · Two weeks after Sal Mineo's murder, when the Los Angeles Police arrested a 19-year-old named Lionel Ray Williams on an unrelated robbery charge, he told investigators he'd heard Sal Mineo had been murdered during a drug deal gone wrong, according to Michael Gregg Michaud's 2010 book "Sal Mineo: A Biography." The police believed Williams' had ...
- Andrew Amelinckx
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Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in Hollywood, California. Mineo was parking his car behind his apartment when neighbors heard his cries for help. Some described a white man with brown hair fleeing the scene. By the time they reached Mineo, he was almost dead from a deep wound to his chest. He died minutes later.
Sal Mineo was a famous teen actor in the 1950s. He co-starred with James Dean in both Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. The transition to adult roles did not come easily for Mineo, but he later appeared in films such as The Longest Day and Escape From the Planet of the Apes, and consistently performed guest spots on television series. On the night h...
For two years, the police searched in vain for clues to the killers identity. At first, they suspected that Mineos work for prison reform had put him in contact with a dangerous ex-con. Then their focus shifted to Mineos personal life. Investigators had discovered that his home was filled with pictures of nude men. But the homosexual pornography al...
- Missy Sullivan
Feb 12, 2006 · Mineo’s killer, 19-year-old pizza deliveryman Lionel Ray Williams, was convicted of second-degree murder, as well as 10 robberies in the neighborhood, and sentenced to 51 years in prison.
Sep 25, 1981 · The California Supreme Court denied without comment yesterday a hearing sought by Lionel Ray Williams, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 1979 in the death of Sal Mineo, the...
May 1, 2003 · Theresa Williams went to the police and recounted how her husband, Lionel Raymond Williams, had come home with blood on his shirt on the night of Mineo's stabbing death in February 1976. She claimed that her husband confessed to her that he had stabbed someone.
