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Lionel Williams became the prime suspect after his wife told authorities that he came home covered in blood the night of the murder. Williams was arrested, and in 1979 he was sentenced to 50 years behind bars for the murder of Mineo. He was also found guilty of committing 10 robberies.
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 Bonnie...
Delving into police files from the 1976 murder, the best-selling author of 'L.A. Confidential' extrapolated the complicated two-year pursuit of Sal Mineo's killer — retold here from the point of ...
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 ."
Lionel Ray Williams, a young pizza delivery man with a long criminal record, was convicted and sentenced in March 1979 to 57 years in prison for killing Mineo and also for committing ten robberies.
Then, out of the blue, Michigan authorities reported that Lionel Williams, arrested on bad check charges, was bragging to everyone that he had killed Mineo.
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.
