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When Fred Fulford stood trial for the first-degree murder of Al Adamson in late-1999, more than four years after the fact, the prosecutors alleged that the duo argued over money before Fred, in anger and mere greed, hit him over the head with a large and heavy object.
Murder. Adamson was reported missing in 1995. Five weeks later, after law enforcement officials discovered his remains beneath the concrete and tile-covered floor where his hot tub once sat at his home in Indio, California, his live-in contractor Fred Fulford was arrested at the Coral Reef Hotel in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
On June 21, 1995, real horror invaded the life of Al Adamson, a beloved cult-film director who made enjoyably schlocky fright fare on the order of Psycho A-Go-Go (1965), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), and Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972). At the time, Adamson, 66, had hired contractor Fred Fulford, 46, to undertake a major refurbishing of the ...
Fred Fulford, 46, was taken into custody in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hotel room, Bower said. Police said Fulford traveled to Florida about a week before Adamson was reported missing.
Over the next few weeks, nobody could tell where Al was, and Fred continued living at the house. Eventually, Ken reported Al missing to the police, and an investigation revealed that Al was murdered. He was found buried under a layer of concrete in his house, where a bathtub used to be.
The contractor- Fred Fulford– was eventually tried, convicted, and sentenced 25 years to life for Adamson’s murder, but there wasn’t much follow-up in the press. Wouldn’t you know that the man cited as making the most inept exploitation movies ever ended up with a death that didn’t even work.
Gregory spends the most effort examining the circumstances of Adamson’s murder by Fred Fulford in 1995. He goes into this in some detail, interviewing the people involved from the investigating detectives to Adamson’s housekeeper and friends and family.
