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Dec 29, 2021 · Sweeney was later convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served three years and seven months for murdering Dunne. He returned to work as a chef at another upscale LA restaurant. It's believed Sweeney eventually changed his name and left Southern California for good (per Reel Reviews ).
Dec 22, 2021 · On October 30, 1982, "Poltergeist" star Dominique Ellen Dunne was strangled by her ex-boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney at her California home. She was a promising horror actress — then she was brutally murdered in real life by her ex-boyfriend.
1 day ago · Dominique’s killer, John Sweeney, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and misdemeanor assault, not the first-degree murder the prosecution initially sought.
Aug 25, 2021 · John Thomas Sweeney was charged with Dominique Dunne's murder, and the case went to trial in August 1983.
Dec 3, 1986 · Convicted of voluntary manslaughter after a highly publicized trial in 1983, John Sweeney spent 3 years, 7 months and 27 days in custody, most of it as a clerk at the medium-security state...
In the newest episode of 'TMZ Investigates,' jurors in the case of John Thomas Sweeney — who strangled star Dominique Dunne to death but served just three and a half years in prison — were ...
May 9, 2024 · Johnston gently informed my mother that her daughter had been strangled by a man named John Sweeney. At this moment Dominique Dunne was still alive, though she had been placed on life...
Nov 13, 1983 · John Sweeney was sentenced Thursday to the maximum term of six and a half years in prison for strangling the actress Dominique Dunne. The judge said the defendant should have been convicted...
It is always the murder victim who is placed on trial. John Sweeney, who claimed to love Dominique, and whose defense was that this was a crime of passion, slandered her in court as...
2 days ago · The death of Dominique, a rising star through her role in that year’s hit movie “Poltergeist,” and the trial of her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney are the subject of the book’s devastating ...
