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Murder. On June 13, 2004, sometime around 11 a.m., Keven Lee Graff, a 27-year-old homeless man, broke into Lees' home. Graff attacked the 91-year-old Lees and decapitated him. Graff then left the home, carrying Lees's severed head, and broke into a neighboring house. The occupant of the home was a 69-year-old retired doctor, Morley Engleson.
Apr 5, 2008 · Relatives of the victims -- Dr. Morley Engelson and onetime blacklisted screenwriter Robert Lees -- wept as they recounted their memories of the two men and questioned how Graff could have...
- Ramon Novarro. After the death of Rudolph Valentino, Mexican-born Ramon Novarro was positioned as the silver screen’s new Latin lover. He achieved his greatest success during the 1920s and ’30s, managing to keep his homosexuality a secret as it would have undoubtedly affected his career.
- Margaret Campbell. In 1939, a predator stalked the Los Angeles City College (LACC) campus. He bludgeoned unsuspecting women, raped them, and left them for dead.
- Gig Young. In this case, the Hollywood figure was the perpetrator, not the victim. In 1978, award-winning actor Gig Young and his fifth wife, Kim Schmidt, were found dead in their home just a few weeks after they got married.
- Michael Nigg. At first glance, the tragic murder of Michael Nigg doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy. He was an aspiring actor with a few small roles who worked as a waiter until he got his big break.
Nov 29, 2022 · Horrifically so: Soaked in blood from gunshot wounds. Hanging from the rafters, a noose around their neck. Sprawled on a hardwood floor, their head bashed in and a (minuscule) hammer nearby. There’s even a baby in a crib, blood splattering the headboard and wall behind it.
The “godmother of forensic science” didn’t consider herself an artist. Instead, Frances Glessner Lee —the country’s first female police captain, an eccentric heiress, and the creator of ...
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are a series of eighteen intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), a pioneer in forensic science. [1] [2] Glessner Lee used her inheritance to establish a department of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1936, and donated the first of the ...
Oct 30, 2023 · As details of prosecutors' allegations emerged over the following days, the story suddenly flipped from a cautionary tale reflecting San Francisco's so-called doom loop to a sordid scandal that...
