Sal Mineo was an actor, director, and singer who was murdered near his home in West Hollywood in 1976 at the young age of 37. Mineo was born in 1939 into a family of Italian immigrants living in the Bronx. His breakthrough role, which also garnered him an Academy Award nomination, came in 1955 when he played Plato Crawford in Rebel Without a Cause, opposite to James Dean. On February 12, 1976, Mineo was found with fatally stabbed in an alleyway by neighbors who had heard his cries for help. Detectives found money still left in Mineo’s jacket, hypothesizing that the evidence pointed to a personal motive rather than a random robbery. For years his murder remained a mystery, with some speculating that his homosexuality being the motive behind the crime.
First Documented
1980
Last Documented
1980
Cahuenga Boulevard and Lakeshore Road
Los Angeles (Hollywood), CA 90028
United States
Abstract
Date of Death – October 16, 1980 (just before midnight) Victor Clarke, age 30, a clerk in a Wilshire Boulevard office building, was found stabbed to death and lying on the ground next to his white Volkswagen station wagon. His car was found crashed into a curb at the address listed above.
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Citations
Murders – GLBT Related --1980 – 1989, ONE Subject File collection, Coll2012-001, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California
Geo
34.1297524, -118.3491104
geofield
POINT (-118.349037 34.129699)