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We visit the final resting places of 50 celebrities who were tragically murdered — from John Lennon's memorial at Strawberry Fields to Sharon Tate's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, from President Kennedy's eternal flame at Arlington to Selena's resting place in Corpus Christi. This narrated tour covers murdered musicians like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Tupac Shakur, and the Notorious B.I.G.; assassinated leaders including Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Harvey Milk, Mahatma Gandhi, and Anwar Sadat; murdered actors like Phil Hartman, Sal Mineo, Dominique Dunne, and Haing S. Ngor; and infamous unsolved cases like the Black Dahlia, JonBenét Ramsey, and Bob Crane. We also pay our respects to Emmett Till, whose murder helped launch the civil rights movement, to Dimebag Darrell, gunned down on stage, to Gianni Versace, killed on the steps of his Miami mansion, and to many more whose lives were cut short by violence. Every story is told with respect, and every fact was personally researched and verified.
Sources used in the research for this documentary:
Find a Grave (findagrave.com) — burial locations, cemetery names, and memorial details for all 50 subjects.
Federal Bureau of Investigation — archived case files and public records related to the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and Malcolm X.
Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. W. W. Norton & Company, 1974.
Guralnick, Peter. Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Little, Brown and Company, 2005.
Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.
Orth, Maureen. Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History. Delacorte Press, 1999.