SUCCESS & ACHIEVEMENT
LOSS & DEATH
Actress Barbara Colby was murdered in a Venice, CA parking lot after teaching an acting class (1975) in the Spring season of her life.
American rapper Biggie Smalls was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles (1996) in the Autumn season of his life.
Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short) was gruesomely murdered and dismembered (1947) in the Autumn season of her life.
Actor Bob Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale apartment (1978) in the Autumn season of his life.
Heroin addict & prostitute Catrine da Costa was brutally murdered and dismembered in Malmskillnadsgatan, Sweden (1986) in the Spring season of her life.
17-year-old Deanna Cremin was found outside of a senior housing complex after being strangled to death (1995) in the Winter season of her life.
American zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist Dian Fossey was murdered while working with gorillas in Rwanda (1985) in the Autumn season of her life.
BBC show presenter Jill Dando was fatally shot outside of her London home (1999) in the Autumn season of her life.
Eighteen-year-old Jill-Lyn Euto was stabbed to death with her own kitchen knives in her Syracuse apartment (2001) in the Winter season of her life.
Six-year-old pageant winner JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her Boulder, CO home(1996) in the Autumn season of her life.
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated while walking home from a movie theater with his wife (1986) in the Winter season of his life.
Mary Pinchot Meyer, mistress of President JFK, was shot in the heart and head at close range (1964) in the Autumn season of her life.
Sixteen-year-old Mary Jane Hanselman was brutally raped and murdered (1958) in the Autumn season of her life.
Archbishop Oscar Romero was killed by a sniper while delivering mass in a church in San Salvador, El Salvador (1980) in the Winter season of his life.
Nineteen-year-old Rashawn Brazell's dismembered body parts were found in trash bags across Brooklyn (2005) in the Winter season of her life.
Newspaper Chief Raymond Nels Nelson was killed with a large office typewriter (1981) in the Autumn season of his life.
17-year-old Irish girl Raonaid Murray was stabbed to death (1999) in the Winter season of her life.
Founder of the Los Angeles Crips Raymond Washington was murdered in a drive-by shooting (1979) in the Spring season of his life.
French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was beaten to death outside her holiday home in County Cork, Ireland (1996) in the Winter season of her life.
Popular Yale student Suzanne Jovin was stabbed 17 times in a posh Yale neighborhood (1998) in the Winter season of her life.
American rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada (1996) in the Winter season of his life.
22-year-old Penn State student Betsy Aardsma was killed with a single stabbing through the heart (1969) in the Autumn season of her life.
12-year-old Cheryl Lynne Harper was raped and strangled with her own blouse (1959) in the Winter season of her life.
Freelance artist, illustrator, and motivational speaker Gail DeLay was found dead in her Dallas apartment (2005) in the Spring season of her life.
Actor George Reeves died of a gunshot wound to the head (1959) in the Winter season of his life.
Actor Johnny Stompanato died of a knife wound (1958) in the Winter phase of his life.
Actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in bed with an empty bottle of sleeping pills nearby (1961) in the Autumn season of her life.
Actress Natalie Wood's dead body was found floating in a Catalina Island cove (1981) in the Autumn season of her life.
Waitress Nicole Brown Simpson was found brutally stabbed to death outside her LA apartment (1994) in the Spring season of her life.
Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was shot multiple times in her car in Beverly Hills leading to her death (2010) in the Autumn season of her life.
Actress Thelma Todd died from carbon monoxide poisoning while inside her car (1935) in the Autumn season of her life.