The cops reported it as a suicide, another musician who had washed out of the business and took his own life. Sad, but common stuff. The police had seen it all before.
There was a quick investigation, a report was filed, and the case was closed.
That was 1966. Was it really such a cut-and-dried situation? Why were there smears of blood around the victim’s mouth? Why was the body covered in bruises?
The man was known as an immaculate dresser. The clothes on the body were not only rumpled and messed up, but soaked with gasoline.
The car in which the body was found wasn’t there 30 minutes before it was discovered. And if death had come so recently, why was it already displaying signs of rigor mortis?
None of this made sense. The musician and his band had recently had a major hit record that reached the Top 10. He seemed to have been in good spirits. There was no suicide note. So how did he end up dead, parked in front of his apartment in his mother’s Oldsmobile?
This is Episode 74 of “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.” And this time, it’s the story of the mysterious death of Bobby Fuller.
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