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George Reeves Murder
The official ruling collapsed under its own evidentiary weight the moment investigators catalogued the scene. No fingerprints on the gun, no gunshot residue tested on the hands, a washed corpse before autopsy, unexplained bruises, two extra bullets in the floor, a spent casing found beneath the body, and zero suicide note — each anomaly alone would reopen most cases. The LAPD closed it anyway, and the ruling has never been overturned.
Evidence
- George Reeves died at 1579 Benedict Canyon Drive in the early hours of June 16, 1959.
- The physical evidence is the crux of every homicide argument.
- Researcher Sam Kashner, who co-authored the deep-dive biography Hollywood Kryptonite, pointed to Leonore Lemmon's erratic behavior that night and her reported prior statement — made before the shot — that Reeves was 'going upstairs to shoot himself,' which she later characterized as a joke.
- His girlfriend Leonore Lemmon and several guests were downstairs; witnesses gave conflicting accounts of who entered the bedroom first and whether the scene had been disturbed before police arrived — a discrepancy noted by investigators at the time and confirmed by the A&E retrospective (Sept 2026).
- Reeves's hands were never tested for gunpowder residue — the LACoroner.com case file (May 2026) notes this was 'never satisfactorily explained' rather than merely routine oversight.