30 Celebrity Death Theories That Will Shock You
These celebrities will never rest in peace as long as these conspiracy theories continue to circle. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most famous conspiracy theories regarding a celebrity’s passing - or supposed passing.
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00:00You know Bruce Lee's not really dead, don't you?
00:02Yeah, it's in a book.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down
00:07our picks for the most famous conspiracy theories regarding a celebrity's passing,
00:11or supposed passing.
00:13And his DNA matches both sides of the Elvis family tree.
00:19Number 30.
00:20Juice WRLD.
00:21This morning, so many questions as to how a seemingly healthy 21-year-old
00:26could die so unexpectedly.
00:28A leading figure in both emo and SoundCloud rap,
00:32Juice WRLD passed away from a substance overdose on December 8th, 2019.
00:37Many young fans couldn't process the shocking news, and as a result,
00:41many conspiracy theories began appearing on TikTok and various social media sites.
00:46They point to various lyrics in his songs, including
00:49"'We Ain't Making It Past 21' and "'Really Feel Like John Lennon.'"
00:54Juice WRLD died at 21 on December 8th, the same date John Lennon died 39 years earlier.
01:00And back in 2017, the rapper posted a tweet that read, quote,
01:05"'My goal is to get overly famous, shine for a couple of years, then fake my death.'"
01:10This tweet gave false hope to millions of fans.
01:13And at this point, we have no idea of exactly what killed Juice WRLD.
01:16Autopsy results are still pending.
01:18Number 29.
01:20Jeffrey Epstein.
01:21I really wanted him to take up for what he did and to be put in jail or prison.
01:27Some people become posthumous celebrities, and Jeffrey Epstein is certainly one of them.
01:32The controversial financier made headlines in the early 2000s,
01:36but he became a household name in 2019 following his suspicious demise in prison.
01:41Epstein was imprisoned on charges of sex trafficking,
01:45and supposedly took his own life on August 10th.
01:48However, many elements of his death didn't add up,
01:50with Attorney General William Barr calling it, quote,
01:53a perfect storm of screw-ups.
01:56Some say screw-ups, others say curious coincidences.
02:00To this day, many believe that Epstein was murdered and his death covered up,
02:04supposedly because he had compromising information on many rich and powerful figures.
02:09The case has threatened to implicate prominent names from the worlds of business and politics.
02:14Number 28.
02:16Brian Jones.
02:17It's 50 years since the rock music legend Brian Jones died.
02:21This musician from Gloucestershire, England,
02:24created and named a little band called The Rolling Stones. You may have heard of them.
02:28Jones initially played a number of instruments in the world-famous band,
02:32but he developed issues related to drugs and alcohol and was eventually fired in 1969.
02:38Very soon after, Jones died in his swimming pool,
02:41with the coroner stating that both his liver and heart were in terrible condition.
02:46The report attributed his death to, quote,
02:49misadventure. However, many people, including Jones' own children,
02:53believe that he was murdered, specifically by a contractor named Frank Thurgood,
02:58who allegedly killed Jones over some money that he felt he was owed.
03:02One of the early appearances of the Stones back in the 60s,
03:06when life perhaps seemed a lot more simple to the poor chap,
03:08and obviously his end maybe summed up a lot of the excesses and the problems that fame brings.
03:13Number 27.
03:14Robert Johnson.
03:16Described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the first ever rock star,
03:26Robert Johnson is a blues musician who influenced the likes of Bob Dylan,
03:30Eric Clapton, and Robert Plant. However, he didn't have much success in his lifetime,
03:35and died in 1938 of unknown causes.
03:39His death was poorly investigated at the time,
03:42but modern researchers believe that he passed from complications of congenital syphilis.
03:47However, there is a prevailing urban legend that Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband.
03:52The tale goes that Johnson was flirting with the man's wife at a country dance,
03:56prompting him to poison Johnson's bottle of liquor.
03:59It's certainly a good story, but a mere story it may be.
04:09Number 26.
04:10Johnny Stompanato.
04:11You want me to kill him?
04:13No. With Cohen dead, his empire would only attract others of his kind.
04:19A famous gangster, Johnny Stompanato served as the main enforcer of L.A. crime boss Mickey Cohen.
04:25He found further infamy dating Lana Turner, an icon of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
04:30Stompanato was famously abusive towards Turner, and on April 4, 1958,
04:36he was in the midst of attacking her when he was stabbed by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane.
04:40Crane was not charged, as the homicide was deemed justifiable.
04:44To this day, some believe that it was Turner herself who killed Stompanato,
04:48but that Crane took the blame, either to save her mother's career or protect her from the law.
04:54Despite the theory prevailing through the decades,
04:56Crane has continuously and vehemently denied it.
04:59Johnny went to live on a big farm where he's got lots of room to run and play
05:03with all the other Chicago gangsters.
05:05No. 25.
05:06Jimi Hendrix.
05:07The Jimi Hendrix experience is over.
05:10The acid rock musician died today in a London hospital, apparently from an overdose of drugs.
05:15One of the many celebrities who have died at the age of 27,
05:19Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970.
05:23He was found unresponsive by his girlfriend, Monica Dannemann, in her London apartment,
05:28with the coroner reporting that he had asphyxiated on his own vomit.
05:32This finding was seemingly validated by Dannemann,
05:35who claims that Hendrix took nine prescription sleeping pills before dying.
05:39However, people have noticed a number of inconsistencies related to his death
05:43and Dannemann's conflicting statements.
05:45For example, she claims that she rode in the ambulance with Hendrix
05:48while the paramedics have consistently denied this.
05:51People don't know exactly what happened,
05:53but they aren't buying the official OD'd-in-his-sleep explanation.
05:57He should have been a millionaire.
05:59It's not known whether he saved his money,
06:01but it is known that today, Jimi Hendrix is dead.
06:04Number 24.
06:06Brittany Murphy.
06:07She was an actress with big potential.
06:09Then, Brittany Murphy died young.
06:11When young people die of natural causes, many questions are often raised.
06:16That's certainly the case with Brittany Murphy,
06:18who passed on December 20, 2009, at just 32.
06:22The actress and singer was found collapsed in her bathroom
06:25and rushed to Cedars-Sinai, where she went into cardiac arrest and died.
06:30The coroner's office ruled that her death was caused by pneumonia,
06:33exacerbated by anemia, and prescription drug intake.
06:37Some people weren't buying it, and just five months later,
06:40Murphy's husband Simon Monjack was also found dead in the home,
06:44also of anemia and pneumonia.
06:46People blame toxic mold as the culprit.
06:49Others aren't so sure.
06:51Murphy's father even alleges that his daughter was deliberately poisoned,
06:54citing an alleged toxicology report that was not made public.
06:58Do you believe your daughter was murdered?
07:01I absolutely do.
07:03Number 23.
07:04Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
07:06Mozart, forgive your assassin.
07:11I confess, I killed you.
07:14The thing with many old deaths is that the medical knowledge was relatively primitive,
07:18and fetal illnesses were much more common, even among the young.
07:22As such, no one really knows why Mozart suddenly took ill and died at just 35.
07:28Dozens, if not hundreds of explanations have been put forth,
07:31each one as opaque and shoulder-shrugging as the last.
07:35Naturally, some people don't buy the traditional narrative
07:38and believe that the composer was secretly murdered.
07:41Perhaps the most famous culprit is Antonio Salieri,
07:44who was so widely blamed for Mozart's death that it severely affected his mental health.
07:50This theory is bolstered by the 1830 play Mozart and Salieri,
07:54in which the latter murders Mozart out of jealousy,
07:57which also inspired Peter Schaeffer's Amadeus.
08:00The man you accuse yourself of killing.
08:07You've heard that?
08:09Is it true?
08:10Number 22.
08:12Bob Crane.
08:13Ten years ago, when he was slain, Bob Crane was a popular Hollywood television star.
08:17Today, his murder is still unsolved and is one of Hollywood's major mysteries.
08:22Known for playing the titular Robert Hogan on Hogan's Heroes,
08:25actor Bob Crane was bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale apartment on June 29, 1978.
08:31Suspicion immediately fell on Crane's friend, John Henry Carpenter,
08:35as blood was found in his rental car after visiting Crane.
08:38Carpenter was arrested but ultimately acquitted due to a lack of strong evidence.
08:42DNA tests were inconclusive,
08:44and Carpenter maintained his innocence until he died in 1998.
08:48Crane's son Robert has insinuated that Crane's widow, Patty Olsen, may be involved,
08:54as she was the only one who benefited from his will.
08:57Authorities deny this.
08:58If not Carpenter, and if not Olsen, then who?
09:02Is it a stress to say this may be like the most infamous unsolved murder
09:06in the valley in the last like, you know, 40 or 50 years?
09:08Number 21.
09:10Bruce Lee.
09:10On tonight's mystery, Bruce Lee's surviving brother has questions about what really happened.
09:16An enormous influence in both martial arts and Hong Kong cinema,
09:20Bruce Lee tragically died July 20, 1973 at just 32,
09:25a curiously young age for someone of such health and athleticism.
09:29Naturally, this has led to numerous conspiracy theories.
09:32The official story is that Lee died of a cerebral edema,
09:35which was possibly exacerbated by painkillers,
09:38heatstroke,
09:39or hyponatremia,
09:41a condition that describes low sodium levels in the blood.
09:45Others believe that he succumbed to a curse that was put on the Lee family,
09:48or that he was murdered by the Triads after he failed to pay protection money.
09:52Some don't even believe that he died.
09:54According to them, he faked his death to work undercover for the Hong Kong police.
09:59Yeah, I reckon that's true.
10:01Yeah, I reckon that's true,
10:01because if you were going to send someone undercover to investigate the Triads,
10:04you'd probably want the world's most famous Chinese film star.
10:08Number 20.
10:09John Lennon
10:10The world stopped and grieved on the night of December 8, 1980,
10:15when it learned that John Lennon had died.
10:17Lennon was shot and killed at about 11 o'clock last night outside his apartment building.
10:22After returning home following a recording session,
10:25Lennon was infamously shot in the back by Mark David Chapman.
10:30It's a pretty clear-cut and readily accepted story.
10:33Regardless, it has resulted in a few conspiracy theories.
10:37Some believe that Chapman was a patsy, used and brainwashed by the CIA,
10:42which wished to assassinate Lennon due to his outspoken left-wing ideals.
10:47Chapman started talking about a little person inside of him and a big person inside of him.
10:54The big person has been winning the battle up to now, but tonight the little person won.
10:58Others think Chapman is totally innocent, including author Salvador Estruchia,
11:04who argues that forensic evidence absolves Chapman of the crime.
11:08In any case, Lennon won't be the only Beatle on this list.
11:12The statements he made, the music he made, you know, it's going around the world.
11:16Number 19.
11:17Sam Cooke
11:19Often called the King of Soul, Sam Cooke was popular in the late 50s and early 60s.
11:24But on December 11, 1964, Cooke was shot and killed by a motel manager.
11:30Sam Cooke, one of the most talented singers and music producers of his generation,
11:36is shot in a shabby motel.
11:38Allegedly, Cooke took a woman named Elisa Boyer to the motel and assaulted her.
11:43She then escaped, and Cooke violently confronted the motel manager, who shot Cooke in self-defense.
11:49Cooke's family and friends reject this version of events, however,
11:53and have put forth various theories.
11:55He was not a violent guy. He never, I never saw him get angry.
12:00Some believe that Cooke was violently attacked by several people,
12:03with singer Etta James stating that his body had suffered horrific, unexplained injuries.
12:09Others claimed that Cooke's manager, Alan Klein, might have even had him killed.
12:14So far, neither of these theories have been corroborated.
12:18This was really troubling to the Black community.
12:21Did he really make a silly mistake, wrong place, the wrong time, in a seedy motel?
12:27Was he set up? I don't know.
12:30Number 18. Bobby Fuller.
12:32This rock singer found top ten success with a cover of The Crickets' I Fought The Law.
12:37The single was released in late 1965.
12:40They were four country boys from El Paso, but everyone knew it was Bobby's band. He was the star.
12:47On the following July 18th, Fuller was found dead inside a parked car,
12:52and the medical examiner tentatively blamed gasoline vapors for his death.
12:57Fuller's death is officially labeled a fatal accident.
13:03However, various far-reaching conspiracy theories have been put forward
13:07by people who don't buy it.
13:09Fuller's bandmate, Jim Reese, believed that Charles Manson had something to do with it,
13:14despite being in prison at the time.
13:16And others suspect that Fuller was killed due to personal connections with the mafia.
13:21It's likely that we'll never know.
13:23We want to know who did it and why.
13:26Number 17. Avril Lavigne.
13:28Let's just clarify that Avril Lavigne is not dead.
13:32The 2000s pop icon is alive and thriving, but not according to some.
13:37A few fans are adamant that the Avril Lavigne we see today is actually a woman named Melissa Vandella.
13:43The conspiracy goes like this, that Avril died and was replaced by an Avril lookalike.
13:50According to the conspiracy, the real Lavigne passed away after the release of her debut album
13:56Let Go. But the record company didn't want to stop the gravy train,
14:00so she was replaced with a body double to fool the public and continue her musical legacy.
14:05The main evidence surrounding the conspiracy is Lavigne's changing physical appearance,
14:10supposed subliminal messages in later songs,
14:13and the word Melissa written on her hand in a photo shoot.
14:17As expected, Lavigne has continuously denied the conspiracy.
14:21Yeah, some people think that I'm not the real me, which is so weird.
14:24Like, why would they even think that?
14:26Number 16. Tupac Shakur.
14:29On September 7th, 1996, hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur was shot in a Las Vegas drive-by.
14:36He died six days later.
14:38Unrolled the window, arm came out, opened fire, and just went rat-a-tat-tat.
14:42Two Crips gang members were named in an affidavit,
14:45including Dwayne Davis, who later said that his nephew Orlando Anderson was the shooter.
14:51However, countless conspiracy theories exist in regards to Tupac's death and even survival.
14:57Some believe that the shooting was ordered by either
14:59music executive Suge Knight or the notorious B.I.G.
15:03Things eventually went south in the middle of the decade when the two
15:06rappers got embroiled in an epic East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry.
15:10Others believe that Tupac is actually alive and faked his death and moved to Cuba.
15:15And, as is often the case with conspiracy theories, some believe that the CIA is involved.
15:20Ultimately, Davis was arrested and indicted for Shakur's murder in 2023,
15:26as he's the only person who was in the car used in the drive-by that hasn't passed away.
15:31There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that
15:34Suge Knight knew immediately who was behind the murder of Tupac Shakur.
15:38Steve Jobs
15:40The famous co-founder and CEO of Apple passed away on October 5, 2011, from pancreatic cancer.
15:47He was only 56 years old.
15:48This is a man who really stood for American exceptionalism,
15:52was the man who created the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, all of that.
15:57Nearly eight years after his death, a photo began spreading around the internet that had
16:02everyone convinced of his continued survival.
16:04The photo shows a balding, gray-haired man sitting in a plastic chair outside,
16:09and the man admittedly bears a striking resemblance to the late Jobs.
16:14The sneaky photo was reportedly taken in Egypt, leading many to believe,
16:18whether seriously or not, that Jobs is alive and well.
16:22Unfortunately, this is simply a case of one man looking a lot like another.
16:32Number 14.
16:33Michael Jackson
16:34The world lost music's biggest icon on June 25, 2009,
16:39when the king of pop died of cardiac arrest in his LA mansion.
16:45His personal physician, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter,
16:55as he had incorrectly administered various drugs to help Jackson sleep.
16:59Murray spent two years in prison, but many people, including Jackson's own daughter,
17:05believe that there's more to the story.
17:07Paris Jackson claims that her father's death was, quote,
17:10a set-up orchestrated by people, quote,
17:13out to get him.
17:18However, she's declined to explain who the people are.
17:21Jackson's old advisor, Leonard Rowe, told Radar Online that Jackson was
17:26assassinated for his music catalog, worth approximately $1 billion.
17:31Number 13.
17:32Paul McCartney
17:33Sir Paul McCartney is one of the two surviving members of the Beatles,
17:37but according to one prominent urban legend that sprung up in the 1960s,
17:42McCartney actually died long before his late bandmates.
17:45So this started some rumor that because he was barefooted, he's dead.
17:50Proponents claimed that McCartney perished in a car crash
17:54shortly after the album release of Revolver.
17:56Not wanting to upset the public, McCartney was quickly replaced with a lookalike.
18:01Fans scouring the Beatles' work have also found
18:04so-called subliminal messages in their songs and album covers.
18:08The myth suggests the Beatles planted clues to Paul's death in their songs
18:12and album art to break the news gently.
18:14The Beatles' press office was quite vocal in its defense,
18:18calling the legend, quote,
18:19a load of old rubbish and referring to its believers as, quote,
18:23nuts.
18:24The rumor was put to bed after a very much alive McCartney was featured in Life magazine
18:29in November 1969.
18:31It was a little bit strange because people did start looking at me like...
18:35Yeah.
18:37Number 12.
18:38Bob Marley
18:39Singer Bob Marley, his reggae music known far beyond its roots in Jamaica,
18:44died in a Miami hospital today.
18:46The death of this reggae legend was hard to accept.
18:48In July 1977, Marley was diagnosed with an aggressive skin cancer under his toenail,
18:54which within three years, spread to the rest of his body,
18:58leading to his death at just 36.
19:00Fans could not accept the explanation,
19:03and the conspiracy led to where they seemingly always lead, the CIA.
19:07The prevailing view remains that Marley favors manly,
19:11making the singer public enemy number one to the conservative right,
19:15which includes the USA and the CIA.
19:18The story goes that a CIA agent named Bill Oxley
19:21infected Marley with cancer through a pair of Converse sneakers.
19:25He reportedly did so because the CIA didn't want Marley starting a revolution.
19:30Despite the story not making a ton of sense, it nevertheless received traction,
19:34and in 2018, was shared by the likes of T.I. and Busta Rhymes.
19:39The CIA is never implicated in the assassination attempt,
19:42nor connected with any plot to cause the cancer that kills him.
19:46Number 11.
19:47Andy Kaufman
19:48Almost 30 years after his death, a brand new Andy is alive rumor is raging through the internet.
19:54In life, this quirky comedian often enjoyed pulling fast ones on, well, everybody.
19:59So when Andy Kaufman permanently disappeared in 1984, supposedly due to lung cancer,
20:05the world refused to believe the official account of his death.
20:08Andy's last girlfriend and his own brother seemed to have conflicting stories.
20:12But whatever you believe about Kaufman's death,
20:15no one can deny that a decades-long hoax would have been so Andy.
20:20He allegedly even said that if he were to fake his death, he would return 20 years later,
20:33which would have been in 2004.
20:35Who knows, maybe he's just enjoying some R&R in Albuquerque.
20:39There are also fans who say if he's living in Albuquerque, he should be left alone.
20:44Number 10.
20:45JonBenet Ramsey
20:46What happened to this American child beauty queen shocked the nation in 1996,
20:51and continues to fuel debate and conspiracy.
21:00The case remains unsolved, which certainly does not help.
21:03And while some conspiracies are more grounded and based in reality,
21:07others are a little more out there, and let's face it, a little disrespectful.
21:11One theory claims that Ramsey didn't actually die and grew up to become Katy Perry.
21:16An unseen man named Dave Johnson makes a string of claims linking the pop star with JonBenet.
21:23This theory was given further prominence in 2017,
21:26when Billy Eichner confronted Perry about it at the VMAs for a Billy on the Street segment.
21:31It's a bizarre theory, and a quick Google search shows that the timelines don't even add up,
21:36as Perry was twice Ramsey's age at the time of her death.
21:39Blink twice if you're really JonBenet Ramsey.
21:42Wait, no, that's not real.
21:44Number 9.
21:45Jimmy Hoffa
21:46If it came a question of power as against money, certainly I would select power.
21:51While the average person may not know what this man actually did for a living,
21:55many have thought his body was buried under Giants Stadium.
21:58As the leader of the Teamsters union, Jimmy Hoffa was known to anger a few people.
22:03And according to legend, the mob took care of the problem.
22:07Who exactly?
22:08Well, it's become quite popular to claim responsibility for the hit.
22:11Following a tip from a dying man, police are looking at this property in Roseville,
22:15Michigan, at the driveway to be specific,
22:18under which may lie the solution to a 37-year-old national mystery.
22:22It's an awfully trendy deathbed confession among mobsters.
22:26And if you believe notorious hitman Richard Kuklinski,
22:29he's the man responsible for Hoffa's earthly departure.
22:32Can we just all agree that Jimmy Hoffa could only have been killed once?
22:36All trace of Hoffa's gun.
22:38His jewelry is dust.
22:40Number 8.
22:41Jim Morrison
22:49If you were around in the late 60s and had the opportunity to hang with the lead singer of The
22:53Doors, he probably seemed more like a regular dude than somewhat of a mythical unicorn figure.
23:04But a shady death always leads to conspiracy theories,
23:07especially when the person in question supposedly died in a Parisian bathtub.
23:11Although the cause of death was stated as heart failure, no autopsy was ever performed,
23:16causing some to think that Jim faked his own death,
23:19and others to claim that he overdosed in the bathroom of a nightclub.
23:22Well, the 70s were definitely a bit hazy for some,
23:25and conspiracy theorists continue to search for clarity.
23:33Number 7.
23:34George Reeves
23:38Here's what we know for sure.
23:42TV's Superman died from a gunshot to the head in June 1959,
23:47which ended his reign as the Man of Steel.
23:50But from there, things get extremely blurry,
23:53in part thanks to the extreme inebriation of the guests at his house that night.
24:00While they claimed to have heard one gunshot, three bullets had been fired from the gun.
24:05Police believed he took his own life, but some have theorized that MGM Vice President
24:10Eddie Mannix or his wife Tony Mannix were involved, since Reeves and Tony had had an affair.
24:15Remember, George Reeves had pretty much an open house.
24:20There were a lot of people in there all the time, and friends of friends.
24:24Others suggest that Reeves' fiancé, Leonor Lemon,
24:27shot him accidentally. In the end, of course, it is all speculation.
24:32That's the $64,000 question. Who knows who pressured who to do what to cover this up?
24:38Number 6.
24:39Princess Diana
24:41A French minister is being quoted this by the Reuters news agency now,
24:45that Diana, Princess of Wales, has died in this accident.
24:50Months before the Princess of Wales was killed in a 1997 car crash along with boyfriend Dodi Fayed,
24:55she allegedly wrote a telling letter, worried that someone might tamper with her brakes.
25:00Well, we all know what happened, as Princess Diana's death inadvertently ushered in the age
25:05of internet speculation. One theory, according to claims by Dodi's father, Mohamed El Fayed,
25:11is that the MI6 and CIA were involved, with the potential motive for murder being that Diana may
25:16have been pregnant with Dodi's child, and that the two were going to get engaged.
25:21She was saying to the world, yes, I found someone, I'm very happy with them.
25:24But that was, that's a completely different stage from we're going to get engaged,
25:29we're going to be married.
25:30The paparazzi photographer who was following Diana before her death,
25:34James Anvalson, took his own life shortly after conspiracy theories arose,
25:38just one of many oddities about a seemingly straightforward matter.
25:43The only problem with Mohamed Fayed's theory of the royal family and MI6 being behind the
25:48murder of Princess Diana is that it doesn't have a shred of credible evidence to support it.
25:53Number 5.
25:54Kurt Cobain
25:56As the lead singer of Nirvana and husband to Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain earned plenty of
26:08headlines in the early 90s — and deservedly so. But it was Cobain's 1994 death that sparked
26:14a larger discussion about his personal life.
26:16It was a totally empty room, no furniture,
26:19just Kurt's body lying on the floor. There was a shotgun lying on his chest.
26:24At the time, his decision to take his own life wasn't a complete shock,
26:28at least considering the media portrayal of Cobain. But as new details emerge,
26:32theories continue to arise in search of the truth.
26:35But the world just took Courtney's word for it.
26:38For example, take the 2015 documentary Soaked in Bleach,
26:41which focused primarily on the details of his death. Did someone assist in Cobain's death?
26:46And was it possible for Kurt to even pull the trigger, given his physical state at the time?
26:51We may never know.
26:53I cannot think of a case in which I have had someone
26:57inject himself with a large amount of heroin and then proceed to kill himself.
27:03It just doesn't make sense.
27:054. Natalie Wood
27:07People sometimes go very big, but that's abnormal.
27:10From child stardom to massive success as an adult, this late icon never failed to impress.
27:16But with fame comes insecurities, and Natalie Wood had a lifelong fear of drowning,
27:21which makes her 1981 death even more suspicious.
27:25Natalie hated the water, hated it, had a great fear of it,
27:30didn't go into her own swimming pool at home.
27:32After a night out with husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken,
27:36the actress inexplicably wound up in the waters off Santa Catalina Island,
27:41dead at the age of 43. With reportedly plenty of drinking and arguing going on that night,
27:46one could be led to believe that Natalie fell off the boat. But many think her husband may
27:51have forcibly removed her from this situation.
27:54The tension was building throughout the whole weekend
27:56of Robert Wagner being jealous of Christopher Walken.
27:59The captain seems to know what happened,
28:01but it's likely only Wagner and Walken know the truth. Well, allegedly, that is.
28:06It's very difficult for all of us. And, you know, every day is a little better.
28:15Sometimes you go forward and sometimes you slip back.
28:183. Elvis Presley
28:20We can't go on together, we're suspicious minds.
28:26In August 1977, the king of rock and roll was found dead in his bathroom.
28:31Today, he continues to live on through his music, although some take this more literally.
28:35In fact, some theorize that he faked his death and that he's actually still alive,
28:40as over the years, there have been countless claimed Elvis sightings.
28:44Is Elvis Presley alive?
28:46Absolutely. I would testify it in a court of law.
28:49A few people even claim he was an alien and just went home.
28:52We may never actually know what went down at Graceland,
28:55but Elvis did have a few health issues, most notably an enlarged heart.
29:00And, as you can imagine, prescription drug abuse likely didn't help the old ticker.
29:04Even so, the king lives on through conspiracy theories,
29:07and all those special people who understand what's really going on.
29:11Elvis, I want to thank you very much for being with us.
29:14We noticed that you settled in Bismarck, North Dakota. Could you tell us, Elvis,
29:19what's the biggest difference between Bismarck and Memphis?
29:23Probably the biggest difference, man. I never died in Bismarck.
29:27Number 2. Marilyn Monroe.
29:41Just a few months after her famous birthday salute to JFK,
29:44an American icon consumed a lethal amount of barbiturates and called it quits.
29:49At least, that's one possibility.
29:51On the surface, it seems that Marilyn Monroe was severely depressed and took her own life.
29:56She was a victim of a homicide. She was murdered.
30:00However, some think her overdose was accidental.
30:03While others believe she may have actually been murdered that evening in Brentwood,
30:06due to the fact that she ran with an interesting crowd of politicians,
30:10mobsters, and some real powerful individuals.
30:13She was very nervous about her phone being bugged,
30:16and asked me if I knew anyone that could look at it.
30:19Was it Norma Jean herself, or someone with a motive and opportunity?
30:23Although no evidence of foul play was found in the investigation,
30:26the theories surrounding her death continue.
30:28What is the business of the CIA, which was involved, or the FBI, which was involved?
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30:49Number 1. John F. Kennedy
30:52Through the years, they never changed their story. Now all of a sudden,
30:54they're doing it because it's for the public record? I can't buy that.
30:58Well, here's what we do know. Marilyn Monroe did not kill JFK.
31:02And maybe, just maybe, neither did Lee Harvey Oswald.
31:06He's been shot. He's been shot. Lee Oswald has been shot.
31:11In 1963, the extremely public death of John F. Kennedy altered the course of history,
31:17and subsequently inspired decades upon decades of conspiracy theories.
31:21And then all of a sudden, the day turns to chaos. You know, it's unbelievable.
31:27But someone pulled the trigger on not only the gun, but also on a massive cover-up.
31:32Given all the documentaries and books written about the ordeal,
31:35one could go mad just thinking about all the possibilities.
31:38How many shots did you say you heard?
31:40Four to six.
31:42That's impossible. You heard echoes. Echoes.
31:48Was it the CIA? The Soviets? The New Orleans contingent?
31:51The list of possibilities is endless. But when you look at the facts,
31:55is it really possible that Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone gunman,
31:59executed the perfect crime? Or were there larger forces at work?
32:03There was no conspiracy at all. The conspiracy was in the mind of Lee Oswald.
32:17Do you have any alternative theories about these or other celebrity deaths?
32:22Let us know in the comments.
32:23You believe in your heart of hearts John Carpenter killed Bob Crane.
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