Katherine Ramsland tours "America's Most Haunted" scenes where ghosts of past crimes still roam the earth. Spirits of the murdered and the murderers are often trapped in the circumstances of their death or of the crime they committed. Originally published as a sequel to the very popular first Halloween special called Haunted Crime Scenes, our second special tour has just been updated with the story of a famous serial killer's ghost which is haunting another killer.
Twentieth Century newspaper baron had a large party on his 280-foot yacht. Thomas Ince, a talented director and producer whose star was fading, was invited to discuss a merger with Hearst interests. Also invited was Hearsts mistress, the young actress, Marion Davies, and her rumored paramour, Charlie Chaplin.
Ince was carried off the boat and died two days later. Rumors abounded that Hearst had shot him, mistaking him for Charlie Chaplin, who was carrying on with Marion Davies and other very young women. The twisted tale of how a group of middle-class friends in Southern California fell under the spell of a charismatic and disturbed leader with the improbable name of a wild west outlaw.
The young men's actions would lead to the murder of a child, Nick Markowitz, leave a community reeling from grief and shock, and spawn a four-year international manhunt. Initially actor George Reeves' fatal gunshot wound was ruled a suicide. His very popular Superman series had been cancelled and he was naturally despondent, but forensic evidence suggests that it wasn't a suicide at all, but a very clever murder.
Waist-up, Holmes wasn't much to look at.
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