Murder Motive: Robbery?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — George Reeves
moondoggiedaddy2007 — 13 years ago(November 02, 2012 10:14 AM)
In the book
IT CAME FROM HORRORWOOD
(2004), authored by Tom Weaver and released by McFarland Press, pages 242-245, fellow actor Walter Reed (good friend of George Reeves) believed George was murdered. He stated that George had told him he had hidden $10,000 in his old house (the one initially purchased by Toni Mannix). If he told Reed, who else might he have told? George liked to drink a lot when he wasn't working, so he may have inadvertently/accidently told someone. The grapevine information would be disseminated fast! George Reeves was moving out of that house and into a new house he had purchased up in Benedict Canyon.
Walter Reed stated that rumors about George Reeves being broke at that time were false, because he had money and knew what he was doing financially. That new house he bought would be worth $3,000,000.00 at today's prices. So the question must be asked: Could George Reeves' death be result of a robbery?
Walter Reed stated that he told the police all of this information too. -
lkjandersen — 13 years ago(November 27, 2012 07:11 AM)
There was only one route from the bedroom and out the house and that would have gone through the living-room, where his girlfriend and guests were sitting at the time of the shot. If anyone sneaked in or out, they would have seen it. They would have had to run into anyone who had somehow sneaked into the room.
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moondoggiedaddy2007 — 13 years ago(November 28, 2012 08:51 AM)
However, I read that his fiancee, Leonore Lemmon, was considered a suspect in Reeves' murder. Shown on an investigative documentary before she died, she admitted to being the one who killed Reeves. Maybe her guests were also in on it too? They all supposedly waited
45 minutes
before calling the police. That's enough time to soak the murder gun in oil and remove the fingerprints, if anya glove would have prevented that evidence. Also, they all were extremely inebriated when the police tried to question them. That's a good excuse, and they could conveniently state they didn't remember anything. But the same story also supposedly came from Toni Mannix, Reeves' previous "girlfriend/Sugar Mommy". Mannix stated she "had 'the boy' killed." And her husband Ed Mannix s5b4upposedly had the "Hollywood muscle" to get that mission accomplished, as well as the power and political pull to control the media and thus prevent an in-depth homicide investigation. Mr. Mannix allegedly did the same type of shenanigans with a previous wife to avoid paying alimony, and he got away with that one too!
Besides, couldn't the murderer(s), if other than the people
already
in the house, have simply gone out through a second story side window, and hung out from the ledge, and simply dropped down to the ground? Depending on that person(s) size, he (probably) could have been up to six feet tall, which means that is six feet closer to the ground. -
lkjandersen — 13 years ago(November 28, 2012 10:16 AM)
They were drunk and in complete shock. Their friend just killed himself upstairs. I have no problem with them taking 45 minutes to collect themselves enough to think clearly.
As for any confessions, they usually come from rather dodgy sources. Anything that begins with "Towards the very end of their life"/"On their Deathbed" is usually not to be trusted, because that means that they aren't here to defend themselves against any accusation that follows. Especially Lemmon, who had Alcohol Dementia and Mannix, who had Alzheimers. I doubt they were in any condition to talk about anything that happened 30 years earlier, towards the end of their lives.
And guns are usually oiled and fingerprints are much more tricky than CSI would have you know, and more so in 1959.
And the murderer would also have to get in, in the rather narrow window between Reeves going down into the livingroom for a couple of drinks and returning to bed, and that would have to be through the window as well since, as I said, the road upstairs from the inside went through the occupied living room. And the theory hinges on this murderer being sure that Reeves would remain downstairs for a while, after having gotten out of bed, and not bringing his own gun, for some reason deciding to find and use Reeves own. Then hiding in the room and hoping that Lemmon didn't come in first, much less together with Reeves. -
winomaster — 9 years ago(April 12, 2016 07:09 PM)
People having a drinking session have someone get shot all the time. If you are dumb, you call the cops and someone goes to jail. If you have a good lawyer or manager, you say he must have shot himself and all keep their mouthes shut.