True Crime: The Death of Sal Mineo Rebel Without a Cause Star & Never Seen Photos of Natalie Wood

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Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor, singer, and director. He is best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the fifth-youngest nominee in the category.

Mineo also starred in films such as Crime in the Streets, Giant (both 1956), Exodus (1960), for which he won a Golden Globe and received a second Academy Award nomination, The Longest Day (1962), John Ford’s final western Cheyenne Autumn, and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).

On the night of February 12, 1976, the actor returned home following a rehearsal for the play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. After parking his car in the carport below his West Hollywood apartment, the 37-year-old was stabbed in the heart by a mugger who fled the scene. Police pursued leads but assumed the crime to be the result of some sort of "homosexual motivation". Following the police investigation into the crime, a young African-American pizza delivery man with a long criminal record was arrested, named Lionel Ray Williams. Williams was tried and sentenced in March 1979 to 57 years in prison for both killing Mineo and committing ten robberies in the same area. Although considerable confusion existed as to what witnesses had seen in the darkness the night Mineo was murdered, Williams claimed to have had no idea who Mineo was. Corrections officers later said they had overheard Williams admitting to the stabbing.[36] Williams' wife later confirmed that on the night Mineo died, he had come home with blood on his shirt.

Mineo was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

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