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The Bobby Fuller Four first launched onto the charts in March of 1966 with their hit song, I Fought the Law. Written by Sonny Curtis and filled with up-tempo melodic harmonies, their rendition became an instant rock and roll classic. Bobby Fuller looked like a Kennedy and performed like Elvis. He began calling himself the Rock and Roll King of the Southwest.
According to El Paso Times reporter Edna Gunderson, when the Bobby Fuller Four appeared at Dick Clark's World Teenage Fair at the Palladium in Hollywood, mobs of screaming girls lunged at Bobby and Randy, ripping their clothes and hair. Admirers were so hysterical that Gunderson wrote, "...one persistent fan escaped with Bobby's watch and cufflinks."
The day Bobby was found dead marked just nine months since the band released their first 12-track studio album, KRLA, King of the Wheels. And just five months since their follow-up record, I Fought the Law. In other words, just as 23-year-old Bobby Fuller stood on the precipice of superstardom, he vanished, only to reappear again.
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In 1966, Bobby Fuller's mother Lorraine was staying with her sons at their apartment in Hollywood, 1776 Sycamore Avenue, number 317. Bobby and his younger brother Randy were both members of the up-and-coming band, the Bobby Fuller Four. Bobby was two years Randy's senior. In the band, Randy played bass and sang backup to Bobby's guitar and lead vocals.
The evening of July 17th was relatively uneventful. Randy had left to visit a friend. The brother's road manager and close friend Rick Stone was hanging out and drinking beers at the Fuller home with Lorraine and Bobby. At some point, Bobby called his girlfriend, Nancy Norton, a flight attendant who lived in New York City.
Over the course of the night, a handful of old friends from Texas stopped by the apartment to hang out. In conversation, Bobby mentioned how excited he was about the Corvette he planned to buy the next day. To those around him, he seemed in good spirits. Around 1 a.m., Lorraine decided to turn in for the night.
The place had cleared out. Rick was falling asleep on the couch with the television still on. Bobby was the only other person in the apartment. Lorraine found him in a corner, picking at his guitar and listening to records.
His favorite artists included Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. The plane crash killed Holly seven years earlier on February 3rd, 1959. In his song, American Pie, Don McLean famously referred to the accident as the day the music died. There was a time that Bobby only ever dreamed of having a career like his idol, Buddy Holly.
He was a Texas boy, just like Holly. The Bobby Fuller Force hit, I Fought the Law, was actually a cover. The original was performed by Holly's four-man band, The Crickets. Lorraine wished Bobby goodnight, knowing that his dreams were coming true. He really was just like Buddy Holly. After his mother fell asleep, Bobby allegedly took another phone call with a different girl, Melody.
Rick claims that he and Bobby had tried to buy LSD from Melody a few days earlier, but no transaction happened. Bobby was spooked when they arrived at her place and saw another car in addition to her blue 1964 Cadillac Eldorado in the driveway. Bobby said they'd try again another time. So around 1 a.m. on the morning Bobby disappeared, he told Rick that he was leaving to finally pick up the acid from Melody.
Around 2.30 a.m., Rick woke up to what he assumed was the sound of Bobby either leaving or entering the apartment. He didn't see Bobby himself, but he did see the front door open.
Rick didn't think much of the coming and going. According to him, the sun often came up before anyone in apartment 317 threw in the towel and caught a few winks. He assumed Bobby left to grab a midnight snack or nightcap somewhere close by. And he wasn't wrong. Bobby didn't go very far, at least not at first. He stopped downstairs to visit his building manager, Lloyd Essinger, whom Bobby considered a friend.
And according to Essinger, he and Bobby did share a few beers together around 3 a.m. Nobody knows where Bobby went or who he saw after he left his landlord's apartment. It appears that Lloyd Essinger is the last person who admits to seeing the young musician alive. When Lorraine Fuller woke up on the morning of July 18th, 1966...
She noticed that her family's blue Oldsmobile wasn't parked outside. Around 8:30 a.m., Rick Stone realized the same thing as he left to go to the studio. He assumed that he'd see Bobby there in an hour. They had a meeting that started at 9:30, but Bobby never showed. Five hours and a few burgers later, the band, its music technicians, and their label executives gave up any hope of their singer gracing them with an appearance.
When the clock ticked past 2:30 p.m., they left. Around 5:00 p.m., Lorraine went to check the mail. On her way down, she passed two of Bobby's musician friends, Ty Grimes and Mike Ciccarelli. Days earlier, they'd made plans to hang out with Bobby. Despite not seeing his car outside, they were on their way to ring his doorbell. But Lorraine barely noticed them, if she did at all, because as she made her way downstairs,
She saw what minutes earlier they hadn't. The blue Oldsmobile parked outside. She ran in the direction of the car. Bobby still sat in the driver's seat. When she opened the driver's side door, the smell of gasoline washed over her. According to Lorraine, Bobby still had one hand on the keys in the car's ignition. At first, she thought he might be sleeping. She yelled for him to wake up, but unfortunately,
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The frontman and star of the up-and-coming band, the Bobby Fuller Four, hadn't been seen in approximately 14 hours. It's impossible to imagine the heartbreak that Lorraine must have felt when she opened up the driver's side door. Bobby was her middle child and the second to be sent to an early grave. Five years earlier, her eldest, Jack, had been murdered in a robbery gone wrong.
After Lorraine, the next people to see Bobby's body were his friends, Ty Grimes and Mike Ciccarelli, who had passed Lorraine in the stairwell on their way up to apartment 317. After realizing that Bobby wasn't home, the two musicians turned around to go back to their car. They passed Bobby's mother again, but this time her face was pale and she was in a full sprint. They didn't know it at the time, but she was on her way to call the police.
When Grimes and Ciccarelli got outside, they saw the door to Bobby's old mobile open. Lorraine's emotions were immediately given context. Bobby sat in the front seat, unmistakably dead. Grimes claimed he saw blood on his friend's shirt. After dialing 911 and informing them of the horror downstairs, Lorraine called her only surviving son. According to Randy, the only words his mother choked out before hanging up were,
Bobby's dead. Randy rushed home. When he turned onto his street, he found a mob of police reporters and curious neighbors outside of 1776 Sycamore. He told El Paso Times reporter Edna Gunderson that as he made his way to his brother's car, a stranger in the crowd misinformed him that his road manager, Rick Stone, had been murdered. For a second, he thought he'd misheard his mother and his brother might be alive.
but he hadn't. In fact, shortly after the stranger spoke those words, Rick walked out of the Fuller's apartment. After leaving the studio earlier in the afternoon, Jim Reese, the lead guitarist for the Bobby Fuller Four, took Rick to pick up his Volkswagen from an auto body shop. According to Rick, an unpleasant gut feeling bubbled up as he inched closer to Sycamore Street.
The band's road manager had to elbow his way through the crowd. He recalled the police treating him as if he were a member of the paparazzi and not one of Bobby's best friends. But eventually, Rick got close enough to see Bobby for himself. Rick saw the singer holding a hose in one hand that connected to a gas can. Bobby's hair looked slick and oily, as if someone had poured gasoline over him.
He thought his body appeared bruised as if he'd been beaten and burned in places as if he'd been set on fire. The slippers on his feet were worn down like he'd been trudging through gravel or had been dragged. His pinky finger appeared broken.
Randy and Rick stood outside until officials carried Bobby's body away. On July 20th, two days after Bobby's death, a funeral was held at the Church of the Hills in Los Angeles. Afterward, Bobby's family buried him in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood. Rick Stone claimed that both ceremonies were a veritable who's who of Hollywood.
Among the mourners were record producer Phil Spector, R&B singer Barry White, music executive Bob Keene, and hundreds of fans. His headstone simply read, Beloved Son. Papers jumped on the story of another burgeoning rock star gone too soon. A cause of death hadn't been announced, but some reporters speculated Bobby may have died by suicide.
On July 25th, head toxicologist at the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office, Edward Thompson, submitted a report of chemical analysis. He tested Bobby's blood for a number of drugs, but found nothing. Oddly enough, despite reports that Bobby had been drinking the night before, Thompson also found no trace of alcohol in the Singer system. Randy later co-wrote a book about his brother titled, I Fought the Law.
In it, he notes that Thompson never tested Bobby's blood for LSD, which Bobby had supposedly gone to pick up that night. Dr. Jerry Nelson conducted Bobby's autopsy. Though the procedure happened shortly after Bobby's death, the report wasn't made public until October 18th, three months to the day since Lorraine had found her son dead.
The medical examiner noted peeling and blistering on the skin of Bobby's face, neck, chest, back, arms, and legs. Upon opening the body, apparently the organs and incised tissue emitted a pungent aroma of gasoline. But Nelson said the contents of his stomach were unremarkable, which likely meant he found no trace of gas inside.
Other reported observations included an abnormal buildup of fluid in his lungs. The examiner listed the cause of death as asphyxia or suffocation. Bobby's bladder was also unusually swollen, which implied that he may have been in a state of unconsciousness well before his actual time of death. Nelson marked two question marks next to the words accident and suicide.
Nelson may not have been sure about the cause of Bobby's death, but the Los Angeles Police Department seemingly had already made up their mind that it was suicide. They never impounded Bobby's Oldsmobile or even dusted for fingerprints after officials took his body away, possibly because to them, Bobby Fuller was just another dead celebrity.
From 1960 to July 1966, the list of celebrity suicides and overdoses in America included actors Margaret Sullivan, Diana Barrymore, Marie MacDonald, and Marilyn Monroe, authors Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath, and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, among many others. Three years before Bobby died, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Two days after his death,
Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot by club owner Jack Ruby,
Many of those names are wrapped up in their own mysteries, conspiracy theories, and alleged cover-ups. But the point is that culturally, the idea that fame and fortune came at a price permeated public consciousness in an incredibly volatile and palpable way. And in many ways, it still does. One persistent rumor claimed that Bobby had insisted on playing his band's song...
Another sad and lonely night, ad nauseum in the weeks leading up to his death. In the final verse into the chorus, Bobby sings about sad and lonely nights without his baby. Bobby's former bandmates have since dispelled the bit of gossip, claiming it was the romanticized daydreams of overly maudlin fans. As it turns out, there may be a kernel of truth behind its words.
because shortly before Bobby's death, he received a letter from an old love interest. His ex confessed that she still loved Bobby and that she wanted their family to be together. Her, Bobby, and their baby daughter. Welcome to Naughty Yacht.
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In 1963, Bobby met a young woman who for privacy is simply referred to as "Susie" in the book "I Fought the Law" by Randy Fuller and Miriam Linna. Bobby and Susie's relationship blossomed over bowling, concerts, and home-cooked meals in El Paso, Texas. In early summer 1964, the couple rented a motel room for the night. After arriving, Susie informed the musician that she was pregnant with his child.
But she didn't receive the reaction she'd hoped for. Bobby panicked. Fifteen minutes after arriving at the motel, he jumped into his car and abandoned Susie with only her tears to keep her company. A child stood in the way of his chances at stardom, and so did a bride. Later, Bobby suggested he drive Susie to Juarez, Mexico to have a discreet abortion. But Susie wanted a ring on her finger and a father for her child.
Ultimately, the couple decided that Susie would marry one of Bobby's friends, an Air Force veteran and salesman named Bruce. Bruce agreed to claim the child as his own so Susie and Bobby could avoid the shame associated with having a child out of wedlock. On August 1st, 1964, Susie and Bruce got married in El Paso. Shortly after, Bobby left for California.
About a year and a half later, in March 1966, the Bobby Fuller Four played a concert at the Coliseum in El Paso that Suzie attended. Afterwards, she introduced Bobby to their daughter, Allison. The star didn't have much to say about his child beyond, "She's all right." Shortly after, Suzie wrote a love letter to Bobby. It spoke of her undying love for him and how she wanted to raise their child together.
The letter ended with a reference to the Bible's Gospel of Matthew 19:6, often used during wedding ceremonies: "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh: what therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." The subtext of those words: "You abandoned me." But Susie was just one of many complex relationships Bobby had been involved in, and Allison
wasn't his only child. According to Randy's book, when Bobby met Susie, he was already engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Pamela. Bobby and Pamela were long distance and on the rocks, but by no means over. Around this time, Bobby wrote a song for his reported fiance, released after his death. It's titled Pamela, and Bobby croons that he'll soon be making her his wife.
In his book, Randy detailed even more alleged complications in Bobby's life. At the same time that Susie told Bobby she was pregnant, a 15-year-old girl named Mary was reportedly giving birth to their son.
Her parents had threatened Bobby with a statutory rape charge, so he paid for Mary to live in hiding in New Mexico before putting the child up for adoption and returning to Texas. But even that wasn't the extent of Bobby's secrets. On the early morning of his death, Bobby placed a phone call to Melody, the woman who allegedly sold him LSD.
It's unclear whether Bobby and Melody had any sort of physical relationship. That said, Melody is shrouded in mystery. Sources vary on her relationship to Bobby, her profession, even her name. Melody, or in some cases referred to as Melanie, may have been a bartender at PJ's, a Los Angeles club and a celebrity hotspot.
Bobby and friends frequented the club along with crooner Frank Sinatra and actress Mia Farrow. Whoever Melody was, in relation to Bobby's death, her name is sometimes referenced for her suspected connection to the mob. The unknown car that Bobby saw in Melody's driveway a few days before he disappeared, some believe it belonged to her gangster boyfriend, which is why Bobby and Rick never went into the house to pick up the LSD.
When Bobby returned to her house on the night he disappeared, maybe Melody's alleged mobster companion saw Bobby and followed him home. The theory has some legs. Throughout much of the 40s and 50s, Mickey Cohen viciously and successfully ruled the Los Angeles organized crime scene. Five years before Bobby's death, officials sent Cohen to Alcatraz for tax evasion.
But crime families like Desimone and Bonanno filled the vacuum. So while the mob's hooks in Los Angeles retracted a bit, its presence in the 60s was still widely felt. In fact, according to Randy's wife, Dale, the mob was said to have its hands in the music industry, from radio station owners to record label executives. Even PJs, where Melody possibly worked, had rumored ties to the Chicago Mafia.
Rick Stone claimed that a car followed him and almost ran him off the road in the Hollywood Hills on the day Bobby died. He also stated that two men with guns tried to break into members of the Bobby Fuller Four's homes.
And Melody wasn't the only person suspected of underworld ties. The Bobby Fuller Four, through their label Delphi, had allegedly signed some sort of distribution and copyright deal with Roulette Records. The, quote, godfather of the American music business and suspected kingpin, Morris Levy, owned Roulette Records. And as negotiation tactics go, Levy had a history of using brute force to get his way.
In his 2010 book, Me, the Mob, and the Music, musician Tommy James claimed that Levy once threatened to disembowel him. In a dispute with singer Little Richard, Levy threatened to rip the singer's face off. According to James, Levy has connections to a number of murders that remain unsolved to this day. But why would Levy need to resort to violence with Bobby?
Well, Levy's alleged motivations center around a controversy that had nothing to do with Bobby's love life. In the days and months leading up to Bobby's death, Bobby was considering going solo. By some accounts, the Bobby Fuller Four and Delphi label executives were supposed to discuss Bobby's desire to cancel the band's contract at the 9.30 a.m. meeting that Bobby never showed up to.
If Bobby left, Morris Levy would have potentially lost out on a major investment. And so would others at the band's record label, Delphi. The owner of Bobby's record label, Bob Keene, allegedly had a hefty life insurance policy taken out on the rock and roller. Maybe Keene and Levy saw that money as severance pay for Bobby leaving them in the dust.
Maybe they hired someone to kill the singer and make it appear accidental so they could collect on their policy. But there are some types of death that insurance companies don't cover, but they do cover accidents. And as it turns out, Keene supposedly hired a private investigator to ensure that Bobby's death was officially marked as accidental.
But if Morris Levy had a hand in Bobby's murder, concrete evidence has been difficult to come by. That said, Levy wouldn't be the only suspect on our list capable of plotting murder. Jim Reese, the leading guitarist of the Bobby Fuller Four, suspects that notorious cult leader Charles Manson might have been behind Bobby's death. He masterminded a string of brutal murders in the late 60s.
And Jim's wife, Beth, claims that Manson had once wandered into PJ's nightclub asking for Bobby. He wanted to take guitar lessons from the front man. Manson, at the time, was a wannabe singer-songwriter who spent his days in and out of jail.
Manson wasn't successful in music by any stretch of the imagination, but he wasn't talentless. He penned the Beach Boys' 1968 song, Never Learn Not to Love, originally titled Cease to Exist. The Beach Boys changed a few words to the song and paid Manson out, so he was never credited. Perhaps Bobby rejected Manson's request for guitar lessons, and Manson, scorned again, had Bobby murdered.
And there's another bizarre connection between Bobby and the cult leader. In 1969, three years after Bobby's death, the Bobby Fuller Four's hairdresser, Jay Sebring, and Sebring's close friend, actress Sharon Tate, were killed by Manson family members. If it were murder, Bobby could have been one of Manson's earliest murder victims without anyone ever knowing about it. Unfortunately, there's no evidence, no murder investigation ever happened,
which has led some to accuse the LAPD of negligence and others to believe that they were involved in a cover-up. Negligence is certainly a possibility. Two days before Bobby Fuller died, the famous chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Chief William H. Parker, died of a heart attack after serving for almost four decades. The department was said to be in disarray as they dealt with his loss.
And there are allusions to a cover-up, according to Edna Gunderson's reporting for the El Paso Times. She wrote, "...two private investigators were hired to study Bobby's death. One investigator abruptly quit the case, the other quietly left town, saying he had been threatened."
Unfortunately, no existing witness can account for what happened on July 18th between 3 a.m. when Bobby left his landlord's apartment and 5 p.m. when Lorraine found his body. And the testimony of those who were at the crime scene differed drastically. There were a number of witnesses who saw burns covering Bobby's body at the crime scene. The medical examiner, however, found nothing to suggest he'd been burned.
Now, this discrepancy can be explained. Witnesses likely mistook Bobby's many blisters caused by the intensity of the gasoline fumes in the car for burns.
Witnesses also claim that Bobby was covered in bruises and blood. They saw fresh tears on his slippers, and they say Bobby looked like someone had dumped gasoline all over him. Not to mention, Rick Stone remembers Bobby having at least five or six beers that night, and yet the autopsy and toxicology reports state that there were no bruises, no cuts, and no alcohol in his system.
Some witnesses claim that Bobby had his hand on the keys in the ignition. Others said that the keys weren't in the ignition at all. Both have very different implications. For all we know, he could have been coming, going, or staying put. When officials pulled Bobby's body out of the car, they claimed that rigor mortis had set in, meaning the joints and muscles had stiffened.
This typically begins about two to four hours after someone passes. Some research has suggested that in high enough temperatures, it can start affecting some parts of the body in as little as 30 minutes. On the day Bobby died, temperatures peaked at around 76 degrees Fahrenheit. Up to eight hours of the day were recorded at over 70 degrees. It's not impossible that rigor mortis could have set in quickly,
Witnesses, however, claim they saw no signs of a struggle as they watched officials lift Bobby out of the Oldsmobile. If the rigor mortis was as advanced as they said, some suspect the removal wouldn't have gone so smoothly. In other words, if the witnesses' eyes weren't playing tricks on them, Bobby's body appeared freshly dead.
Which brings us to the timeline, perhaps the biggest mystery of Bobby's death. Lorraine Fuller checked to see if Bobby had arrived multiple times that afternoon. She was certain Bobby's car was not outside the apartment until 5 p.m. when she found his body. Randy Fuller was sure that his protective mother wouldn't have missed the car if it was there, not after losing her eldest son, Jack.
But one of Bobby's friends, Robin Vinikoff, claimed to have stopped by 1776 Sycamore around 3 p.m., two hours earlier than anyone else noticed the car. When he did, apparently Bobby's Oldsmobile was parked outside. On the other hand, Bobby's friends, Ty Grimes and Mike Ciccarelli, corroborate Lorraine's version of the story. Both insist that Bobby's car wasn't outside when they pulled into the parking lot.
just about 15 minutes before police pronounced Bobby dead. Would that be enough time to park a car, move a body, and leave? Grimes and Ciccarelli remember hearing a vehicle pulling behind them when they parked in the lot just before Bobby's body was found. They didn't turn around to see what the car looked like. They didn't think to. They never caught a color, make, or model who was in it or whether they were alone.
This is, unfortunately, where the investigation ends. The cold case from 1966 is unlikely to ever produce new leads. And while any of these threads might suggest a more sinister explanation for Bobby's death, they've all long since unraveled. Anytime a star dies, there's the temptation to ascribe more meaning to their passing.
to claim it was a sinister plot or an act of revenge or jealousy from a less talented, less attractive individual. Fame does kill, and in the 60s and 70s, when drug and alcohol use was rampant in the music scene, that was especially so. Many musicians of this period were beacons of light in uncertain times. They sang about love and loss, but to an upbeat tempo and with a cheery rhyme.
We like to think that perhaps the work they produced was too bright for the oppressive forces of the time, and that their creative abilities were snuffed out decades earlier than they should have been.
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For more information on Bobby Fuller's death amongst the many sources we used, we found the book, I Fought the Law, The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller by Miriam Linna and Randall Fuller and reporting from Edna Gunderson at the El Paso Times, extremely helpful to our research. Until next time, remember, the truth isn't always the best story and the official story isn't always the truth.
This episode was written by Connor Sampson and Chelsea Wood. Researched by Brian Petras. Fact-checked by Bennett Logan. Standards and practices review by Laurie Siegel. And video editing and sound design by Alex Button. I'm your host, Carter Roy.