Just when it seemed like Frank Zappa had finally found the appreciation he deserved, he was diagnosed with a disease that had been silently spreading for years.
Even Libby Holman’s closest friends were terrified of her thirst for life, for fun, and for everything naughty. But one day, she got a letter in the mail in an unfamiliar scrawl—and its contents shook her to her core.
On January 25, 1960, Hollywood actress Diana Barrymore was found unresponsive in her apartment. While many believed her death was caused by an overdose—the autopsy revealed something much more troubling.
When Jackson C. Frank was only 11, a furnace exploded in his school and took the lives of 15 of his classmates, including his girlfriend Marlene. But this was only the beginning of his lifelong nightmare.
When Nick Adams failed to show up for dinner, Ervin Roeder knew something was wrong. Roeder went to Adams’ house to check on him—but what he found was utterly chilling.
Dustin Hoffman’s aunt told him that he was not good-looking enough to be in movies, so he spent his life proving her wrong. But in the third act of his career, stunning allegations came out that threatened to derail everything he’d built.
