Who killed Sal Mineo?
Wild conspiracies surround the murder of 1950s ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ heartthrob Sal Mineo, but his convicted killer maintains innocence
…Depending on whom you ask, the murder of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” star Sal Mineo came down to revenge, salacious Hollywood blackmail, Deep State CIA-linked assassins, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Now, criminal justice advocates are arguing that it was also a case of an innocent man being wrongly convicted and serving decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
In 1976, Mineo was a down-on-his-luck 37-year-old actor when he was brutally stabbed to death outside his West Hollywood apartment…