The disappearance of this growing Hollywood star is still not resolved 73 years later
Jean Spangler was a promising actor when she disappeared in 1949.
In the late 1940s, Jean Spangler Made his way in Hollywood as a dancer and actor. If her career had continued the way she had hoped, she would have been a movie star. But on October 7, 1949, the 27 -year -old was seen for the last time, and His disappearance There remains a mystery to date. The authorities found little evidence after the rising star has disappeared, with the exception of his handbag and a mysterious note. Those who were close to her were able to point out what Spangler had shared with them for the last time about her life, but these clues did not put anywhere. Does she fled? Or was she kidnapped and killed? Read the rest to find out more about this convincing case, which remains unresolved 73 years later.
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Spangler was an actor and dancer.
At the time she had disappeared, Spangler worked at the Florentine Gardens nightclub as a dancer and had also been a supplement in some films, including When my baby smiles at me ,, Young man with a horn , and Avenue Wabash . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Mother to a young girl named Christine , the budding ascent had been in a guard battle with his ex-husband, Dexter Benner . Initially, he received custody of Christine after Painting Spangler as a reveler Before the court, according to the Los Angeles Times . Spangler later received custody of his child.
It was seen for the last time on October 7, 1949.
The evening of Friday October 7, 1949, Spangler left Christine with her sister-in-law, Sophie . The Los Angeles Times Reports that she told Sophie that she was going to meet Benner about her payment of child alimony, then go to work on a film. Spangler lived with his mother, Florence Spangler , who was outside the city.
"She went down the stairs and asked what she looked like," Sophie told journalists , according Weekly entertainment . "She smiled at me, then her little girl, Christine, asked where she was going." Was going to work, "said Jean again, but she wink at me when she said."
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Her bag was found in a park.
Sophie said Spangler called to tell her that she would not be at home before morning, but when Spangler was still not at home on Saturday evening, she called the police.
Sunday, a worker from Griffith Park de Los Angeles found the Spangler handbag. The handle was torn and the bag contained a note written by the missing actor. "Kirk, I can't wait any longer. I'm going to see Dr Scott," he says. "It will work better this way while Mother is absent."
It was the only trace of Spangler that has ever been found.
There are several theories of what happened to him.
Neither the police nor the people of his life knew who were "Kirk" or "Dr Scott" - or at least no one presented this information. According to Los Angeles time S, the actor Kirk Douglas - The most famous kirk was - called the authorities of his holidays at Palm Springs and denied that the name was referring to him. The two had both appeared in Young man with a horn , but Douglas said he barely knew Spangler.
Actor Robert Cummings reported having seen Spangler before his disappearance. He said that she was in a new relationship and told her that she "had the time of [her] life".
The missing woman would also have been seen with two men associated with the gangster Mickey Cohen .
Various sons concerning the note and where Spangler finds themselves led to theories according to which she was killed by the crowd, killed during a secret abortion, killed by her ex-husband, or killed by the black murderer of Dahlia, since that she shared some similarities with Elizabeth Short , which had been murdered two years earlier.
Police think she was killed, but she didn't know who.
Weekly entertainment reported that Rick Jackson , a retired detective of LAPD homicides, said that the most likely reality is that Spangler has been killed. But no one has ever been arrested or accused of his murder and no body was found.
"Nothing I have ever read would indicate [she jumped the city]," said Jackson. "People generally do not do this kind of thing unless there is a unique reason or set of reasons. Obviously, she has taken care enough of her daughter to recover the guard. It is logical that she met a unfair game. There is no doubt that she was dead, and that is why she never surfaced. "
