On the night of June 15, 1959, "Superman" actor George Reeves and his fiance Leonore Lemmon went out drinking in Los Angeles. When they returned home, Reeves went to bed, but Lemmon kept the party going with three guests. Around 1 a.m., Reeves walked downstairs and complained about the noise that Lemmon and her friends were making. When he turned to go back to the bedroom, Lemmon reportedly said, "He's going upstairs to shoot himself." The guests then heard a noise, and Lemmon stated, "See, he's opening the drawer to get the gun." Then a shot rang through the house. "I told you, he's shot himself," Lemmon said.
Nobody called the police for 45 minutes, but when they arrived, they quickly ruled Reeves' death a suicide — despite the fact that there were three bullet holes and no fingerprints on the gun. To this day, many people are convinced that Reeves didn't kill himself at all. Some believe he was taken out by the Mafia on the orders of Eddie Mannix, the general manager of MGM Studios whose wife had a three-year-long affair with Reeves. Others think Lemmon murdered him in a fit of passion — then had her friends help her cover it up.

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