Puzzling Celebrity Deaths That Still Remain a Mystery Today

George Reeves

Allegedly, George Reeves shot himself in the head in the early morning of June 16, 1959—but it doesn't quite add up. Why would Reeves commit suicide at the height of his career? Why hadn't any fingerprints been recovered from the gun? Why were Reeves' hands clean from gunpowder residue? And, perhaps most confusingly, how did he manage to silently put a bullet in his head while his wife and three friends were downstairs?

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