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Celebrity
Autopsy Reports
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Plato, Dana:
(November 7, 1964 - May 8, 1999)
Dana Plato was a talented actress
who gained fame by playing the
daughter, Kim Drummond, in the
sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. She
began her TV and movie career at a
very young age appearing in
different television commercials
including those for companies such
as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Dole
Foods. Dana played the part in Diff'rent Strokes until 1984
when she became pregnant and the
show's producers felt her pregnancy
did not fit in with the wholesome
image portrayed by the show. After
she was let go by the show, she
started to transition into a
different individual. She got breast
implants and posed nude in
Playboy, and then starred in a
soft-core pornographic film,
Different
Strokes: The Story of Jack and
Jill...and Jill.
As her career spiraled downward out
of control, she ended up out of work
and eventually robbed a video store
at gunpoint. She started to abuse
prescription drugs, such as Valium,
more and more. On May 7, 1999, Dana
appeared on The Howard Stern Show,
telling the audience of her
financial problems and how she was a
recovering alcoholic and drug
addict. She announced that she was
engaged to her manager, Robert
Menchaca, and that she and her
fiancé were living out of the back
of a recreational vehicle. On May 8,
1999, the couple stopped off at her
fiancé's mother's place for a break,
Plato decided to lie down inside her
recreational vehicle parked outside
the house and subsequently died of
an overdose from Soma and Vicodin. Dana Plato was cremated
following her death.
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Richardson,
Jiles (J.P.): (October
24, 1930 - February 3, 1959)
Jiles P. Richardson, known to his
fans as "The Big Bopper" was an
outstanding young disc jockey,
singer and songwriter and talented
rock and roll star. The Big Bopper
had taken time off from his disc
jockey position to join Ritchie
Valens, Buddy Holly, and Dion and
the Belmonts for the "Winter Party
Party." On the morning of February
3, 1959 around 1 AM, The Big Bopper,
along with Ritchie Valens, and Buddy
Holly perished in an airplane crash
as it was taking off from the Mason
City, Iowa airport. The plane took
off
in a blinding
snowstorm with the light
plane crashing shortly after lifting
off, killing everyone aboard.
Ironically, the group's bus had
previously broken down and Buddy
Holly
chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza plane
to fly the group to their next
destination taking Richardson and
Valens with him.
Richardson was ill that evening
suffering from the flu, so Waylon
Jennings had offered his airplane
seat to Richardson so he didn't have
to ride on the bus. JP
Richardson is buried in the
Forest
Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home
in Beaumont, Texas. A formal autopsy
was not done at the time; however,
the cause of his death is listed as
massive head and internal injuries
as the result of the plane crash. In
January 2007, The Big Bopper's son,
Jay, had his body exhumed and
autopsied by forensic
anthropologist, Dr. Bill Bass, to
lay to rest the controversy that his
dad was able to survive the airplane
crash and was shot instead. These
rumors were unfounded as Dr. Bass
stated that "There are fractures
from head to toe. Massive fractures.
... (Richardson) died immediately.
He didn't crawl away. He didn't walk
away from the plane."
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Smith, Anna
Nicole:
Vickie Lynn
Marshall, also known as Anna Nicole
Smith, was a prominent model and
actress, who had a life surrounded
by fame, glamour, and controversy,
died unexpectedly of acute drug
combination intoxification of
Chloral Hydrate, Benadryl, and
several benzodiazepines, including
clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam, and
oxazepam.
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Taylor, Sean:
Sean Taylor was a young and
outstanding athlete and professional
football player who was a free
safety for the Washington Redskins.
His death was ruled a homicide after
he was shot during a home invasion.
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