Explore the most notorious locations in California. Fact-checked. Verified. Morbidly fascinating.
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14-year-old Celeste Hernandez was found dead in singer D4vd's car at this impound lot.
The only house Marilyn Monroe ever owned, and the site of her deadly overdose at age 36.
The Los Angeles home that actress Anne Heche fatally drove her car into.
The Mansion where Michael Jackson fatally overdosed on propofol.
Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove their SUV off a California cliff in 2018, killing themselves and their six adopted children in a murder-suicide.
Mob boss Bugsy Siegel was shot dead through the window of his Beverly Hills home in 1947.
Actress Brittany Murphy died in her Hollywood Hills home in 2009, followed by her husband five months later in the same house.
Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 at age 11 and held captive in a California backyard for 18 years.
NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others were killed when their helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside in 2020.
Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono raped and murdered ten young women at Buono's Glendale upholstery shop in 1977 and 1978.
Actor River Phoenix died at 23 of a drug overdose outside Johnny Depp's Viper Room nightclub on Halloween morning 1993.
Long Beach serial killer Randy Kraft raped, tortured, and killed at least 16 young men from his east side home between 1971 and 1983.
On July 18, 1984, a lone gunman killed 21 people and wounded 19 more at a San Ysidro McDonald's before a police sniper stopped him.
The July 1981 bludgeoning of four people inside a Laurel Canyon drug house remains officially unsolved after every suspect was acquitted.
Actor Paul Walker died here on November 30, 2013, when a Porsche Carrera GT left the road and burst into flames in Santa Clarita.
Pop singer Aaron Carter drowned accidentally in the bathtub of his Lancaster home on November 5, 2022, at age 34.
Actress Dominique Dunne was strangled by her ex-boyfriend outside this West Hollywood home in 1982, dying five days later at age 22.
On August 31, 1985, residents of a Boyle Heights street cornered serial killer Richard Ramirez as he tried to steal a car.
Actress Natalie Wood drowned off Catalina Island in 1981 after a night aboard her yacht, and the case remains unsolved.
Actor Robert Blake dined here with wife Bonny Lee Bakley on May 4, 2001, minutes before she was fatally shot in his car nearby.
Actor James Dean died here at 24 on September 30, 1955, when his Porsche collided with a car turning across the highway near Cholame.
The LA home where "Friends" star Matthew Perry died of ketamine effects in 2023, leading to five federal convictions.
