I'm a sucker for a memoir. It is fascinating how someone can distill down the events of their life into engaging nuggets that often provide insight into the author and possibly the world at large.

Recently, Reddit user lammastide posed the question, "Which lesser-known celebrity death really affected you/do you think about often?" to the people of r/popculturechat. Here were their ...

Dominique Dunne, a promising actress best known for ... The 22-year-old was killed by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney. Sweeney had grown volatile and abusive in their relationship.

It especially highlights the systemic failures that gave John Sweeney, the man who murdered Dominique Dunne, a sentence too lenient for her murder. Much time has passed since John Sweeney was ...

Dominique, a rising actress strangled to death by her boyfriend, John Sweeney, in 1982. Dunne and Didion had inadvertently brought the couple together, taking Dominique to Ma Maison, the French ...

After a physical altercation in September 1982 — three months after Poltergeist was released — Dunne broke up with boyfriend John Sweeney, whom she had been dating for a year. One month later ...

Her final acting role was in the 1983 miniseries V. On October 30, 1982, Dominique Dunne was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, at her West Hollywood home. That day, she was rehearsing ...

In the show, we learn that Dominick's own daughter Dominique Dunne was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney. The death had long-lasting ramifications that led in part to Dominick's involvement ...

Warning! This post contains spoilers for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. This post contains mentions of abuse and ...

has nothing to do with the Menendez case—but rather the trial of John Thomas Sweeney, who murdered his daughter, Dominique Dunne in October 1982. "Do you know she tried to help make a plea deal ...

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