From: NewNowNext
Closing out our week with Sal, he played the killer in 1965’s Who Killed Teddy Bear, alongside Juliet Prowse.
In 1969 Sal directed the stage play of Fortune And Men’s Eyes, with an 18-year-old Don Johnson. His last film role was as Dr. Milo in Escape From The Planet Of The Apes in 1971. Sadly, just when Sal’s career was on the upswing, tragedy struck.
“By 1976, Mineo’s career had begun to turn around. While playing the role of a bisexual burglar in a series of stage performances of the comedy, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, in San Francisco, Mineo received substantial publicity from many positive reviews, and he moved to Los Angeles along with the play. Mineo was arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, when he was stabbed to death in the alley behind his apartment building near the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. Mineo was stabbed just once, not repeatedly as first reported, but the knife blade struck his heart, leading to immediate and fatal internal bleeding.
After a lengthy investigation, Lionel Ray Williams, a pizza deliveryman, was arrested for the crime. In March 1979, he was convicted and sentenced to 57 years in prison for killing Mineo, and for committing 10 robberies in the same area. Although considerable confusion existed as to what witnesses had seen in the darkness on the night Mineo was murdered, prison guards were later revealed to have overheard Williams admitting to the stabbing.”
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