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jill ann weatherwax {the murder of miss hollywood}


when i read the very brief synopsis about jill ann weatherwax: the murder of miss hollywood i was very compelled, only to learn it was from 1999 and probably wouldn't be repeated ever. if anyone has seen it, can they please tell me about it, who she was, what happened? i found that such a low-profile case must have been compelling since it was the subject of an entire e! true hollywood story, back in the day when the episodes were actually good.

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Jill Weatherwax was a model, singer, and former beauty pageant winner (Miss Hollywood, Miss Great Lakes, etc). She had a record contract by the time she was 17, but she moved from her native Michigan to Hollywood. At first she was doing fine there, she hung out with a lot of famous people and became engaged to a restaurant owner from London. But after he took her back to London for a while, she became an alcoholic and drug user. When she moved back to CA, she and her fiance broke up, and she just went downhill from there. If I remember right she was arrested 3 times for being drunk in public and lost her job as well. In March of 1998 she was last seen alive getting into a car with three men. Later that day she was found stabbed to death on a rural road. I've got two magazine articles about her from recent times and her killers have never been caught. Hope that helps.

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." -Oscar Wilde

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