9. Dylan McDermott – Heard His Mother Get Murdered
Actor Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story) has a really tragic past involving the murder of his mother, a crime that was only recently solved. In 1967, McDermott’s mother was dating the known gangster John Sponza. On a cold February morning, Sponza told McDermott to go outside and play.
A few minutes after leaving the house, McDermott heard shouting and a gunshot. The gunshot victim was his mother. She had been shot in the head and the police ruled it as accidental. Dylan was a key witness of the crime and reported times when Sponza would point guns directly at him as a child. Though McDermott (five at the time) was convinced it was Sponza, he was told there was not enough evidence to convict.
It didn’t help that Sponza was himself found dead in 1972. Then in 2011, McDermott asked that the cold case be reopened and properly investigated. It was then that police learned Sponza’s father was a police jailer and Sponza was a police informant. It appeared that the murder had been covered up. Even though he was long dead, Sponza was convicted.
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