Maybe Sid Didn’t Kill Nancy…?
In one month and one day Nancy Spungen would have been turning 51 years old, had she not died from a stab wound at age 20 inside the Hotel Chelsea. Since then her death has been shrouded in mystery, with a majority of fingers pointed at Sid Vicious…
but is that all about to change? A new documentary on the troubled couple claims the Sex Pistols bassist may have had nothing to do with the death of his lover. Vicious, who died about four months later of a drug overdose, never went to trial but was always the NYPD’s prime suspect in the case. Jezebel notes that his mother “who committed suicide in 1996, always believed that her son was innocent…
asked film maker Alan G. Parker to help her prove it.” Enter Who Killed Nancy?, Parker’s new Sherlock Holmes-meets-Sid Vicious type film that traces the evening of Spungen’s murder and other possible suspects.
