The Complicated Life & Death of Nancy Spungen - Part 3
"There's trouble in Room 100." Those were the words muttered by a male caller to the man working the front desk of the Chelsea Hotel the morning of October 12, 1978. The "trouble" was that 20-year-old Nancy Spungen was dead in the bathroom from a single stab wound to her abdomen. Multiple people had been in and out of the room throughout the previous night, but only one was considered a suspect: Sid Vicious. Â Episode Sources: âIn Search of Sidâ - Radio 4 Documentary about Sid Vicious with Jah Wobble âSad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancyâ dir. Danny Garcia, 2015 âThe Not So Lonesome Death of Nancy Spungenâ by Ann Louise Bardach, Oct 26, 1978 âCop Treated Sid Vicious Like A Regular Punkâ - transcripts from grand jury presentation, The Smoking Gun â25 Up: Punkâs Silver Jubilee: So Tough: The Boy Behind the Sid Vicious Mythâ by Charlotte Robinson, PopMatters, Nov 08, 2001 âSid: By Those Who Knew Himâ - documentary âAnd I Donât Want to Live This Life: A Motherâs Story of Her Daughterâs Murderâ by Deborah Spungen, 1983 âABO Incompatibility in a Newborn: Why Blood Type Matters in Pregnancyâ by Alicia Stevens, MD and Karla Robinson, MD, GoodRx, Apr 3, 2023 âMy New York: Sid & Nancyâ by Reed Tucker, New York Post, Jul 25, 2010 âFlashback: Nancy Spungen Found Dead at Chelsea Hotelâ by Jessica Wakeman, Rolling Stone, Oct 12, 2017 âThe Not So Lonesome Death of Nancy Spungenâ by Ann Bardach, SoHo Weekly News, Oct 26, 1978 ââHe Said He Was Going To Killââ by David Hershkovits & Lesley Vinson, SoHo Weekly News, Oct 19-25, 1978 âNancy and Sid: A punk mystery storyâ by Deborah Orr, The Independent, Oct 11, 2003 âSidâs Way: The Life and Death of Sid Viciousâ by Keith Bateson & Alan Parker, 1991 âFreedom, festivity and dead by sunrise: Inside Sid Viciousâs drug-fuelled last partyâ The Independent, May 28, 2024 âThe Day Punk Diedâ by Karen Schoemer, New York Magazine, October 17, 2008 â1978: Sex Pistol Vicious on murder chargeâ BBC, Oct 12, 1978 âThe Jaw-Dropping Story Behind Sid and Nancy, Punk Rock's
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"There's trouble in Room 100." Those were the words muttered by a male caller to the man working the front desk of the Chelsea Hotel the morning of October 12, 1978. The "trouble" was that 20-year-old Nancy Spungen was dead in the bathroom from a single stab wound to her abdomen. Multiple people had been in and out of the room throughout the previous night, but only one was considered a suspect: Sid Vicious. Â Episode Sources: âIn Search of Sidâ - Radio 4 Documentary about Sid Vicious with Jah W...