Depending on whom you ask, the murder of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” star Sal Mineo was due to revenge, salacious Hollywood blackmail, Deep State CIA-linked assassins or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Now, criminal justice advocates are arguing that it was also a case of an innocent man being wrongly convicted and serving decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

In 1976, Mineo was a down-on-his-luck 37-year-old actor when he was brutally stabbed to death outside his West Hollywood apartment. 20

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The Oscar-nominee was the second “Rebel” star to meet a tragic end. James Dean died in a September 1955 car crash, a month before the film was released. Natalie Wood would round out the so-called “Rebel curse” when she drowned under mysterious circumsta

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