The Complicated Life & Death of Nancy Spungen - Part 3 | Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown

"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.

Episode Sources:

“In Search of Sid” - Radio 4 Documentary about Sid Vicious with Jah Wobble

“Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy” dir. Danny Garcia, 2015

“The Not So Lonesome Death of Nancy Spungen” by Ann Louise Bardach, Oct 26, 1978

“Cop Treated Sid Vicious Like A Regular Punk” - transcripts from grand jury presentation, The Smoking Gun

“25 Up: Punk’s Silver Jubilee: So Tough: The Boy Behind the Sid Vicious Myth” by Charlotte Robinson, PopMatters, Nov 08, 2001

“Sid: By Those Who Knew Him” - documentary

“And I Don’t Want to Live This Life: A Mother’s Story of Her Daughter’s Murder” by Deborah Spungen, 1983

“ABO Incompatibility in a Newborn: Why Blood Type Matters in Pregnancy” by Alicia Stevens, MD and Karla Robinson, MD, GoodRx, Apr 3, 2023

“My New York: Sid & Nancy” by Reed Tucker, New York Post, Jul 25, 2010

“Flashback: Nancy Spungen Found Dead at Chelsea Hotel” by Jessica Wakeman, Rolling Stone, Oct 12, 2017

“The Not So Lonesome Death of Nancy Spungen” by Ann Bardach, SoHo Weekly News, Oct 26, 1978