The Unfathomable Death of Robert Lees | Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown

When Helen Colton went to pick up her longtime partner Robert Lees, a once prominent screenwriter, for a gala at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, she anticipated an evening of fun and laughter. However, when she arrived at his home to find his newspaper still sitting on the porch and a door to his house ajar, her body immediately filled with dread. Nothing could prepare her for what she was about to uncover.

Episode Sources:

“Trusting, to the end” by Martin Miller, LA Times, Jul. 5, 2004

“Double Hollywood Murder: Producer and Doctor BEHEADED By a Go Go Boy” - a conversation between Helen Colton and Scott Michaels (Dearly Departed Tours), Nov. 27 2015

“Man gets life for beheading screenwriter, killing second man” LA Daily News, Apr. 4, 2008

Scott Michaels’ Find a Death - Robert Lees

“SUSPECT IN GRISLY MURDERS HAD TROUBLED HISTORY” by Ryan Oliver, Hermiston Herald, Jun. 18, 2004

“Transient Is Arrested in Slayings of 2” by Regine Labossiere, Andrew Blankstein & Nikki Usher, LA Times, Jun. 15, 2004

“In Memoriam to My Cousin Bobby Lees” by Karin Badt

"The outlaws” by Tom Dewe Mathews, The Guardian, Oct. 7, 2006

“Voices of the 60s and 70s” - Sex After the Sexual Revolution by Helen Colton, May 5, 2013

“Ex-Marine Pleads Guilty In Beheading, Murder” CBS2, Feb. 26, 2008

“Relatives express rage at killer of 2” by Jack Leonard, LA Times, Apr. 5, 2008