Hotels of Death The Famous Checked In But Never Checked Out - Oscar Wilde, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Nancy Spungen, Whitney Houston, Martin Luther King, R Kennedy, HH Holmes, Reles Contents Introduction Hotel Murders and Assassinations: H.H. Holmes: The World's Fair Hotel, aka 'The Castle', Chicago; Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles: Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, New York; Albert Anastasia: Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City; Martin Luther King Jr. Lorraine Motel, Memphis; Robert Kennedy: Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles Hotel Celebrity Deaths: Oscar Wilde: Hotel d'Alsace, Paris; Fatty Arbuckle and the Death of Virginia Rappe: St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco; Jimi Hendrix: Samarkand Hotel, London; Janis Joplin: Landmark Motel, Los Angeles; Nancy Spungen: Chelsea Hotel, New York; John Belushi: Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles; Anna Nicole Smith: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, and Casino, Hollywood, Florida; Whitney Houston: Beverley Hilton Hotel Hotel Terrorism: King David Hotel Bombing: Jerusalem; Brighton Bombing: Grand Hotel, Brighton; 2008 Mumbai Attacks: Taj Mahal Hotel and Oberoi Trident, Mumbai Hotels. We stay in them for a variety of reasons - for business, for pleasure or, perhaps, as we are passing through a town or city on our way to somewhere else. They provide a brief respite in such a journey or a place to retreat from the cares of a busy day. For some unlucky souls, however, they are the end of the line, the last place where they will ever lay their heads. The notable and notorious have made a habit of taking their last curtain call in hotels. Some, of course, have had no choice - in 1957 mob leader Albert 'Mad Hatter' Anastasia was blasted at almost point-blank range by three gunmen as he dozed in the chair of the Park Sheraton Hotel, Manhattan. Meanwhile Murder, Inc's most feared hit man, Abel 'Kid Twist' Reles, mysteriously 'fell' from a window of the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island in 1941, despite being guarded by half a dozen armed police officer