20-year-old Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of former Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious, is found dead of abdominal knife wounds in their room at Chelsea Hotel in New York. Vicious, nearly unconscious due to the effects of several different drugs, is charged with her murder, jailed and then released. He would die of a heroin overdose on February 2nd, 1979, before the case could come to trial. The New York City Police Department closed the case after his death.
I was obsessed with the Sex Pistols and the story of Sid and Nancy when I was a teenager. Cursed lovers and all that, pretty dumb but it seemed kind of romantic at that age. It didn’t register with me when I was first learning about it, probably due to being so young myself but holy shit, she was 20 when she died! So young, such a waste.