What really happened to Bobby Fuller?
In July 1966, just months after his hit song “I Fought the Law” climbed the Billboard charts, rising rock and roll star Bobby Fuller was found dead inside a locked car—his body soaked in gasoline, the evidence mishandled, and the cause of death left with question marks.
In this episode of Spotlight Murder by Skoob, host Kieran Caldwell investigates one of music history’s most unsettling unsolved cases. We trace Bobby Fuller’s rapid rise from a Texas DIY musician to a national rock sensation, the intense pressure from record labels, financial disputes, creative control battles, and the final 24 hours that led to a death officials labeled accident or suicide—without certainty.
Was Bobby Fuller the victim of a tragic accident?
Did he take his own life?
Or was something far more sinister covered up behind the scenes of the 1960s music industry?
This deep dive explores the ignored evidence, disturbing timelines, missing witnesses, and the theories that still haunt rock fans and true crime investigators nearly 60 years later.
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