text: July 19, 1998 
   
   By Robert Seltzer 
   
   El Paso Times 
   
   Bobby Fuller died 32 years ago, on July 18, 1966, but to his friends and relatives, the death remains as painful and vivid as this morning's obituary section. 
   
   Fuller was found slumped in the front seat of his car, a can of gasoline by his side, outside his apartment in Hollywood. 
   
   Police concluded the death, due to inhalation of gasoline, was either a suicide or an accident. 
   
   Friends and family dispute that report, and the theories on the death are as varied as the individuals expressing them - including the theory that Fuller was murdered by an organized crime figure who became jealous because his girlfriend was attracted to the rock 'n' roller. 
   
   "There's a lot of speculation," said Rod Crosby, a friend and rival musician. "But we'll never know what really happened." 
   
   Police discovered blood and abrasions on the body, and skeptics point to that discovery as proof that the death was neither an accident nor a suicide. 
   
   "Who would pour gas on himself in a hot car?" Randy Fuller, the younger brother of the deceased rock star, asked rhetorically. "I just think he got in a bad situation that night, met the wrong dude and couldn't get out of it. I'm 99.9 percent sure that it wasn't an accident or a suicide." 
   
   Crosby agrees. 
   
   "He was not street-smart, so he did hurt himself, from the standpoint of not knowing how ugly things could be in LA," Crosby said. 
   
   "Story has it that he was having a fling with the girl of a low-level mobster. He wasn't aware of that until it was too late. My theory is that they just wanted to work him over, but things went awry. So it wasn't the result of organized crime so much as disorganized crime. ... But nothing's going to happen now, more than 30 years later. We'll just never know what really happened." 
   
   Lorraine Fuller, who was 79 when she died of a heart attack in 1989, was staying with her sons in Hollywood at the time Bobby Fuller died. 
   
   "Bobby would never have taken his own life," Randy Fuller said. "He would never have done that to my mother." 
   
   Boyd Elder, who had known Fuller since the late 1950s, was attending art school in Los Angeles when Fuller died. 
   
   "He was not self-destructive at all," said Elder, a graduate of Burges High who now lives in Valentine, Texas. "He seldom even drank. He was polite and gentlemanly, and the girls loved him. He was on his way to stardom. Whatever happened, it wasn't suicide." 
   
   The death remains shrouded in so much mystery that E, the Entertainment Channel, plans to produce a program on Fuller. 
   
   "Shooting will begin in the late fall," said Keith Fenimore, a public relations official for the cable network. "I'm not sure if they'll shoot in El Paso, and I'm not sure when it will air." ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| 9 Awesome Experiences L.A. Has to Offer This Weekend 
   
   A Celtic faire, Appalachian fiddle, late night hackers, and a Hindu celebration of life 
   
   CONFABS: PaleyFest 2015 
   
   The annual television love-athon brings together the casts of hit shows and the fans who adore them at postscreening conversations. Among the programs on this year’s roster are Scandal, The Good Wife, Arrow, and The Flash. More information (March 6-15; Dolby Theatre) 
   
   MOVIES: Thom Andersen: The Thoughts That Once We Had 
   
   In his 2003 documentary, Los Angeles Plays Itself, the CalArts professor stitched together cinematic scenes of the city. For this deep dive into movie history, he’s influenced by the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who wrote two books on film. More information (March 6; REDCAT) 
   
   MOVIES: Midnight Screening: Hackers 
   
   Relive the campy splendor of 1990s cyberpunk cinema, complete with screeching modems, Rol­lerblade chases, thumping techno music, and a young Angelina Jolie and her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller. More information (March 6; Nuart Theatre) 
   
   MUSIC: Joshua Radin 
   
   Americana aficionados unite for a showcase headlined by Radin, whose folk-inflected tunes star on his latest album, Onward and Sideways. The affair kicks off with Virginian singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata and Los Angeles-based acoustic troubadour Cary Brothers. More information (March 7; The Fonda Theatre) 
   
   CONFABS: Holi Festival of Colors Los Angeles 
   
   Think twice about wearing white at this Hindu celebration of life: Polychromatic powder will be liberally applied in traditional designs to the faces of attendees. Crowds are also invited to toss water balloons and fire squirt guns while musical groups perform in the background. More information (March 7; Excelsior High School) 
   
   MUSIC: Enslaved 
   
   Norway’s Enslaved have long represented the vanguard of Black Metal music—a genre that deals in buzz saw guitars and macabre imagery. The band is touring in support of their latest album, In Times. More information (March 6; El Rey Theatre) 
   
   CONFABS: Celtic Faire 
   
   You don’t need to look like a Game of Thrones extra to enjoy a gathering of all things Celtic. Flagons of Guinness, hearty Irish eats, and a sheep or two add color to this family-friendly homage to the land of plaid. More information (March 7-8; Fairplex in Pomona) 
   
   MUSIC: Anonymous 4 
   
   The downtown landmark is the setting for a de facto commemoration of the April ceasefire that ended the Civil War 150 years ago. The choral quartet revives American songs from the period, accompanied by Bruce Molsky, “the Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddle.” More information (March 7; Bradbury Building) 
   
   BOOKS: I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller 
   
   Miriam Linna and Randell Fuller will sign copies of their new book I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller, which chronicles the life and death of Bobby Fuller who recorded his iconic version of the song “I Fought The Law” only a few months prior to his mysterious death. More information (March 7; La Luz de Jesus Gallery)
target: – You've probably heard the song—"I Fought the Law"—but maybe not the story of the singer who made it famous in 1966. Bobby Fuller had just struck it big with his cover of the song when his body was found in a parked car. The 23-year-old had died of asphyxiation, his body doused in gasoline and seemingly beaten, recounts the Los Angeles Times; he reportedly died due to inhaled gasoline. It was officially ruled a suicide, and now a new biography of Fuller co-written by his brother revisits the case, which the LAT calls "one of rock's strangest deaths." Randy Fuller, who played in Bobby's band, never believed the suicide story, and few others who knew him well did, either. The LAT says various theories, including one involving the mob, have surfaced over the ensuing decades without verification. ("Who would pour gas on himself in a hot car?" Randy Fuller said in 1998. “I just think he got in a bad situation that night, met the wrong dude and couldn't get out of it.") The book, I Fought The Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller apparently doesn't try to solve the mystery as much as resurrect it. Fuller died just a few months after recording his big hit, notes LA Magazine. (Click for more unsolved Hollywood mysteries.)