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An early grave

An early grave

Book 2001

On September 17, 1998, police found Las Vegas gambling magnate Ted Binion lying dead on the floor of his palatial home, an empty bottle of Xanax beside him. The police had been called by Binion's live-in lover, Sandra Murphy, 23, a California girl who had been working in a Vegas strip club when Binion first met her. At first it seemed it was a fatal drug overdose that killed the handsome multi-millionaire. But was it?