It especially highlights the systemic failures that gave John Sweeney, the man who murdered Dominique Dunne, a sentence too lenient for her murder. Much time has passed since John Sweeney was ...

Dunne’s daughter Dominique was a 22-year-old rising actor fresh off a lead role in 1982’s “Poltergeist.” She was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney after their breakup on Oct.

has nothing to do with the Menendez case—but rather the trial of John Thomas Sweeney, who murdered his daughter, Dominique Dunne in October 1982. "Do you know she tried to help make a plea deal ...

It’s also a trial that earned significant media attention a decade earlier. Dunne’s daughter Dominique was a 22-year-old rising actor fresh off a lead role in 1982’s “Poltergeist.” She was strangled ...

Her final acting role was in the 1983 miniseries V. On October 30, 1982, Dominique Dunne was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, at her West Hollywood home. That day, she was rehearsing ...

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Dominique, 22, was a promising actress ... The man was later identified as the same John Sweeney. His son Griffin Dunne contacted the woman and asked her to break off the engagement.

Dominque Dunne was murdered in the driveway ... never maximized because her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney killed her on October ...