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Jerry Lee Lewis is Suspected of Killing Two of His Wives

Musician Jerry Lee Lewis. Credit: The New York Times

Musician Jerry Lee Lewis is remembered as being a rock-and-roll star of the 1950’s, most famous for his song “Great Balls of Fire”. Throughout his lifetime, Jerry Lee Lewis used a lot of drugs and alcohol. He was known to be a violent person. One time, he nearly strangled a High School teacher to death. He ruined his reputation when he married a 13-year old girl who also happened to be his first cousin.

Throughout his life, he was married a total of 7 times, and two of those wives died under mysterious circumstances. Lewis was even given the nickname “The Killer”, because he very well may have been a murderer. But it didn’t stop there. In 1976, he “accidentally” shot his bass player, Butch Owens.

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