Film Director Murdered And Buried In His Own Bathroom _ The New Detectives

A millionaire filmmaker vanishes. His wife claims he ran off with a younger woman. Five weeks later, police find his body encased in concrete beneath the freshly tiled floor of his own bathroom. The contractor who remodeled it was the last person to see him alive.Al Adamson directed B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including Satan's Sadists and Dracula vs. Frankenstein [citation:1]. In June 1995, the 65-year-old filmmaker disappeared. His wife told friends he had run away with a younger woman. For five weeks, no one questioned the story. Then law enforcement officials discovered his remains beneath the concrete and tile-covered floor of his newly remodeled bathroom [citation:1]. The contractor who had been living in the home and performing the renovations, Fred Fulford, was apprehended at a hotel in Saint Petersburg, Florida [citation:1]. The case was documented in The New Detectives season seven, episode eleven, titled Buried Secrets [citation:1]. Fulford was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. The horror director's final scene was not in a movie. It was under his own bathroom floor.Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the man who made monsters on screen was buried by one in real life.