"There's trouble in Room 100." Those were the words muttered by a male caller to the man working the front desk of the Chelsea Hotel the morning of October 12, 1978. The "trouble" was that 20-year-old Nancy Spungen was dead in the bathroom from a single stab wound to her abdomen. Multiple people had been in and out of the room throughout the previous night, but only one was considered a suspect: Sid Vicious.
Episode Sources:
“In Search of Sid” - Radio 4 Documentary about Sid Vicious with Jah Wobble
“Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy” dir. Danny Garcia, 2015
“The Not So Lonesome Death of Nancy Spungen” by Ann Louise Bardach, Oct 26, 1978
“Sid: By Those Who Knew Him” - documentary
“My New York: Sid & Nancy” by Reed Tucker, New York Post, Jul 25, 2010
“The Not So Lonesome Death of Nancy Spungen” by Ann Bardach, SoHo Weekly News, Oct 26, 1978
“Nancy and Sid: A punk mystery story” by Deborah Orr, The Independent, Oct 11, 2003
“Sid’s Way: The Life and Death of Sid Vicious” by Keith Bateson & Alan Parker, 1991
“The Day Punk Died” by Karen Schoemer, New York Magazine, October 17, 2008
“1978: Sex Pistol Vicious on murder charge” BBC, Oct 12, 1978
“When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious” by Donna Florio, Literary Hub, Mar 9, 2021
“Who Killed Nancy?” dir. Alan Parker, 2010
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