Carter Roy

She and Lana referred to the event as the paragraph, since any article about them included at least one paragraph about it.

And some of these paragraphs raised an important question.

How did a 14-year-old manage to knife down an ex-Marine mafioso?

Well, perhaps she didn't.

Maybe her mom.

On April 4th, 1958, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane overheard mobster Johnny Stompanato abusing her mother, Lana Turner.

After an hour with no end in sight, Cheryl needed to protect her mom.

She grabbed a knife and fatally stabbed Johnny in the abdomen.

At least, that's the story both women told Police Chief Clinton Anderson when he brought them in for questioning on the night of Johnny's death.

But according to the book, A Murder in Hollywood by Casey Sherman, Lana didn't want Chief Anderson to question her daughter at all.

She nervously ordered him to only talk to her.

Alana would tell him everything he needed to know.

Chief Anderson insisted that he needed Cheryl's testimony.

So Alana acquiesced, but not quietly.

At one point, when Cheryl was telling Chief Anderson about stabbing Johnny, Alana interrupted, adding that she didn't know what was happening.

Perhaps it was just her nerves getting to her.

She likely hated seeing her daughter go through this terrifying ordeal.

Or perhaps she wanted to make sure it was on the record that she wasn't involved, just in case this testimony was leaked to the press.

In the end, both mother and daughter's testimonies matched up perfectly.

Case closed.