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==Death== Within months of "I Fought the Law" becoming a top 10 hit, Fuller was found dead in an automobile parked outside his Hollywood apartment.<ref name="RollingStone2005"/> The Los Angeles deputy medical examiner, Jerry Nelson, performed the autopsy. According to [[Dean Kuipers]]:<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmnYK4rTBA4C&pg=PA41-IA1 |title=SPIN |date=April 1991 |page=41 |access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> "The report states that Bobby's face, chest, and side were covered in '[[petechia|petechial hemorrhages]],' probably caused by gasoline vapors and the summer heat. He found no bruises, no broken bones, no cuts. No evidence of beating." Kuipers further explains that boxes for "accident" and "suicide" were checked, but next to the boxes were question marks. Despite the official cause of death, some commentators believe Fuller was murdered.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lztkuvi7E7YC&pg=PA30 |title=Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses |author=R. Gary Patterson |page=30 |date=2008-06-16 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781439103647 |access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/11/vinylword.joequeenan|title=A Golden Age of One-hit Wonders|last=Queenan|first=Joe|date=April 11, 2008|publisher=guardian.co.uk|access-date=2008-07-26}}</ref> Fuller was buried at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53iA5w5sR8wC&q=tombstone+tourist|title=The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians|author=Scott Stanton|date=September 2, 2003|page=Front cover|publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=9781416595755|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> His death was profiled in a segment of ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]''.<ref name="unsolved">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3GUYwlE4ps |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/h3GUYwlE4ps| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina, Season 6 Episode 2|location=[''sic'', actually Season 14, according to Wikipedia article "[[List of Unsolved Mysteries episodes]]"]|publisher=Spike TV|date=August 17, 2009|access-date=October 22, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> His death was also explored in the May 11, 2015, episode of the [[NPR]] program ''All Things Considered.''<ref>{{cite web|author=Alex Cohen|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/05/11/405955609/new-book-explores-bobby-fullers-mysterious-death|title=New Book Explores Bobby Fuller's Mysterious Death|publisher=NPR.org|date=2015-05-11|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> The program references the book ''I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller'' by [[Miriam Linna]], with contributions by Randy Fuller.<ref>{{cite book|title=I Fought The Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller|author1=Miriam Linna|author2=Randell Fuller|date=February 2, 2015|publisher=Kicks Books |isbn=9781940157115}}</ref> Sometime after the ''Unsolved Mysteries'' segment in question initially aired, the cause of Fuller's death was officially changed from "suicide" to "accident".<ref name="unsolved"/>
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