During her childhood, Dominique lived together with her family in this large house in Beverly Hills. It saddened her a lot when her parents had to sell it.

Dominique and John Sweeney rented this house at Rangely Avenue in West Hollywood only a short time after they had begun their relationship. Dominique loved the house because of its yard, large enough for all her pets. The picture shows the house how it looked in 1982.

On the driveway Dominique’s  car, a ‘68 Volkswagen Bug convertible. On September 26, 1982, when Dominique fled the scene after being abused again, she nearly ran over Sweeney as he tried to stop the car, after he had heard Dominique starting the engine. He flung himself on the front of the car when she drove off, but Dominique stopped again and let him jump off before she raced away to the home of a friend.

This picture was taken by the police in the night of October 30. It shows the yard where Dominique was found after being choked. It is actually the back yard of the neighbour’s property, but it could be easily accessed from the driveway of Dominique’s house. Sweeney dragged her all the way up to this place and strangled her obviously for four minutes or more.

Dominique’s parents in the courtroom at the murder trial in September 1983. To attend every session of the trial was “the last business of our daughter’s life”, Dominick Dunne said later.

To see pictures of John Sweeney at the trial, click here.

Dominique’s grave at the Pierce Bros. Westwood Memorial Park. Not far away are the graves of actress Natalie Wood, who was a friend of her family, and of Heather O’Rourke who co-starred as her younger sister Carol Anne in ‘Poltergeist’ and who died in 1988, being only 12 years old.

R.I.P.