Christa Helm

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Christa Helm (born November 11, 1949 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † February 12, 1977 in Los Angeles ; born Sandra Lynn Wohlfeil ) was an American actress .

Live and act

Christa Helm was born on November 11, 1949, the eldest of three daughters of the married couple Harry and Dolores Wohlfeil. The parents divorced three years after Helm's birth.

In 1967, Christa Helm became pregnant at the age of 17. She married the child's father in a so-called mandatory marriage, but did not live with him. A few months later, the daughter Nicole was born and the father died shortly after the birth in a motorcycle accident.

After the birth of their daughter, Helm started working as a waitress. In the early 1970s, Helm left her child in the care of a friend and moved to New York to pursue an acting career. There she quickly found access to higher social circles and made the acquaintance of famous personalities.

In 1972 Helm played a small role in the feature film Legacy of Satan , which, however, was not released until two years later. In 1973, producer Stuart Duncan gave her the lead role in the film Let's Go for Broke by director Gerard Damiano , which premiered in 1974 and proved to be a flop. Unimpressed by this, Helm moved to Hollywood a few months later, where she played small roles in the television series Starsky & Hutch and Wonder Woman .

On February 12, 1977, Christa Helm was stabbed to death in front of her agent's home in Los Angeles. The perpetrator has not been convicted to date.

The murder of Christa Helm took place exactly one year to the day after the murder of the actor Sal Mineo in the same area and was carried out in a similar way, which is why the police temporarily suspected the same perpetrator. However, this assumption could not be confirmed. Even today, the circumstances that led to Helm's assassination remain the subject of much speculation. At the center of the speculation is the claim that Helm kept a diary of their acquaintances and recorded the encounters on tape.

Filmography

  • 1974: Legacy of Satan
  • 1974: Let's Go for Broke (as Christ Helm )
  • 1976: Starsky & Hutch (TV series, episode 1x17, no parole for the helper )
  • 1976: Wonder Woman (TV series, episode 1x04 Beauty on Parade )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Steve Thompson and John O'Dowd: The Unsolved Murder of 1970′s Hollywood Starlet Christa Helm. In: john-odowd.com. 2007, accessed June 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d The Last Take. CBS , October 3, 2008, accessed June 24, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Release Info for Legacy of Satan (1974). IMDb , accessed June 24, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Helm, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clements, Sandra Lynn (real name); Wohlfeil, Sandra Lynn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1977
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States