Porn-Making Brother Killer Jim Mitchell Dies
Jim Mitchell, whose obituary notes that he both made the legendary porn movie "Behind the Green Door" and shot his brother to death 16 years ago, died of a heart attack. Our colleague John Simerman has a great, colorful piece in the San Jose Mercury News.
It's not often you read a story with a phrase like this:
It was a quiet ending to what once was a wild life of sex, drugs, porn film-making, strip shows, scores of arrests for obscenity and, in 1991, a Cain-and-Abel-style killing that opened the courtroom curtain to their brash lifestyle and sent Jim Mitchell to prison for three years on a conviction for involuntary manslaughter.
Simerman goes onto note that the judge likened Jim to Travis Bickle after he offed his "younger, crazier and sexually voracious brother."
