... in 1958, screen goddess Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter was prosecuted for murder. Turner testified that her boyfriend at the time, Johnny Stompanato, was beating her and when her daughter (Cheryl Crane) tried to intervene, Stompanato was stabbed. In the end, the incident was ruled a justifiable homicide, but not before witnesses claimed that Turner's testimony was the acting performance of her life.
