Biografía

Karyn Kupcinet was murdered on Thanksgiving Day, 1963. The crime has never been solved.

Was found strangled in her West Hollywood apartment. Her father, Chicago columnist Irv Kupcinet, believed he knew who did it but could never prove it. Speculation had it even linked to the JFK assassination just days earlier on Friday, November 22, 1963. Mr. Kupcinet called such speculation "an atrocious outrage." He said his daughter didn't know the assassin(s). He said nobody ever told him to back off from investigating the assassination, and his daughter's killer was not part of any plans to silence a journalist.

In 1971, Irv and Essee Kupcinet founded the Karyn Kupcinet International School for Science as part of the Weizmann Institute of Science in their daughter's memory.

Her last on-screen appearance was in the Perry Mason (1957) episode, The Case of the Capering Camera (1964). The episode aired on January 16, 1964, seven weeks after her still-unsolved murder.

Attended Pine Manor College in Wellesley for a semester, then went to study acting at the Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg in New York.