Is Diane Linkletter Dead or Still Alive? Diane Linkletter Birthday and Date of Death

Diane Linkletter Death

Diane passed away on October 4, 1969 at the age of 20 in West Hollywood, California, USA. Diane's cause of death was suicide by jumping.

Diane Linkletter Birthday and Date of Death

Diane Linkletter was born on October 31, 1948 and died on October 4, 1969. Diane was 20 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: October 31, 1948
Date of Death: October 4, 1969
Age at Death: 20

Diane Linkletter - Biography

Diane Linkletter was the daughter and youngest child of popular American media personality Art Linkletter, and his wife Lois Foerster. She was 20 years old when she committed suicide in 1969.
At 9 a.m., on October 4, 1969, Linkletter jumped out of a window of her sixth-floor apartment at the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood, California. She was first taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital, and then to Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center where she died of her injuries sustained in the fall. Her death was widely reported in the media at the time. Her father blamed her death on drug use, specifically LSD.

Edward Durston had arrived at 3 a.m., and was in Diane’s apartment at the time of the fall and was the last person known to have seen her alive. Durston said that he had attempted to grab her, but she had jumped over the balcony. Durston was also the last person to see the actress Carol Wayne alive, who disappeared after an argument with him.
The day after her death, Art Linkletter held a press conference where he stated that Diane's death "wasn't a suicide. She was not herself. She was murdered by the people who manufacture and distribute LSD." He also stated that Diane had used LSD in the six months prior to her death and the two discussed a "bum trip" Diane had experienced. Although Linkletter hadn't spoken to Diane in the last 24 hours of her life, he believed that she had taken LSD the night before her death and had experienced another bad trip which caused her to leap to her death.
A police investigation was launched to determine the events surrounding Linkletter's death. Police questioned Edward Durston who was present in Linkletter's apartment the morning of her death. He told police that Linkletter had phoned him the night before her death and "was very upset" and asked him to come over. He went to Linkletter's apartment at around 3 a.m., and the two stayed up all night talking. He claimed that Linkletter's behavior was "extremely emotional, extremely despondent and very irrational at times, in fact most of the time." He said she was also upset over her career and complained that she "could not be her own person."
Based on Edward Durston's account and the toxicology reports, police concluded that Linkletter's death was a suicide caused by her despondent mental state.