Despite having a successful career in Hollywood spanning a decade, 34-year-old Claudine Longet turned murderer in 1976 after she shot her boyfriend and Olympic skier, Peter Sabich. Yet, she got a sentencing so lenient that it felt like a public slap.
The murder of Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, a famous alpine ski racer from California, is a tragedy that demands scrutiny, not sensationalism. On March 21, 1976, in Sabich and Longet’s Aspen, Colorado home, the 31-year-old Olympian was shot with a single bullet to his abdomen and died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital.
