Somewhere in the night between June 28 and 29, 1967, the car driving Jayne Mansfield, her lawyer, and her children between Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans slid under a tractor trailer on Highway 90 near Slidell and the Rigolets. Jayne, her lawyer, and the driver were killed instantly. Her children were treated at New Orleans’s Charity Hospital and survived with relatively minor injuries. Gruesome rumors arose that Jayne had been decapitated due to blonde hair in crash scene photos. However, Jayne’s embalmer at the Bultman Funeral Home (corner of St. Charles and Louisiana avenues, New Orleans, now a Fresh Market grocery store) confirmed that she had not been. The hair in the photos was her wig. Jayne is pictured in the attached photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive with astronaut Wally Schirra.