Murder at Disneyland

Send us Fan Mail Disneyland is known as "The Happiest Place on Earth," but in 1981, it became the scene of its first homicide. Eighteen-year-old Mel C. Yorba was fatally stabbed during a private event after a confrontation with another guest. What happened afterward sparked decades of speculation. Instead of calling paramedics to the scene, Disney employees transported Yorba to a nearby hospital in an unmarked company van, a decision that led to a wrongful death lawsuit and helped fuel the en...