This feature from Louder revisits the short life and mysterious death of Bobby Fuller, the 1960s rock musician best known for the hit "I Fought the Law" and later cited as an influence on The Clash. Fuller rose to prominence in El Paso, Texas, as a precociously enterprising figure before moving to Los Angeles in pursuit of a bigger career, only to die in disturbing and unexplained circumstances that have never been officially resolved.

In El Paso in the early 1960s, Fuller ran his own club (Bobby Fuller's Teen Rendezvous), fronted his own band The Fanatics, operated a label called Exeter Records and booked tours. By 1965 his ambition took him to Los Angeles, where the band signed to Bob Keane's Del-Fi Records — a figure with reported organised-crime connections — and became The Bobby Fuller Four. The article recounts the grim scene of his death, with dried blood around his mouth, his clothing and hair dishevelled, and his body soaked in gasoline, a case that remains unsolved.