On a late-spring night in 1955, the Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas was coming alive with the promise of breaking down racial barriers. But as the city revelled in the excitement, a dark mystery was unfolding.

 

On May 25, 1955, renowned jazz saxophonist, Wardell Gray, who had been scheduled to be a part of the opening night entertainment at the Moulin Rouge, was found dead…his body discarded in the desert, his death shrouded in mystery.

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