- Los Angeles criminal attorney Ervin M. "Tip" Roeder, 60, and his wife, Jennifer Maxwell, 39, were killed by gunfire in an apparent robbery attempt as they entered their apartment lobby near the Beverly Hills-Los Angeles boundary on Wednesday afternoon, June 10, 1981.
- Young, provocative ingénue of late 50s and early 60s featherweight films, she is probably best-remembered for her role in the Elvis Presley flick Blue Hawaii (1961), in which she played spoiled party-girl Ellie Corbett whom Elvis eventually tames by spanking her on the beach.
- The blonde-banged, dark-browed actress auditioned for the title film role of Lolita (1962) but lost out to Sue Lyon.
- Her first husband, associate producer and production manager Paul Rapp, is the son of radio's "The Battling Bickersons" and TV's "Topper" comedy writer Philip Rapp and younger brother of comedy writer Joel Rapp. Following their January 1963 divorce, she was to lose custody of their son Brian, but regained partial custody in the late 1960s.
- Her husband, Ervin ("Tip") Roeder was an attorney. One of his clients was actor Nick Adams. Nick allegedly committed suicide in 1968, but Tip and others felt he was murdered and was involved in trying to find out the truth as to the cause of Adams' death. A little over a decade after Jenny and her husband were brutally slain, writer John Austin, in his 1992 book More Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries, accused Ervin of murdering Adams after Nick discovered that Roeder was misappropriating the actor's money. The writer, however, cited no sources for these surprising allegations.
- Second husband, Ervin "Tip" Roeder, was a Hollywood lawyer and business manager over 20 years her senior who had five children from a previous marriage. Married in 1970, Roeder found the body of one of his clients Nick Adams, who died from a 1968 drug overdose in his bedroom. A shady character who hung out with mobster types, one murder theory is that Jenny, estranged from Tip at this time, may have been the victim of a mob hit set up by her husband as opposed to a botched robbery. Only to have been wounded in the attack to avoid suspicion, Tip died later from his stomach wound. Jenny died instantly from her head wound.
- Son, Brian Gregory Rapp, was born July 28, 1960, in Los Angeles. Child's father was her ex-husband, Paul Rapp.
- Her idol was Audrey Hepburn.
- 1960 Deb Star.
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