A Tennis Tragedy: The Murder of Andrea Buchanan

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It was her smile, everyone said, that was the first thing you noticed about Andrea Buchanan. People called her "Miss Personality," and spoke of her as being a “free spirit with much energy and vitality.” Andrea was a rising professional tennis star who was murdered, at age 26, while she was working in a restaurant in Los Angeles. Here's what happened.

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1:13.4	Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.
1:15.9	Like the time I stole a girl's phone during a sudden, she dumped on stage and threw a big haymaker punch to my nose.
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1:30.6	I'm ready to fight.
1:31.8	Oh, this is fighting worse.
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