Both Jenny and her husband, Irvin Roeder, were gunned down during a robbery in June, 1981.
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.
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.
The blonde-banged, dark-browed actress auditioned for the title film role of Lolita (1962) but lost out to Sue Lyon.
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.