The Crosby Boys — a singing quartet consisting of Lindsay and his elder brothers Gary, Dennis, and Phillip Crosby — disbanded after Lindsay suffered a nervous breakdown in July of 1962. Finding limited success in other ventures, he had a tumultuous personal life himself, marrying three times and having five children.
Unable to find a steady manner of supporting his third wife Susan Marlin and his family, he became reliant on other sources. According to AP News, mother Dixie Lee Crosby had ensured that her sons would be financially secure through "investments in crude oil." On November 30, 1989, the Crosby brothers learned that this source of money had dried up. The long-suffering Lindsay, who had battled bitter divorces, drinking problems, and his own mental health, couldn't accept this.
On December 11 that year, at the age of just 51, he died from a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at his home in Calabasas. This crisis rocked the family to its core. Dennis Crosby, stricken by his brother's death, took his own life at his own home just two years later, AP news reports, shooting himself with a shotgun.
Sadly, tragedy seemed to run in the family. Lindsay's mother, Dixie Lee, passed away years earlier, at just age 42, from ovarian cancer, after reportedly suffering from alcoholism and poor mental health herself. This experience surely also contributed to Lindsay's mental anguish.
If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
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