Nancy Spungen Grave — Bensalem, Pennsylvania

Nancy Laura Spungen is buried at King David Memorial Park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania — a suburb of Philadelphia where she was born and raised. Spungen, who was 20 years old at the time of her death, was found stabbed to death in room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City on 12 October 1978. Her boyfriend, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was charged with her murder. He died of a heroin overdose on 2 February 1979, before his case came to trial, and the case was never resolved. The circumstances of her death — whether Vicious killed her, or whether it was accidental, or whether a third party was responsible — have never been definitively established.

Spungen had grown up in a prosperous Philadelphia suburb but had struggled with severe mental illness from childhood, and had gravitated toward the New York punk scene where she became one of the most notorious groupies of the era before her relationship with Vicious became the central fact of her short life. Her mother Deborah Spungen wrote a memoir, And I Don't Want to Live This Life, that provided a detailed account of Nancy's troubled life from her family's perspective and became one of the most important documents of the punk era's human costs.

King David Memorial Park is a Jewish cemetery in Bensalem. Nancy Spungen's grave is visited by fans of the Sex Pistols and of the broader punk era, and by people who find in her story a particular kind of tragic fascination. The grave is simply marked. The Chelsea Hotel in New York City, where she died, is the other primary site associated with her memory.