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On Saturday, April 2, Rapp checked into the Yacht Club Motel in Quartzsite, Arizona, a small town 165 miles (266 km) west of Phoenix and just east of the California border. He was seen on Saturday drinking heavily in the Jigsaw, one of the two bars in town. Sometime over the weekend, he bought a .25-caliber automatic from a private individual.
Rapp's body was found in his hotel room on Sunday, April 3, 1983, with a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the right side of the head. He was about a month short of his 42nd birthday. and was survived by his two sons Francis (Frank/Frankie) Rapp-Romolini & Alexander (Alex) Rapp-Romolini, grandson Christopher, his sisters Mabel, Cass and Estelle, brothers Robert and Bill, and numerous nieces and nephews.
