"He totally shut down the business when it happened," said Spanola. "Pitchmen are always talking. The morning Billy died, he rendered that business speechless." Friday morning Mays' body ...

Billy Mays is gone, but his message will live on. Mays’ family has given permission to air the last two commercials the pitchman with the booming voice made before his June 28 death. The ...

Billy Mays, who elevated the art of the television sales spiel to a fevered pitch, apparently died of a heart attack, Florida authorities said this morning. Preliminary autopsy results show that ...

They shut up. “He was huge in this business ... one that said “Mike” and one that said “In Loving Memory of Billy Mays.” Motosko said even after Mays made it big shilling for Orange ...

On Monday, Billy Mays III (the oldest of the two children he left behind) stopped by his dad’s grave at the Mount Calvary Cemetery and discovered someone who had previously done the same had ...

Billy Mays III remembers developing a special bond with his dad as an adult, in the years before his untimely death Courtesy of Billy Mays III Billy Mays III shared a special bond with his father.

But wait, there’s more. A fan of the late legendary television pitch Billy Mays skipped the flowers during a visit to his gravesite and instead left a bottle of OxiClean — the cleaning product ...

A second autopsy commissioned by the family of infomercial king Billy Mays found that cocaine did not contribute to his death. In a report released Thursday, medical examiner Dr. William Manion ...

Billy Mays dies from heart disease and not head trauma. June 29, 2009 — -- Autopsy results released today indicate that famously bearded TV pitchman Billy Mays' death was not caused by head ...

An official autopsy report released Friday found that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed TV pitchman Billy Mays in June, but his family called the finding ...

151; -- Billy Mays, the loud, fast-talking pitchman who epitomized the infomercial spokesman, died Saturday at his home in Tampa. Mays, who would have turned 51 on July 20, was found by his wife.

TAMPA, Fla. – The family of TV pitchman Billy Mays said they were never aware that he used cocaine or other non-prescription drugs before his death and they were considering whether to have an ...