The revelation comes from Steve Dior on postchronicle.com. Dior briefly played with Vicious in a band called The Idols.

"This guy's fingerprints were on the knife, but New York Police didn't want to get into it. It was a case closed if they pinned it on Sid, they didn't care if Sid Vicious went to prison. I'm trying to tell more people about it." - here we thought Courtney Love had something to do with it. more on this story