I read a review recently that he was a thug in real life.
His wife was having an affair with George Reeves when Reeves was killed, and the studio head set up the crime scene to look like suicide. The review said Reeves was probably shot by another woman he was having an affair with, but the studio head didn't want his wife brought into it.
Also set up the crime scene of Thelma Todd's death to look like suicide.
***George Reeves***
Is his body still on ice or did they finally bury it?
#3 Interesting story about George Reeves
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/nov/18/features.weekend1
Toni probably had Sunset Boulevard in mind when she, like Norma Desmond, gave George a pocketwatch inscribed with the legend “Mad About The Boy”. And he was a very kept boy - house, car, clothes, furniture, vacations: Toni Mannix owned George Reeves, lock, stock and barrel-chest. But it was a loving relationship conducted in the full expectation of marriage once the ailing Eddie finally succumbed to one of his frequent heart attacks. Their house on Benedict Canyon Drive was always full of their friends, the drink flowed freely from breakfast-time onwards, and even Eddie was known to show up and grunt his way through the occasional barbecue.