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06-11-2011, 10:51 PM
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Re: Bob Crane, Hogan Hero's Actor Death Pictures
During the run of Hogan's Heroes, sitcom costar Richard Dawson introduced Crane (a photography enthusiast) to John Henry Carpenter, who worked with the video department at Sony Electronics and had access to early video tape recorders. In later years, Carpenter photographed some of Crane's sexual escapades with various women. In 1978 Crane was appearing in Scottsdale in his Beginner's Luck production at the Windmill Dinner Theatre. On the night of June 28, 1978, Crane is alleged to have called Carpenter to tell him that their friendship was over. The following day, Crane was discovered bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never found (but was believed to be a camera tripod) at the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona. Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane states that investigators found semen on Crane's dead body, indicating that the murderer may have ejaculated on him after killing him.  According to an episode of A&E's Cold Case Files, police officers who arrived at the scene of the crime noted that Carpenter called the apartment several times and did not seem surprised that the police were there, which raised suspicions. The car Carpenter had rented the previous day was impounded. In it, several blood smears were found that matched Crane's blood type. DNA testing, which might have confirmed whether it was Crane's blood or not, did not exist at that time. Due to insufficient evidence, Maricopa County Attorney Charles F. Hyder declined to file charges. The case was reopened in 1990, 12 years after the murder. A 1978 attempt to test the blood found in the car that Carpenter had rented resulted in a match to Bob Crane's blood type, but it failed to produce any additional results. DNA testing in 1990 could not be completed due to an insufficient remaining sample. The detectives in charge, Barry Vassall and Jim Raines, instead hoped that additional witnesses and a picture of a possible piece of brain tissue found in the rental car[10] (which had been lost since the original investigation) would incriminate Carpenter. He was arrested and held for trial after a preliminary hearing before a Superior Court Judge finding that evidence presented justified a trial by jury. During Carpenter's 1994 trial, defense attorneys attacked the prosecution case as circumstantial and inconclusive. They disputed the claim that the rediscovered photo showed brain tissue, and they noted that authorities did not have the tissue itself. The defense pointed out that Crane had been videotaped and photographed in compromising sexual positions with numerous women, implying that a jealous person or someone fearing blackmail might have been the killer. Carpenter was found not guilty. He maintained his innocence until his death on September 4, 1998, and the murder remains officially unsolved. However, authorities continue to believe that he was the killer, and no other serious suspect has ever been mentioned in the case. In July 1978, Bob Crane was interred in Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, California. More than 20 years later, Crane's family had the actor's remains exhumed and transported about 25 miles southeast, to another cemetery, Westwood Village Memorial Park, located in Westwood.  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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06-12-2011, 12:48 AM
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Re: Bob Crane, Hogan Hero's Actor Death Pictures
Im not sure im guessing he got some kind of sexual satisfaction from that or something hes a fuckin freak if u ask me when i read that i was trippin out too haha hes phsyco
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06-12-2011, 01:35 AM
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Re: Bob Crane, Hogan Hero's Actor Death Pictures
It was called "Auto Focus" (2002) and starred Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. If I remember right, the DVD extras included some crime scene footage.
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