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obert Edward Crane (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American disc jockey and actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971.
Crane was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated from high school in 1946 and became a drummer, performing with dance bands and a symphony orchestra. In 1949, he married high school sweetheart Anne Terzian; they eventually had three children, Deborah Ann, Karen Leslie, and Robert David (known as "Bob, Jr.").
And how did he die? by Cyn
Crane was discovered violently bludgeoned to death with a video camera tripod at the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he had been appearing in a dinner theatre production of a play entitled Beginner's Luck at the Windmill Dinner Theatre. by tweedy.
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During the run of Hogan's Heroes, Crane met John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert who was involved with the development of the VCR. Carpenter is alleged by some to have lured Crane into a life of sexual decadence. Although Crane's family contests this version of the story, it is a fact that Crane made home videotapes of numerous sexual orgies, using video technology supplied by Carpenter, with Carpenter also usually participating in the orgies. Crane is known to have made pornographic films as early as 1956, so Carpenter at worst was an enabler of Crane's addiction rather than an original corrupter.[citation needed]
For several years Crane led an increasingly dissolute life which affected his public image and his ability to get steady work. Finally, one late night in 1978, Crane allegedly called Carpenter to tell him that their friendship was over. The following day, Crane was discovered violently bludgeoned to death with a video camera tripod at the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he had been appearing in a dinner theatre production of a play entitled Beginner's Luck at the Windmill Dinner Theatre.
According to an A&E program on the subject, initial police investigation turned up few clues but a large number of suspects, due to the dozens of homemade pornographic videos found at the murder scene. Countless female participants and their spouses were questioned. Although Carpenter was the prime suspect, he wasn't arrested until 1992 - fourteen years after the murder. During Carpenter's trial in 1994, the prosecution showed videotape of Crane and Carpenter engaging in sex with the same woman to demonstrate their close relationship and hopefully shock the jury into convicting Carpenter. But the strategy backfired, and Carpenter was acquitted. Both the murder and the motive remain unsolved. Carpenter maintained his innocence and continued to hope for a solution to Crane's murder until his death on September 4 1998.
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well done. one of my favorite hollywood murder mysteries by Cyn
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Bob Crane (July 13 1928 – June 29 1978) was an American disc jockey and actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971.
Crane was born Robert Edward Crane in Waterbury, Connecticut. He dropped out of high school and became a drummer, performing with dance bands and a symphony orchestra. In 1949, he married high school sweetheart Anne Terzian; they eventually had three children, Deborah Ann, Karen Leslie, and Robert David, who referred to himself as "Bob, Jr." despite having a different middle name.
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