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Murder of Hogan’s Heroes Actor Might Be Solved Monday Night
TV Spy ^ | 11/11/16 | Kevin Eck

Posted on 11/14/2016 1:40:55 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

Thirty eight years after Bob Crane was murdered, Phoenix Fox-owned station KSAZ may be able to solve the case on live TV.

Crane was the star of Hogan’s Heroes, a comedy show set in World War II that ran six seasons until 1971. Crane’s friend Bob Carpenter was initially suspected of bludgeoning Crane to death with camera tripod, but he was never convicted.

Now, KSAZ reporter John Hook will reveal the results of his one and half year investigation into the case.

The Fox-owned station says the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office allowed Hook to retest the original blood evidence found in Carpenter’s car the day after the murder. Hook is hoping modern DNA techniques can answer the question of who did it.

KSAZ says the results will be revealed Monday night on its 9 p.m. newscast


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobcrane; celebrity; hollywood; mystery; tv; unhappy; unhappyhomos
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To: dfwgator

Top German brass in show wanted to insure the roles they were playing as Germans never succeeded in their efforts. The top three all had successful 40 yr careers B4 hand, yet these roles defined them. Rare, for 1 in a show, but three of three in the same series...great actors.


81 posted on 11/14/2016 3:15:54 PM PST by Swanks
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To: Gay State Conservative

Leon Askin made it to the ripe old age of 98.

He played the Soviet newscaster in Airplane II who announced that “A Four Alarm fire in Moscow has cleared the way for a glorious new tractor factory.”

He was also great in “One, Two, Three” as a member of the Soviet Trade Delegation, “We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes.”


82 posted on 11/14/2016 3:16:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SoFloFreeper
This tv station reeks of Geraldo’s “Al Capone’s Vault”, but it might be interesting.
I don't agree. Channel 10 has been one of the most truthful here in the Phoenix market. And, John Hook is a straight shooter.
83 posted on 11/14/2016 3:16:34 PM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies-take scalps.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
It has to be Sgt. Shultz, he is the character most like a butler.
84 posted on 11/14/2016 3:17:22 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Trivia: There was a movie that Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin and John Banner all appeared in together, unrelated to Hogan’s Heroes. What was the name of the movie?


85 posted on 11/14/2016 3:21:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: PLMerite
Yes, especially still Bob Crane.

Yes, he's still very dear, most indubitably deceased, quite certainly.

86 posted on 11/14/2016 3:35:03 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
that,,, was hilarious
87 posted on 11/14/2016 3:37:30 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: cherry
I wonder how our parents thought about it...or the people that were slaughtered in the gas chambers...

Neither of my Dad's older brothers served in WW2 because one was 35 when the war started and the other lost an eye as a kid so couldn't serve.My Dad helped design and build missiles for the Navy during the war and so was exempted as an "essential civilian employee".

As a result there were in our households,unlike in most during the 50's and 60's,no war stories told.So I was particularly naive regarding the war.It never occurred to me that it might be controversial or hurtful.

If it had I might not have liked HH as much as I did.I can see how some in this country wouldn't have liked it at all.

88 posted on 11/14/2016 3:42:22 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Uh... I think the implication was that Crane walked among a very deviant, very decadent crowd - one notorious for drug use and erotic violence - and that he paid the price.

(See David Carradine.)


89 posted on 11/14/2016 3:46:42 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Leon Askin, who played Gen. Burkhalter lost his whole family in the holocaust. Most of the Nazis on the show were Jewish. Crane was a sicko, but I still like the show.


90 posted on 11/14/2016 3:52:21 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

From what I’ve read, Crane nailed every secretary colonel klink ever had.


91 posted on 11/14/2016 3:57:17 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: dfwgator
"The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz"

I know of the movie - saw a movie poster for it one time on eBay. Never have seen it - but any movie that features all those guys *and* Elke Sommer as an olympic pole-vaulter... well, that's gotta be worth my time.

92 posted on 11/14/2016 4:01:40 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

LOL!


93 posted on 11/14/2016 4:06:21 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: fhayek
Springtime for Hitler and Germany

Mel Brooks,Zero Mostel,Gene Wilder-All Jews.

94 posted on 11/14/2016 4:12:56 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Charles Martel
Now, Hochstetter... he was the one with a volcanic temper.

For a Gestapo agent, he was actually kind of mild. He never summarily executed anyone.

95 posted on 11/14/2016 4:20:30 PM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: freefdny
Ivan Dixon starred in one of the first stories broadcast on television about the Vietnam War. And he was brilliant.

”The Final War of Olly Winter”

96 posted on 11/14/2016 4:30:02 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: cherry

POW camps and concentration camps are not the same thing.


97 posted on 11/14/2016 4:35:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: right way right
It has to be Sgt. Shultz, he is the character most like a butler.

I think he even dressed as a butler in an episode. There ya go.

98 posted on 11/14/2016 5:22:43 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: cherry

I wonder how our parents thought about it...or the people that were slaughtered in the gas chambers...

but I watched it too....and it was funny..

__________________

My dad who was in the European theater, didn’t watch it. He didn’t object. Just said it was to silly.


99 posted on 11/14/2016 5:33:24 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against whites. Beware.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What’s the verdict?


100 posted on 11/15/2016 5:18:22 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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