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Who read The Murder of Bob Crane:Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?

posted 8 years ago by jefgg
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I read the book "The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?" many years ago. Has anyone else read it? The police had a list of about a half dozen suspects. I think that is normal for a murder investigation. John Henry Carpenter was the prime suspect. Actress Victoria Ann Berry was a suspect. She was Crane's costar in the play "Beginner's Luck". She found his body in his apartment after he failed to show up for a lunch meeting. Richard Dawson was a suspect at the bottom of the list. I don't think anyone seriously thought Dawson had anything to do with the murder. Does anyone know who the other suspects were?

[–] ebhaynz (3528) 5 years ago

The only true suspect was John Carpenter but Bob's first son(Robert David Crane) says he equally suspects Bob's 2nd wife Sigrid Valdis, because she unexpectedly showed up at Bob's apartment 10 days before the murder..possibly casing the joint lol?
But really John Carpenter is almost certainly the killer; the missing tripod, the blood stain on the curtain, the brain matter in the rental car, him telling the rental car people to thoroughly wash the car, his suspicious behavior shortly after the murder, his Richard Dawson connection..him not going to the funeral..it all adds up to John Carpenter.
And Wow, I can see how this was a prosecuting attorney's worst nightmare..a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to John Carpenter but all he and his defense attorney have to do is throw up their arms and say "Every man in Arizona/California is a suspect!"