164: The Murder of Hogan's Heroes Star Bob Crane w/ John Hook - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

By June of 1978, the once massively popular television star Bob Crane (of Hogan's Heroes fame) was relegated to doing dinner theater in Scottsdale, Arizona. In between shows, he and hanger-on John Carpenter spent much of their time trying to pick up women, and Bob would use the latest video technology to film his sexual exploits. When Bob was discovered bludgeoned to death in his apartment on the morning of June 29th, Carpenter almost immediately became the police's primary murder suspect.

My guest, John Hook, is an investigative reporter and award-winning Phoenix news anchor who in 2016 began a quest to have the cold case's remaining blood evidence tested for DNA. He writes about his investigation in his book "Who Killed Bob Crane? The Final Close-Up", and shares some of the details with me on this episode of Most Notorious.

The Who Killed Bob Crane website: https://www.whokilledbobcrane.com/

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Most Notorious Podcast, the 1978 Scottsdale Arizona murder of Hogan's
0:07.7	hero star, Bob Crane.
0:11.6	If it were jealous husband, or jealous boyfriend, there would have been a row.
0:17.0	Their Crane first of all wouldn't have willingly let any man in that he didn't know.
0:21.7	Secondly, there would have been a struggle.
0:25.0	That didn't happen.
0:26.6	Crane was killed in the fetal position, dead asleep.
0:31.2	He was asleep when he was bludgeoned.
0:34.3	So whoever was in that apartment was in there, either willingly from Crane or someone snuck
0:40.6	into the apartment.
0:56.6	Welcome everyone to the Most Notorious Podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes.
1:12.3	I am so pleased to have as my guest today, John Hook.
1:16.6	He has been an investigative journalist for 35 years and is the co-anchor of Fox 10 News
1:25.0	in Phoenix, Arizona.
1:27.5	And he's here to talk about his critically acclaimed book, Who Killed Bob Crane.
1:33.9	Thank you so much for joining me today.
1:35.9	Eric, my pleasure, I appreciate it.
1:38.8	It's a fascinating case.
1:40.0	It's a great true crime story and I love to tell it.
1:45.5	That's great.
1:47.4	So I'm sure we'll get into how you connected with Bob Crane Jr. and how this all began.
1:54.2	But before we talk about that, there may be listeners out there who, for whatever reason,
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