Hollywood TV Honcho Found Dead

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hollywood director, Barry Crane, who directed hit shows “The Incredible Hulk,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “The Six Million Dollar Man,” was found dead in the garage of his luxury Hollywood home in 1985. Investigators say they found his killer across the country in North Carolina, more than 30 years later. AND Nicholas Gibson, who has been in and out of prison since the age of 13, is arrested for the murder of 77-year-old Eric Stocker in Florida. Now police need to find out if they have a serial killer in custody. Nancy' Expert Panel Weighs In: Sheryl McCollum: Director, Cold Case Research Institute Wendy Patrick: Trial Attorney Dr. Michelle Dupree: Medical Examiner Caryn Stark: Psychologist Judge Ashley Wilcott: Judge & Trial Attorney Dr. Jolie Silva: Clinical and forensic psychologist Joseph Scott Morgan: Forensics expert Ellen Killoran: Crime online investigative Reporter John Lemley: Crimeoneline.com investigative reporter

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0:00.0	This guy with a long great beard has just been charged with the murder of a top Hollywood
0:15.4	TV director, a cold case that has baffled cops for 35 years.
0:20.2	Could you have done this murder though?
0:22.2	It's possible.
0:23.2	Anything's possible.
0:24.2	The murder victim, Barry Crane, directed some of television's most iconic shows in the
0:29.1	1970s and 80s.
0:32.9	Dallas.
0:34.9	Hawaii 5.0.
0:38.2	Mission impossible.
0:41.6	Wonder Woman.
0:42.6	And many of his other shows are still in reruns to this day.
0:46.0	The 57 year old director was found by a housekeeper dead in his garage in his studio city townhouse
0:51.2	north of Los Angeles.
0:53.0	He was naked and wrapped in blankets.
0:55.2	He'd been bludgeoned by a large ceramic statue and been strangled with a telephone cord.
0:59.9	And there was evidence inside that a struggle had taken place.
1:03.8	Man, what a way to go.
1:05.8	This iconic director.
1:07.8	Did you hear those same songs Wonder Woman?
1:11.2	All the great hits of that era, he was the director and he's found a strangled dead,
1:18.4	naked and wrapped up.
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