The Death of Actor Bob Crane

Mysterious Circumstances

Age Of Radio + Bleav

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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***Originally recorded on July 31st, 2016***……In June 1978, Crane was living in the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona. On the afternoon of June 29, Crane’s co-star Victoria Ann Berry entered his apartment after he failed to show up for a lunch meeting and discovered his body. Crane had been bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never identified, though investigators believed it to be a camera tripod. An electrical cord had been tied around his neck.
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0:00.0	Mysterious Circumstances is an American crime cast production.
0:05.0	Remember, everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And then Hey everybody this is Justin welcome to mysterious circumstances
0:37.5	podcast got a really really good show for
0:45.0	being being in the actor Bob Crane who is famous for
0:48.0	being in the TV show Hogan's Heroes
0:51.0	when that was on I believe it ran from 1965 to 1971. His death is
0:57.0	actually still considered unsolved. I honestly thought this was always an open and shut case and for some odd reason they had found
1:06.4	him innocent and after looking into it I'm not a hundred percent convinced in all honesty that he was actually guilty of this because this is a pretty pretty odd case
1:19.0	As I said earlier actor Bob Crane a little bit of background on Bob he was born on July 13th
1:27.5	1928 waterbury Connecticut but Bob originally actually was a huge music lover. He started out playing drums at about
1:38.5	the age 11 and was actually extremely extremely talented in it and that's what he actually wanted to do.
1:45.6	He wanted to play in big bands.
1:48.9	Now by the time he got to the age where he could actually play in some big bands they were kind of
1:53.4	dying out a little bit so he turned his attention to being a radio disc jockey in
1:58.5	which he was phenomenal at it the guy had so much, he was very quick-witted, very awesome guy all around.
2:07.1	He married his high school sweetheart by the name of Anne in 1949 and just started getting his wheels going in the
2:16.6	disc jockey business in about 1950. Now by about the early 60s he had moved out to LA to do radio disc jockey and out there.
2:27.4	He actually was very famous out there for being a disc jockey. He interviewed a lot of famous people.
2:34.8	Like I said, the guy was extremely charismatic and quick-witted and very funny, so
2:39.8	he gained steam very, very quickly, and eventually ended up getting into acting.
2:46.0	His acting career, you know, was here and there. He had some bit parts, but he really hit, really hit steam when Hogan's Heroes started running which if you're not a if you don't know what Hogan's Heroes is
2:59.1	It's actually a pretty funny show. It's a comedy based in a German POW camp at first a lot of places
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