Veteran Actor Found Stabbed To Death In Front Yard After Chilling 9-1-1 Confession

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A shocking story out of Los Angeles, 81-year-old beloved actor James Handy was found with stab wounds to his chest after police received an eerie 9-1-1 call. Police say the caller was the son of Handy’s girlfriend who was living with the actor, 44-year-old Michael Gledhill. Wait until you hear what Gledhill told police, as investigators try to piece together the motive behind the brazen early morning attack, that left a man with more than 150 acting credits and a decades long career, dead on his own front lawn.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Hey there, folks.
0:07.1	It is Friday, June 5th, and a developing story out of Southern California, where an actor,
0:13.1	a longtime actor and a familiar face to so many TV and movie watchers has been stabbed to death at the age of 81.
0:23.9	Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs. It's a name that people won't come up with
0:30.2	immediately, but it's a face you'll immediately recognize. Yes, and it's a warm face that
0:35.4	brings a smile to yours.
0:39.6	81-year-old James Handy.
0:41.2	Google the name.
0:42.4	You'll see his face. And you'll say, oh, my God.
0:44.4	I have seen him for my entire life on the small screen, on the big screen, playing.
0:50.8	It seemed like a cop, a detective.
0:53.5	He was an exterminator. He was a bartender. He was a detective. He was an exterminator.
0:55.3	He was a bartender.
0:56.4	He was a politician.
0:57.3	He was a, he was great.
0:58.4	Like an every man's guy.
1:00.5	But he was always this older, grandfatherly guy.
1:04.6	Like that was always the persona that he embodied.
1:08.6	But yeah, you mentioned he was found stabbed to death at the age of 81.
1:12.9	But get this, in his own damn front yard.
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