Editing Bob Crane (section)

==Private life and murder==
Crane frequently videotaped and photographed his own sexual escapades.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Paul |date=April 21, 1993 |title=THE BOB CRANE MURDER CASE PART ONE |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1993-04-21/news/the-bob-crane-murder-case-part-one/2/ |access-date=December 15, 2012 |publisher=Phoenix New Times |page=2}}</ref> During the run of ''Hogan'', Dawson introduced Crane to [[John Henry Carpenter]], a regional sales manager for [[Sony Electronics]] who often helped famous clients with their video equipment.<ref>{{harv|Katz|2010|p=288}}</ref> The two men struck up a friendship and began visiting bars and nightclubs together. Crane attracted many women due to his celebrity status, and he introduced Carpenter to them as his manager. The two men videotaped their joint sexual encounters.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kim |first=Eun-Kyung |date=November 1, 1994 |title=Crane's friend acquitted |page=A–8 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XLJRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6925,36069&dq=bob+crane+carpenter+friendship&hl=en |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> Crane's son Scotty later insisted that all of the women were aware of the videotaping and consented to it, but several claimed that they had no idea that they had been recorded until they were informed by Scottsdale police after Crane's murder.<ref name="sfweekly">{{Cite web |last=Wilonsky |first=Robert |date=July 18, 2001 |title=Klinky Sex |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2001-07-18/culture/klinky-sex/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223233305/http://www.sfweekly.com/2001-07-18/culture/klinky-sex/ |archive-date=December 23, 2010 |access-date=December 15, 2012 |publisher=sfweekly.com}}</ref> During their friendship, Carpenter became national sales manager at the consumer electronics company [[Akai]] and arranged his business trips to coincide with Crane's touring schedule, allowing the two to continue videotaping their sexual encounters.<ref>{{harv|Katz|2010|p=289}}</ref>

[[File:Scottsdale-Winfield Aparments No.132A-1970-Bob Crane-1.JPG|thumb|250px|Apartment 132A of the Winfield Place Apartments (now condominiums) where Crane was murdered]]
[[File:Scottsdale-Winfield Aparments No.132A-1970-Bob Crane-2.JPG|thumb|250px|A funeral wreath on the door of apartment 132A]]
[[File:Bob Crane grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, California.JPG|thumb|Crane and Valdis' gravestone, bearing their portraits and the banner "Hogan and Hilda, Together Forever"]]
In June 1978, Crane was living in the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale during a run of ''Beginner's Luck'' at the Windmill Dinner Theatre. On the afternoon of June 29, his co-star Victoria Ann Berry entered his apartment after he failed to show up for a lunch meeting, and discovered his body.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-la-crosse-tribune-actor-bob-crane-be/139202222/ |title=Actor Bob Crane Beaten To Death |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[La Crosse Tribune]] |location=[[La Crosse, Wisconsin]] |page=5 |date=July 30, 1978 |accessdate=January 20, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kim |first=Eun-Kyung |date=September 13, 1994 |title=Trial reruns TV star's love life |page=A–8 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z8haAAAAIBAJ&pg=2601,7522791&dq=bob+crane+bludgeoned+tripod&hl=en |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref>

Crane's funeral was held on July 5, 1978 at [[St. Paul the Apostle Church and School|St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church]] in [[Westwood, Los Angeles]]. An estimated 200 family members and friends attended, including [[John Astin]], Astin's wife [[Patty Duke]] and [[Carroll O'Connor]]. Pallbearers included ''Hogan'' producer Edward Feldman, co-stars [[Robert Clary]] and [[Larry Hovis]], and Crane's son Scotty. He was interred in [[Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Chatsworth, Los Angeles|Chatsworth, California]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 6, 1978 |title=Family, friend mourn Crane |page=6 |work=Kingman Daily Miner |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TvNSAAAAIBAJ&pg=4255,7236148&dq=bob+crane+westwood+burial&hl=en |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> Olson later had his remains relocated to [[Westwood Village Memorial Park]] in Westwood, and she was buried beside him in 2007 under her stage name of Sigrid Valdis.<ref>Bob Crane Biography. [http://www.biography.com/people/bob-crane-9542342 biography.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027075953/http://www.biography.com/people/bob-crane-9542342 |date=October 27, 2015 }}, retrieved November 3, 2015.</ref>

===Investigation===
Scottsdale police had no homicide division in 1978, so it was ill-equipped to handle such a high-profile murder investigation. The crime scene yielded few clues; no evidence was found of forced entry, and nothing of value was missing. Detectives examined Crane's extensive videotape collection, which led them to Carpenter, who had flown to [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] on June 25 to spend a few days with Crane. Carpenter's rental car was impounded and searched. Several blood smears were found that matched Crane's blood type; no one else of that blood type was known to have been in the car, including Carpenter. [[DNA testing]] was not yet available, and the [[Maricopa County, Arizona|Maricopa County]] District Attorney declined to file charges.<ref name=two/>

In 1990, Scottsdale police investigator Barry Vassall and Maricopa County Attorney's Office investigator Jim Raines<ref name="three" /> re-examined the evidence from 1978 and persuaded the county attorney to reopen the case.<ref name="bulletin">{{Cite news |date=March 12, 1993 |title=Crane case to go forward |work=The Bulletin |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e45TAAAAIBAJ&pg=3759,5008597&dq=bob+crane+john+henry+carpenter+sex&hl=en |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> DNA testing was inconclusive on the blood found in Carpenter's rental car, but Raines did discover an evidence photograph of the car's interior that appeared to show a piece of brain tissue. The actual tissue samples recovered from the car had been lost, but an Arizona judge ruled that the new evidence was admissible.<ref name=bulletin/> In June 1992, Carpenter was arrested and charged with Crane's murder.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 8, 2008 |title=How did Bob Crane die, anyway? |url=http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbobcrane.html |access-date=December 15, 2012 |publisher=straightdope.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Balazs |first=Diana |date=September 12, 1998 |title=Suspect in killing of 'Hogan's Heroes' actor Bob Crane |page=A–12 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XoRIAAAAIBAJ&pg=5427,579515&dq=bob+crane+john+henry+carpenter+sex&hl=en |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref>

===Trial===
At the 1994 trial, Crane's son Scotty testified that Crane had repeatedly expressed a desire to terminate his friendship with Carpenter in the weeks before his death. He said that Carpenter had become "a hanger-on" and "a nuisance to the point of being obnoxious."<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 4, 1994 |title=Bob Crane's son testifies in trial |page=A–2 |work=The Telegraph |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XqJdAAAAIBAJ&pg=2022,5749978&dq=bob+crane+john+henry+carpenter+son&hl=en |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> "My dad expressed that he just didn't need Carpenter kind of hanging around him anymore," he said.<ref name=two/> Scotty further testified that Crane had called Carpenter the night before the murder to end their friendship.<ref name="philbin">Philbin, Tom (2012). ''The Killer Book of Cold Cases: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time''. Sourcebooks, Inc. {{ISBN|1-402-25356-7}} p. 191</ref>

Carpenter's attorneys attacked the [[prosecution]]'s case as circumstantial and inconclusive. They presented evidence that Carpenter and Crane were still on good terms, including witnesses from the restaurant where the two men had dined the evening before the murder. They noted that the murder weapon had never been identified or found; the prosecution's camera tripod theory was sheer speculation, they said, based solely on Carpenter's occupation. They disputed the claim that the newly discovered evidence photo showed brain tissue, and alleged that the police work had been sloppy, such as the mishandling and misplacing of evidence—including the crucial tissue sample itself.<ref name="three">Rubin, P. (May 5, 1993). The Bob Crane Murder Case, Part Three. [http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/film/the-bob-crane-murder-case-part-three-6425779 ''Phoenix New Times'' archive], retrieved November 4, 2015.</ref> They pointed out that Crane had been videotaped and photographed in sexual relations with numerous women, implying that any one of them might have been the killer.<ref name=philbin/> Other potential suspects proposed by Carpenter's attorneys included angry husbands and boyfriends of the women, and an actor who had sworn vengeance after a violent argument with Crane in [[Texas]] several months earlier.<ref name="two">Rubin, P. (April 28, 1993). The Bob Crane Murder Case, Part Two. [http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-bob-crane-murder-case-part-two-6425966 ''Phoenix New Times'' archive], retrieved November 3, 2015.</ref>

Carpenter was [[acquittal|acquitted]],<ref>{{Cite news |title=Actor Bob Crane died a gruesome death. Anchor's book takes another look |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/13/new-book-actor-bob-cranes-bloody-murder/99145724/ |access-date=May 4, 2018 |work=USA Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=France |first=Lisa Respers |title=We still don't know who killed Bob Crane |url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/entertainment/bob-crane-murder/index.html |access-date=May 4, 2018 |website=CNN|date=November 14, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cold Case: Bob Crane's Secret Life Implicated |url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Hogans-Heroes-Bob-Crane-Murder-Cold-Case-Hollywood-Star-Kept-Secret-Celebutantes-Now-Flaunt-150263225.html |access-date=May 4, 2018 |website=NBC Los Angeles|date=May 5, 2012 }}</ref> and he continued to maintain his innocence until his death in 1998.<ref name="Newton">Newton, Michael (2009). ''The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes'' (2nd ed.). Infobase Publishing. {{ISBN|0-8160-7818-1}}</ref> 

After the trial, Crane's son Robert David speculated publicly that Patricia Olson might have had a role in instigating the crime. "Nobody got a dime out of [the murder]," he said, "except for one person," alluding to Crane's [[will and testament|will]], which left his entire estate to Olson while excluding him, his siblings and his mother. Robert David repeated his suspicions in the 2015 book ''Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder''.<ref>Crane R, Fryer C. ''Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder''. University Press of Kentucky (2015), pp. 200–209. {{ISBN|081316074X}}</ref> Maricopa County District Attorney [[Rick Romley]] responded, "We never characterized Patty as a suspect," adding, "I am convinced John Carpenter murdered Bob Crane."<ref name=people/> Officially, Crane's murder remains unsolved.<ref name=Newton/>

===Later DNA testing===
In November 2016, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office permitted Phoenix television reporter John Hook to submit the 1978 blood samples from Carpenter's rental car for retesting, using a more advanced DNA technique than the one used in 1990.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kimball |first=Lindsay |date=November 15, 2016 |title=New DNA Evidence Proves ''Hogan's Heroes'' Star Bob Crane's Murderer Is Still Unknown |url=http://people.com/crime/bob-crane-murder-new-dna-results/ |magazine=People |access-date=November 16, 2016}}</ref> Two sequences were identified, one from an unknown male, and the other too degraded to reach a conclusion. 

This testing consumed all of the remaining DNA from the rental car, making further tests impossible. Hook's investigation turned up two blood vials, samples from Crane and Carpenter, located in evidence storage at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Carpenter voluntarily gave a sample to Scottsdale Police when he was questioned in 1978. Crane's blood vial was recovered during his autopsy the day after the murder. Both were used as comparison samples for Hook's DNA tests on the blood stains found in Carpenter's rental car.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 15, 2016 |title='Hogan's Heroes' star Bob Crane's murder still a mystery despite new DNA tests |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hogans-heroes-star-bob-cranes-murder-still-a-mystery-despite-new-dna-tests |access-date=November 16, 2016 |publisher=FoxNews.com}}</ref>