Awesome, dude!

I have to agree. Put yourself in Carpenter's place. He was friends for a while with Crane. He was getting women he wouldn't otherwise get. Then probably on the night or leading up to the night of Crane's murder. He told Carpenter he has to stop being a tag along. Crane wanted to try to get his career back on track. This would make most people mad, if your best friend told you to F-off. Now no more women and fame of being "Hogan's best friend" (Carpenter would feel like he was used for the making of video's and teaching Crane about the video equipment. Now that Hogan knew how to operate the equipment, in Carpenter's mind, Crane didn't need him anymore and felt betrayed). Hence the cord around the neck. In Carpenter's mind it would be "Here take this and cord and connect it!"

Exactly, crazy !

Blood analysis says otherwise. So much for being an expert.

Thanks So Much! I've Always believed it was Carpenter that killed him, & your remarks about the case Convinces me. Thanks!

I tend to think Carpenter did it, but the blood in the car was finally proven by DNA not to be Crane's blood.

@@marcsonnenberg623 The blood tested was contaminated. John Carpenter murdered Bob Crane without a doubt. Too much of a coincedence that there was blood in his rental car and that blood matched Bob Crane's rare blood type. The blood did not come from anyone who had the car prior to John Carpenter according to police.

You might not care but the women he taped (without their knowledge) or the husbands of women he slept with might have. You mess around with married women you're asking for trouble and you have it coming IMO. Plenty of single women out there.

I watch Hogan's Heroes on a regular basis... Rest in Peace Bob Crane.

@@Vichedges saw a documentary about some guy who looked all the tapes and everything else and said all the women knew that they were been filmed

He wasn't funny he was a pervert

@Lamont Cranston INC. It most likely John Carpenter but we will never ever know

That is just you. You don't have access to the police records, so you have nothing to go on except what you've see on TV and read in books, usually by people in the same situation. That said, he probably did it. :-)

Apartmemt wasn't broke into. Bob was in bed when attacked. Body still in bed.

John (not the "Thing" Horror movie director!) Henry Carpenter's been guilty.

I don't think Carpenter did it but he knew who did or at the very least knew it was going to happen. There is too much circumstantial evidence. For one thing, Carpenter would always schedule his business trips so that he would be in the same city as the one Crane would be performing at and Carpenter would stay with Crane in the latter's apartment. But this time, Carpenter stayed in a hotel. Also, Crane had made arrangements to take Carpenter to the airport on the morning of the murder but Carpenter went to the airport on his own without first going to Crane's apartment. After Carpenter got home, he called the apartment but a detective, Ron Dean, answered the phone; Carpenter never asked Dean why the cops were there. And then he called Bob Jr ostensibly "just to chat" (something Bob Jr. insists Carpenter had never done previously). And since Crane's apartment had been burglarized in another city, he had become very security-conscious and always locked his doors and windows at night but this time the cops discovered that the door was left unlocked. Maybe Carpenter told Crane that the former would stop by before he left town to pick something up in the apartment and convinced Crane not to lock the door, maybe so that Carpenter would not disturb Crane while the latter was sleeping (Carpenter's swimsuit was found in Crane's apartment during the investigation; maybe that's what Carpenter told Crane that the former was going there to retrieve but never did). To be sure, all this would not have proven that Carpenter committed the murder but as I said, it may show that Carpenter knew that Crane would be murdered that night.

@@princeofcupspoc9073 even the detectives said it was John carpenter. Don't need to see the police records, all this is public knowledge now, it's all been out in the open for years. The circumstancial evidence stacks up really high pointing to carpenter... he more than likely did do it.

Before she died, Patti Olsen Crane stated that she knew about her husband's "hobby" and was ok with it.

If Robert Crane went after that many Women, there had to be many a jealous husband lurking in the shadows, His murderer could have been any number of people. It's a shame for His children to know such terrible things about Their Dad and then have Him murdered as well.

Art Trombley It's academic now because it is extremely unlikely that this case will ever be solved. It's been almost 40 years since the Crane murder. Carpenter was the police's last best hope. Short of someone coming forward and confessing to the murder, we'll never know who did it.

Dennis Nayland Smith Murder has no statute of limitations like most crimes do.

Art Trombley I know that but after a certain period of time passes, the police no longer investigate a murder and file it away in the cold case file. The cops who originally investigated this case have long since retired from the force. I doubt if anyone is still investigating this case.

Actually I read a reporter named Hook from Phoenix had the police re-examine the DNA found in Carpenter's car, but one sample was too degraded and other, they did not know to whom it belonged. He had a book coming out in March. From what I have read through the years, I have very little doubt that it was at least 2nd degree murder by John Carpenter.

zzubuzz that's a really bad joke but in a warped way it is kinda funny. old HH fan and Col. Hogan was one of my favorites. I remember the shock of his murder.

John Banner was already dead by then, in case you didn’t know.

This made me laugh

Shultz actor died 1972-1973

John Banner died in 1973 so...….

CyPlaysMC HOGAN!!!

Classic

Could be.

I too tend to believe that Carpenter did it, or at least perhaps hired someone to do it, or at least knew who did it. That having been said, I wouldn't put too much weight behind what he said to his wife, supposedly, "They finally got me", since that could just be a statement of exasperation, since he knew for many years, since 1978, that he was still the prime suspect. It's not necessarily an incriminating statement. Very sad case and I feel sorry for all his (Crane's) kids.

Scare Crow The kids always suffer the most. My boy didn't know that I was His Father until He was 13. It was extremely sad for Us both.

your source?

Carpenter has beaten The Rap Twice now. He was found Not Guilty at the Murder Trial and the blood found in his Rental Car in Arizona was Proven Not To Be Bob Crane's Via DNA Testing.

He just wants to sell his book.

his head was bashed in.

You have to ask the logical question, if the Police had knowledge of the suspect that defended his marriage, how powerful did he need to be for the Police to ignore the investigation

Crane was bludgeoned to death with a camera tripod.

@@titankiller666 Allegedly. They never found the murder weapon.

Yeah this is how the Studios treat their past… once it's old it's getting demolished, torn apart, destroyed, bulldozed, thrown away, burned or tossed to the garbage… VERY seldom actually restored and honored.

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 yes. They could’ve made it into an amazing theme park.

Bob was a cocksman old school, like most men were back then.

You can say it doesn't matter but you're not the husband of one of those women and you're not a woman he might have taped without consent. He led a very seedy life and if you lie down with dogs you get fleas.

John Banner. Sgt. Schultz.

John Banner died in 1971.

I got strong narcissist vibes from the guy

Exactly. This son is just so bitter and he hates his half brother Scotty (who is the image of his father) with a passion.

@@icecreamforcrowhurst I feel for Scotty. He was a little boy when his dad died. Scotty looks exactly like Bob. He’s now older than Bob when he died.

MASH about quadrupled it.

+Agent Fungus DISMISSSSSSEEEDDD

Z : LOL. Still cannot help but wonder....

:D

+Agent Fungus You're an idiot. He looks like his mother's side of the family. Why is it, that so many people think that sons have to look like their father, or take after their father's side of the family? We have two boys in our family, and one looks like his mom and her side, and his brother looks like the dad and the dad's side.

male pattern baldness is inherited through the mother's side

Crane's blood type was A+. Carpenter's was B+

DNA analysis finally proved that the blood in the rental car that Carpenter used was not Crane's blood

hurts the spouse and family. He committed adultery many times over, and was ultimately stoned (bludgeoned) to death for his sins

Hurt no one? Bob Crane might argue that....

@@Billygoatsgrruff I seriously doubt Crane sought out married women. But I believe some sought him out, after all he was very famous at the time. Yes adultery hurts a family, if the guilty party confesses to them.

sha11235 . John Candy? How is he connected?

What a great comment! I totally agree.

Usually, a murderer leaving something tied around their victims neck is a sign of extreme anger. There was also no forced entry. These facts do not lend itself to the idea that the killing was a random one.

As a retired investigator, imo, Carpenter Definitely killed Bob Crane, Investigators in the first & Second cases, found Nobody else who had any motive for killing Crane, other than Carpenter. Becoming friends with that guy who was basically a leach, was Bob Crane's downfall.

+King Bee His only mistake was to think he be a father type and settle down. He should have stayed single because his life style is normal today and he could even be the President .

DON'T try me, troll!

Crane would have been too old to be prezzy

In the 70s?

@@djstatyk1540 ??? He died at 48 . Hillary is 71 ans still wants to be prez in 2020 .

Isn't getting laid like his dad was that's for sure.

It was also believed that neo-Nazies were behind it. Hogan's Heroes was not exactly sympathetic to the 3rd Reich- at the end of each episode the Axis is not only defeated but humiliated and embarrassed as well...!

They said because of the setting

no stranger than MASH.....

How many Korean Army main characters where there in MASH? (Which is actually about Vietnam, not Korea, but whatever.)

@@princeofcupspoc9073 mash was about korea. Not viet nam. You clearly never watched the show.

@@hipoboss He's not saying the show was set in Vietnam or overtly about Vietnam, he's saying the show was metaphor for Vietnam which was of course still ongoing when the show started.

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It leads one to believe that Bob Crane knew his killer.

I heard that Bob Crane was a very light sleeper, so how did he not wake up when someone entered the room?

Yup. Bob didn’t deserve what happened to him. And Carpenter was an evil man.

I didn't know that. When did she die? Last I checked, she was working as a drama teacher somewhere in the LA area. I'm sorry to hear that shes dead.

It would be a "big whoop" to many of the husbands and boyfriends of the women Crane slept with. I believe Carpenter was the killer, but he sure as hell wouldn't have been the only one with any motive.

John Carpetner did it..

Crane got tired of Carpenter being a hangaround and didnt want to support him.

No, he made LOVE to WOMEN!

Put yourself in Carpenter's place. He was friends for a while with Crane. He was getting women he wouldn't otherwise get. Then probably on the night or leading up to the night of Crane's murder. He told Carpenter he has to stop being a tag along. Crane wanted to try to get his career back on track. This would make most people mad, if your best friend told you to F-off. Now no more women and fame of being "Hogan's best friend" (Carpenter would feel like he was used for the making of video's and teaching Crane about the video equipment.) Now that Hogan knew how to operate the equipment, in Carpenter's mind, Crane didn't need him anymore and felt betrayed). Hence the cord around the neck. In Carpenter's mind it would be "Here take this cord and connect it!" You have to take into account that John Carpenter had a bad temper. It probably ate at him.

@@walleye364 the DNA did not match that was not Bob Crane's blood in his car and if you use that they have even less evidence of his guilt I believe his wife who he was fixing to divorce killed him because then she inherited everything I don't believe she bludgeoned him herself but she had him bludgeoned

@@walleye364 and John Carpenter was relatively wealthy he got beautiful women anyway continuing continuing after Bob Crane's death

@@walleye364 but I mean no disrespect the jurors got it right the state didn't prove their case and when they found out that was not Bob Crane's blood in the car they have even less than they originally had

Not all but many of the women that Crane and Carpenter hooked up with were prostitutes high-dollar prostitutes but prostitutes nonetheless and yes some of them were not prostitutes they were actresses but many of them were prostitutes crane was addicted to sex