Anchor delves into BOB CRANE murder

[Prescott Joe]

On the front page of today's Arizona Republic, the lead
story tells of Fox 10's anchor, John Hook, delving into
the murder of Bob Crane, star of the Hogan's Heroes
sitcom of the 60's. Crane was murdered in 1978 at
Scottsdale. The case has remained unsolved, until
now.......

http://www.azcentral.com/story/ente...led-bob-crane-john-hook-book-murder/99026852/

 

[FreddyE1977]

The case will likely never be solved as all of the major participants
are now deceased.

 

[landtuna]

This seems yet another attempt to bring more viewers aboard with sensational headlines. This case was indeed never officially solved but most of what evidence that was available pointed to Crane's buddy John Carpenter. This murder occurred in 1978 so most people alive today do not remember it or Crane other than in repeats of "Hogan's Hero's" and I suspect that show isn't of great interest to the younger generations - most of whom don't seem to know there was one whale of a global war which was the basis for the sitcom.

Fox 10 Phoenix doesn't have a lot going for it. Their Morning Show is not much more than (agreeably) nice hosts providing entertainment news (mostly about Fox' own shows) and pleas for donations to events to help one charity or another. I have watched it for several years and am admittedly ready for a change. Fox programming, outside their live sports, is pretty poor and they seem more and more to be focusing upon a specific ethnic group.

The one positive thing about KSAZ programming is their news department which seems most of the time to be largely independent of the well known Fox network news direction. This must be a difficult task to achieve what with them being an O&O.

 

[umfan]

Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the murder and that date was bound to generate some publicity. Looks like Mr. Hook is just getting a jump on the competition.

 

[BD Sullivan]

Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the murder and that date was bound to generate some publicity. Looks like Mr. Hook is just getting a jump on the competition.

Something like how seemingly every time a Cleveland station would show the 1975 TV movie about the Sam Sheppard murder case, a "new clue" would emerge soon after or a "buried weapon" was suddenly discovered on the Sheppard property.

 

[landtuna]

Here is a question for the industry insiders....

Why would a TV station's news department dig up an old story about an event that virtually all of its money demo knows little or nothing about - the Crane murder.

In my mind Bob Crane's murder, lurid as it was, had much less importance than that of Don Bolles (an investigative reporter for the Arizone Republic newspaper) who was apparently targeted by organized crime?

The other thing that comes to mind is - any L.A. stations doing Crane murder stories too? Because of his previous career as a host and DJ he was much better known in L.A. than in Phoenix where his only local appearance was in a small theater venue. I do realize that in L.A. there are tons of these types of people and stories and his porn addiction isn't as big an issue there as it was here.