1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Hollywoodland is a production of Double Elvis. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: I'm Thin, mandasilas Olhati and hale I Live on an 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: Island on the back of a whale, The Mostly mag 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: Extra Lo and Larry belv The Salem. 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: The stories about Bob Crane are insane. He lived a 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: double life, hiding his unrelenting addiction to sex and pornography 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: behind the facade of a squeaky clean radio and TV star. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: That addiction led not only to frequent affairs with co 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: stars on one of the most popular television series of 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, but to custom built personal pornographic paradises 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: in both his dressing room and his apartment. He was 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: obsessed with photography and extramarital sexual exploits, obsessions that may 13 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: have led to the end of his professional career and 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: his life, and those addictions may have dragged him to 15 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: the abyss. Bob Crane was a born entertainer. The joy 16 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: he received from making people smile was matched only by 17 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: his need to fulfill his darkest desires, and he made 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: great films, television shows, and radio programs. Unlike that clip 19 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: I played for you at the top of the show 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: that wasn't a clip from a great film that was 21 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: a fair youth sample from the Library of Congress of 22 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: Popeye The Sailor meets Sindbad the Sailor from nineteen thirty six. 23 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: I played you that clip because I can't afford the 24 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: rights to a clip from Randall Kleiser's Grease. And why 25 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: would I play you that specific slice of automatic systematic 26 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: hydramatic cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: number one movie in America on June twenty ninth, nineteen 28 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: seventy eight, And that was the day that Bob Crane 29 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Scottsdale, Arizona, 30 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: surrounded by countless examples of his kernel fascinations. On this 31 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: episode a double life, Pornographic Paradises, a brutal murder and 32 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: Bob Crane. I'm Jake Brennan and this is Hollywood Land. 33 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe was exhausted. She was also a consummate professional, 34 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: So even though she was dead tired from the daily 35 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: grind of the world's most in demand actress, she pretended 36 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: like she wanted to be sitting inside the k n 37 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: X radio studio for an interview. Whether she actually did 38 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: or not. It was nineteen sixty. Marilyn Monroe had a 39 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: movie to promote George qcore Is, scandalously titled Let's Make Love. 40 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: Marilyn wasn't just a star, she was capital M megawatt, 41 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: an unprecedented sex symbol. Her star power, combined with a 42 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: care free attitude towards all things taboo, flipped the nineteen 43 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: fifty stuffy conservatism on its head. She was the woman 44 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: all other women wanted to be, and that every man 45 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: wanted to be with men like this radio host sitting 46 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: opposite her inside this Los Angeles studio. She knew he 47 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: was trying to be the screep, but it was obvious 48 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: he couldn't stop stealing glances at her tight salmon colored 49 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: slacks and her light pink midriff sweater. But no matter 50 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: where his eyes wandered, the radio host focus remained on 51 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: the job at hand, a polite and respectful interview. Because, 52 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: just like Marilyn Monroe, KNX host Bob Crane was also 53 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: a consummate professional. Bob was used to stars of Marilyn 54 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: Monroe's caliber. He wasn't just the morning radio host for 55 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: the CBS station in LA He was the most sought 56 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: after early morning radio host in the country. He interviewed everyone, 57 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, even one of his 58 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: personal heroes, Jack Lemon, Marilyn's co star in Some Like 59 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: It Hot. Marilyn watched as Bob spun in his chair, 60 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: sliding records in and out of their sleeves. One was 61 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: a new song that had just been released, One was 62 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: a three second sound effect, another was a perfectly cued 63 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: up punchline from a comedy album. He spun back to 64 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: the microphone and cracked a joke before polishing off his 65 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: riff with that pre recorded punchline and the sound effect, 66 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: and then he dropped a needle on another record. Marilyn 67 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: had to hand it to him, the guy was good. 68 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: She looked around the room, turntables, records, a drum set, 69 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: mixing table, a microphone. Bob Crane was more like an 70 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: alchemist than a radio host. He was a well oiled machine. 71 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: He adjusted a few levels, arranged another set of records, 72 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: and gave his producer in the next room a thumbs up. 73 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: Then he turned to Marilyn and smiled as the record 74 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: spun on the turntable, pumping out a light and easy 75 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: tune to the hundreds of thousands of Angelinos engaged in 76 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: their morning commute. Bob Crane was their morning commute, that 77 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: commanding yet agreeable voice, wit as sharp as attack, happy, 78 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: go lucky persona. He was every one's best friend, a 79 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: guy you could trust. Even Marilyn found him trustworthy, even 80 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: as his eyes traced her curves from top to bottom. 81 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: She watched Bob watching her, and Marilyn was used to it, 82 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: the way men looked at her, fond over her, lost 83 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: their minds at the sight of her. But this was different. 84 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: Bob was in some tongue tied gawker. He fired off 85 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: questions in an inviting, playful manner. Did she like working 86 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: with Jack and Tony Randall? What does she think about 87 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 1: men whistling at her when she walked by? And Marilyn laughed. 88 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: She took the question as a compliment, but she couldn't 89 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: help but feel like each sentence that came out of 90 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: his mouth was performing a balancing act. He was a professional, 91 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: but it was also a flirt. It was like he 92 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: was two people at once. Bob grinned, his eyes glimmered. 93 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,559 Speaker 1: He was comfortable in this radio studio, but he wanted more. 94 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: He wanted to be Jack lemon or Tony Randall. He 95 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: wanted to act opposite Marilyn Monroe. Acting was, after all, 96 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: the natural progression for a man with his level of talent, 97 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: and Bob's talent was obvious from an early age, as 98 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: was his popularity in his small Cookie Cutter, Connecticut hometown. 99 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: He excelled in both athletics and music. He had a 100 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: voice for radio. He made mock broadcast for his high 101 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: school sweetheart and graduation he made and his wife. Bob 102 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: didn't drink, Bob didn't smoke, and not one person in 103 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: town had a bad word to say about Bob. Bob 104 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: was as wholesome as wholesome can get, but wholesome gets boring. 105 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: Bob wanted something more, something beyond the conventional conservative New 106 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: England life he'd been born into, not a life on 107 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: Main Street, USA approving loan applications at the local bank. 108 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: For the next forty years, he was an entertainer. He 109 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: sent his demo tape to some local stations and eventually 110 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: landed a gig behind a mic. He bounced from job 111 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: to job over the next few years, Connecticut, New York, 112 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: New Jersey, climbing the corporate radio ladder. As his abilities 113 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: continued to land him bigger and better offers. He was 114 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: a light years beyond anyone else in the broadcasting booth, 115 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: and the hard work paid off when Bob landed the 116 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: Primo kN X gig. He packed up his family and 117 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: moved across the country to the land of seventy five 118 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: degree days and zero humidity. At first, Bob was a 119 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: nobody in Los Angeles, just a drop of water and 120 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: an ocean of talented and cutthroat entertainment industry types. So 121 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: Bob did what he did best. He sold himself. He 122 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: grinded it out, He entertained the morning commuters, flashed his 123 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: smile at dozens of promotional events each month, Work, Schmooze Network, Repeat. 124 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: Soon you heard Bob Grain's voice on the radio and 125 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: you could picture his face, that nice guy persona. It 126 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: didn't seem like an act. Bob rarely drank at all 127 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: the notoriously booze laden parties, and when a social event ended, 128 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: Bob returned to his three bedroom home with the white 129 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: picket fents and the nice family. Out there in San 130 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: Fernando Valley Saturdays where for little Sundays were for church. Still, 131 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: something deep within him craved more more than just becoming 132 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: the next Jack Lemon, more than having the perfect suburban 133 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: wife on his arm, family at home, more than the 134 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: ability to entertain. Bob's work ethic was maniacal. He was 135 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: always on to the next thing, the bigger, the better. 136 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: His professional desires were insatiable, and so were his desires 137 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: of another kind. Bob and Marilyn shook hands as the 138 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: interview ended. Bob complimented her recent performance one last time 139 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: and mentioned he'd treasured the opportunity to work with her. 140 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: And then, as he did with all his guests, Bob 141 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: and Marilyn post for a photo. Bob felt the urge 142 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: deep in his gut and deep in his mind. He 143 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: let his left hand slide down Marilyn's lower back, and 144 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: the sensation of skin on skin, and the proximity to 145 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: a beautiful woman, one whose salacious celluloid success had implanted 146 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: her image deep within the consciousness of every red blooded 147 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: male in the United States. She was so close to 148 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: him right now. Bob was calm and collected on the outside, 149 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: but on the inside he was losing his goddamn mind. 150 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: Everything fell away He couldn't think of anything but her, Marilyn, Marylyn, 151 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: those slacks, that sweater, and more importantly, what lay beneath them. 152 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: He wouldn't get the chance to see for himself. The 153 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: camera flashed and then it was all over. Marilyn was 154 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: out the door for her next engagement. Bob jumped in 155 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: his car for a quick commute home on the one 156 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: oh one. He pulled into the driveway of his perfect house, 157 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: perfectly manicured lawn, deep green, lush. The sunlight shimmered off 158 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: at the front windows. He had built a family in 159 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: a career, three thousand miles from where he started. He 160 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: had made himself and it made him immensely proud. But 161 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: Bob was ready to take the next step. With that 162 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: next step, however, came further temptations, deep seated urges, the 163 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: bidness desires, just waiting to slowly bubble to the surface, 164 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: and when they did, nothing would ever be the same again. 165 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: Patricia Olsen was used to sound stages in studio lots 166 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: like Desilu Studios in Culver City. Well, technically it went 167 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: by Cinema General Studios these days, but everyone still called 168 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: it Desilu The House that DESI Arnez and Lucille Ball built, 169 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: and then there was RKO's forty acres back lot. Not 170 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: to mention all those stages and lots that made Hollywood 171 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: the town that it was so many of the damn 172 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: things that you sometimes lost track of which one you 173 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: were standing on that day. Patricia stood on those sound 174 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: stages day after day as Hilda, secretary to a Nazi colonel, 175 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: and the acclaimed campy World War II television sitcom Hogan's Heroes. 176 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: She'd been here hundreds of times before, but this time 177 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: was different. It was nineteen seventy. There was no live 178 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 1: studio audience sitting in the seats, she wasn't in costume, 179 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: the cameras weren't rolling, and though the setting was lacking 180 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: its usual hustle and bustle, Patricia wasn't alone. Patricia wasn't 181 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: the first actress to play Hilda. That would be Cynthia Limb. 182 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: But Cynthia was caught having an affair with her co star, 183 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: and her husband went ballistic. He gave her an ultimatum, 184 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: their marriage or the show. Cynthia chose her marriage, which 185 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: meant the show's producers needed to choose another. Well in 186 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: doubt blonde actress to fill the void Cynthia left Patricia 187 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: Olsen under her gnome to TV. Sigarette Valdez filled that void, 188 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: and not just as the secretary to Colonel Clink. She 189 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: also took Cynthia Lynde's place in the torrid extramarital affair 190 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: with her male co star. The man standing to her 191 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 1: right right now on this soundstage, the man who played 192 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: American Colonel Robert Hogan, the Hogan of Hogan's heroes, Bob Crane. 193 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: It started slowly, some casual flirting on set, and that 194 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: wasn't all that surprising. Bob Crane flirted with just about 195 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: every woman to walk by, and not in a creepy way. 196 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: It was a smooth talker with a radiant smile. You're 197 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: a basic nice guy. It was all good, clean fun. 198 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: But as the relationship between Bob and Patricia's on screen 199 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: characters developed, so did their off screen relationship. I'm not 200 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: talking about two cast members sharing a male They stole 201 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: off at every chance, secluded meetings, behind closed doors, they 202 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: left little doubt as to what was going on. And now, 203 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: standing together on stage, Bob put his hand on Patricia's 204 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: hand and he looked deep into her eyes, smiling that 205 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: thousand watts smile, and they recited marriage voles. But this 206 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: was no rehearsal. Those vows were real and binding. The 207 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 1: onset marriage Bob Crane and Patricia Olsen was the culmination 208 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: of many years of blurred lines, and by nineteen seventy 209 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: every line in Bob Crane's personal and professional life had 210 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: been blurred multiple times. Over ten years earlier, Bob was 211 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: carving out his kingdom on the Los Angeles airways. Millions 212 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: invited him into their cars and homes every morning, and 213 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: Bob won them over day after day, a week after week. 214 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't dirty or rude. He was just funny, and 215 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: Bob did what he believed he had been put on 216 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: earth to do, entertain people. And when the show was over, 217 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: he shifted gears quickly retreated into his private life. His 218 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: very private life. Bob kept his family life separate from 219 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: his career. His wife didn't accompany him to meetings, he 220 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: rarely spoke of his family to co workers, and he 221 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: kept the door to his office at the cann X 222 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: studio closed tight. When Bob went home to Tarzana, a 223 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: small bedroom community in the valley, he was an adoring 224 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: father two kids and another on the way. His home 225 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: office was full of the things he liked and took 226 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: pride in stacks of LPs, a drum set, audio recordings 227 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: of his own shows, newspaper clippings of his career, accolades, journals, 228 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: and a growing assortment of photography equipment, which was quickly 229 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: becoming his favorite hobby. He developed his photos in a 230 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: private dark room where he could document his family's major 231 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: milestones and accomplishments. But to leave it to Beaver Suburbia 232 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: facade wasn't quite what it seemed. Bob's first marriage to Anne, 233 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: while externally a masterclass in marital bliss, had already been 234 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: through the ring. Back in nineteen fifty, the couple's first 235 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: year of marriage, Bob carried out an affair with a 236 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: woman while on assignment for his very first radio gig 237 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: in Western New York, three hundred miles away from his 238 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: wife and everyone that he knew. Made him restless, anxious, agitated. 239 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: He needed something, something to make him feel better. He 240 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: needed to release, and he found it. Sex. Sex felt good. 241 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: It filled that void that opened up as soon as 242 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: he stepped away from his picture perfect home life. Which 243 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: he often did, and the more he did it, the 244 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: more he couldn't wait to do it again. He needed it, 245 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: craved it, and Los Angeles was where that temptation began 246 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: to get the best of them. La wasn't Upstate New 247 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: York or his humdrum hometown of Connecticut. La wasn't even 248 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: a city. Really, It was a whole other world, a 249 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: world of women, blondes, brunettes, tall and short, willing and able. 250 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: They came from all over the country and landed here 251 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: in the city of angels, and Bob didn't care if 252 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: the women themselves were angels, and better for him if 253 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: they were devils. Bob's middling celebrity status, mixed with his 254 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: traditionally handsome, good looks and million dollars smile, landed him 255 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: plenty of opportunities to feed his impulses. His undeniable earth 256 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: led to encounters in bars and clubs, not to mention 257 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: from his professional orbit. Bob always ensured that sex was consensual. 258 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: In the same way he carefully documented his professional and 259 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 1: personal life, he documented his sexual adventures. Nude photos of 260 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: his partners were a must. He wanted them to look 261 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: just like the playboy centerfolds he'd studied in detail behind 262 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: closed doors. He was diligent, delicate with his equipment and 263 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: with the process. The photos were carefully processed and added 264 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: to a collection that grew with time, a collection of 265 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 1: his infidelities he shot, a reminder that there was something 266 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: out there that could soothe his anxieties. It was a 267 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: collection that was for Bob's eyes only, and Bob was 268 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: able to keep his personal activity behind closed doors in 269 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: La separate from his family life ten miles northwest on 270 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: the Ventura Highway, at least for a while, because as 271 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: his star continued to rise, Bob Crane was becoming impossible 272 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: to ignore. Although this so called radio king wasn't technically 273 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: number one in the ratings, he endeared himself to the 274 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: major players in film and television who joined him in 275 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: his studio. Those players brought him opportunities, first as the 276 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: voice of a radio announcer on an episode of the 277 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: Twilight Zone, then small roles in the films, returned to 278 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: Peyton Place and Mantrap, and guest appearances on The Alfred 279 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: Hitchcock Hour and The Dick Vandys Show. By nineteen sixty three, 280 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: he was spending his mornings hosting his show on kN X. 281 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: In his afternoons and evenings portraying doctor Dave Kelcey on 282 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: The Donna Reid Show, one of the most popular TV 283 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: shows in the country. He brought a comedic edge to 284 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: the role that was both suggestive and brazen. Bob was 285 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: a bona fide celebrity, and that meant more exposure, more influence, 286 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: more opportunity, an opportunity knocked whenever there was downtime between 287 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: his gigs, more than the radio show, more than Donna Reid. 288 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: That in between time was the time Bob cherished. That 289 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: was the time that Bob did with Bob wanted to do. 290 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: He documented every encounter, every tryst. After two years in 291 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: sixty three episodes of The Donna Reed Show, Bob had 292 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: a collection of photos that could easily fill a small room. 293 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: The notorious conservatism of the nineteen fifties kept Bob's addiction 294 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: swept under the rug. CBS was none the wiser when 295 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: they tossed a pilot script for Hogan's Heroes on his desk. 296 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: The hell was this only twenty years since the end 297 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: of World War Two and they're making a sitcom with 298 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: bumbling Nazis in a laugh track. It sounded like a 299 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: bad joke, the kind of joked Bob didn't make. He'd 300 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: seen what an insensitive jokes could do to a person. 301 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: He didn't want to offend anyone. A show like this 302 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: could sink his career just as it was getting started. 303 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: But on the other hand, look at the pros. It 304 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: was a leading role in what would be a nationally 305 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: broadcast primetime show. Bob wouldn't be a supporting character anymore. 306 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: He would be the title character, and all reservations he 307 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: had to admit that script was funny. With Hogan's Heroes, 308 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: Bob reached an even larger audience. Not just the millions 309 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: of families who welcomed them into their living rooms on 310 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: a weekly basis, Bob was more interested in the countless 311 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: women he could welcome into his dressing room. As soon 312 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: as Hogan's Heroes became a phenomenon, Bob wasn't just getting noticed. 313 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: He was getting pursued, approached in public while eating with 314 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: his family, visited at home by crazed fans. Being that 315 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: famous had its perks. It made picking up women effortless, 316 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: and the ease of access, combined with Bob's proclivity made 317 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: it impossible to continue concealing the separate life he was 318 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: leading away from his family. But once again the lines 319 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: were blurring. There seemed to be no limit to the 320 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: popularity of Hogan's heroes, and no limit to the influence 321 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,679 Speaker 1: Bob wielded, But there was only so much he could handle. 322 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: His addiction was like a boiling pot of water and 323 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: the top it's about to blow off. We'll be right 324 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: back after this. 325 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 2: We're we're where. 326 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: The room was dark except for a flickering light coming 327 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: for the projector. The real clicked as it spooled through 328 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: the machine. Thrown onto the wall were scenes featuring two 329 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: men and multiple women coming in and on a frame, 330 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: and their clothes had long since been tossed aside, and 331 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,479 Speaker 1: in the silence, they engaged in compromising positions, flesh pressed 332 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: on flesh for long stretches of time it was hard 333 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: to tell where one body ended and another began. Bob Crane, ever, 334 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: the entertainer for others, sat in the darkness and was 335 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: entertained by his own image on the wall. If only 336 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: they knew his fans they watched him on primetime, saw 337 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: his face and advertisements carried his likeness around on the 338 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: front of novelty lunchboxes. They'd never seen him like this. 339 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: This was a private show performed for just himself, Bob 340 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: Crane and the man sitting next to him. The wealth 341 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: and connections Bob had obtained from starring in one of 342 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: the most popular television series in the country not only 343 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: increased his extramarital offerings, It also meant introductions to industry 344 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: insiders of all types, including a guy named John Carpenter. 345 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: Not the John Carpenter who helped Snake Plisken get the 346 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: fuck out in New York, but another John Carpenter, a 347 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 1: regional sales manager for Sony. John introduced Bob to something 348 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: that would revolutionize the way he curated his private collection 349 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: of stripped down snapshots video recording. John Carpenter wasn't just 350 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: Bob Crane's connection for video equipment. He was Bob's partner 351 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: in debauchery. John would meet him on the road where 352 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: they'd use Bob's star power to pick up willing participants 353 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: in bars and clubs, and they returned back to their 354 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: palace of choice for the evening apartment motel room, and 355 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: they'd flipped the camera on and record themselves and their guests. 356 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: They shot on real film and developed elluloid on their own, 357 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: using a bathroom as a dark room. But when the 358 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: film was ready, they'd review it, you know, good, clean, 359 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: fun or whatever. The new technology took Bob's addictive tendencies 360 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: to the next level. He was no longer capturing static images. 361 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: These were living, breathing entries into his index of infidelity. 362 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: And as he watched, his eyes darted over the bent 363 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: and twisted bodies, the movements, the contortions, the pleasures and 364 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: kinks laid as bare. His fascination had reached it, seen it, 365 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: and by nineteen seventy seven, Bob Crane and John Carpenter 366 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: have been sharing sexual encounters with women in this way 367 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: for the better part of a decade. But something was changing. 368 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: Bob was growing weary. The conquest didn't arouse him in 369 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 1: the way that they had in the past, back when 370 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: part of the thrill was how wrong it was. But 371 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: he let his imagination run wild. Think about what was 372 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: underneath Marilyn and Roe's sweater. Now it all felt so routine, 373 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: another hookup, just another fuck. And to make matters worse, 374 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: his addiction now had him in the throes of what 375 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: would undoubtedly become his second divorce. Thinking about divorce always 376 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: brought Cynthia Lynne back to mind the full blown affair 377 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: he had with his Hogan's Heroes co star that forced 378 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: her exodus for the show, and then the divorce from 379 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: his first wife, Anne, and the onset marriage to his 380 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: current wife, Patricia. Scattered throughout the mall where bars and 381 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: strip clubs, escorts, the photos, the videos, so many fucking videos, 382 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 1: the Robert Edward Crane Presidential Library of Videos. He was 383 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: always sensitive to the feelings of others, sensitive to his 384 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: own image, but somewhere along the way he got reckless. 385 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 1: His private dressing room on the set of Hogan's Heroes 386 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: slowly became a storage space for his collection of nude photos, 387 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: on display for all the sea. He didn't even try 388 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: to hide them. He showed them to his fellow cast members. 389 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: He figured surely they'd enjoy them just the way he it. 390 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: Spoiler alert they did not, and when Hogan's Heroes came 391 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: to an end, so did a squeaky clean image tainted 392 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: by divorce, an affair. He was once seen as a 393 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: caring father, devoted husband in a hardworking sober, church going man. 394 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: But now in the eyes of the public, Bob Crane 395 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: had gone from an all American success story to just 396 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: another Hollywood side show. It didn't seem to matter to Bob. 397 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: He kept growing his collection and kept showing off like 398 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: on the set of Disney's nineteen seventy three live action 399 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: feature Superdad. His co stars were understandably concerned, and the 400 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 1: smoke from the rumors about Bob caught fire, nixing any 401 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: chance he had of becoming a mainstay with the Mouse. 402 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: The gigs dried up in the nineteen seventy five sitcom 403 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: he created, The Bob Crane Show flamed out after only 404 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: fourteen episodes. His second marriage was squarely on the rocks, 405 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: and Bob was now reduced to performing in dinner theater 406 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: shows up and down the West Coast just to score 407 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: a steady paycheck. His anxieties grew with his new status 408 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: as part time pariah. The one thing he loved doing, 409 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: entertaining people, was becoming harder and harder to do in 410 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: any meaningful way. Bob once again filled the void with sex, 411 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: but even that grew tiresome. Didn't matter. He couldn't stop 412 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: doing it, just like He couldn't stop the thoughts that 413 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: ate at him from the back of his brain, those 414 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: nagging suspicions that somewhere, somehow, a husband, a boyfriend, or 415 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: a lover was going to lose his lady because of Bob. 416 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: How many times had that happened? How many more times 417 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: would it happen? Did those guys know where Bob lived? 418 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: They come after him? Bob couldn't shake the questions from 419 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: his head as the reel and the tape ran out 420 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: and flapped against the projector like a flailing fish out 421 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: of water. The pornographic images on the wall were now 422 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 1: replaced with a blank white frame, and Bob stared into 423 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: the nothingness. Some of all, he turned to John, his 424 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 1: most intimate confidant, didn't understand the way that Bob felt. 425 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: How could he. He didn't have a career that was 426 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: slowly dissolving in the same way. Bob needed to do 427 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: something different. His fame had given him carte blanche to 428 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: fill any carnal desire he dreamed of, but it was 429 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: time to wake up from that dream. He would turn 430 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,199 Speaker 1: fifty soon. He needed to make a change, revive his 431 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: career before it was too far gone, and that didn't 432 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: suit John Carpenter in the least. It was bad enough 433 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: that Bob's fall from the upper echelon of the Hollywood 434 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: A list meant they weren't scoring as many girls as 435 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 1: they used to. If Bob wasn't getting tailed, then John 436 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: wasn't getting tailed, but quitting altogether, not doing this anymore. 437 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 1: John took it personally. He was getting tossed aside, like 438 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: he was no longer in the frame. Because Bob wasn't 439 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: going to just refocus the lens he was seeing life through. 440 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: He was going to change out the lens altogether. It 441 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: would have been the renaissance of Bob Crame, if only 442 00:27:50,520 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: it wasn't already too late. June twenty ninth, nineteen seventy eight, 443 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: Victoria Barry pulled into the parking lot of Windfield Apartments 444 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: in Scottsdale. She exited the car only to be greeted 445 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: by the punishing midday sun. Arizona could be fucking unbearable. 446 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: She knew that, unlike her car, Bob Crane's place would 447 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: be air conditioned. Her co star and the local dinner 448 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: theater production of Beginner's Luck was staying here in this 449 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: desert oasis. She made her way to Unit one thirty 450 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: two A and knocked nothing. The heat rose from the 451 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: scalding pavement like steam from a skillet, and the sun 452 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: bore down from above. It was well over one hundred degrees. 453 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: Victoria knocked again and the hell was taking so still nothing. 454 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: She placed her hand on the door handle. She knew 455 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: Bob wouldn't mind if she just let herself in. As 456 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,239 Speaker 1: the door slowly creaked open and Victoria was met by 457 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: a room devoid of light. The thick shades draped over 458 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: the windows created a stark contrast to the blazing sun outside. 459 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: She stepped in and closed the door. The darkness consumed 460 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: her immediately. She called out for Bob silence, and as 461 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: she stepped into the living room, her eyes began to 462 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: adjust and there was a television, some tripods, camera equipment, 463 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: a coffee table full of mail, newspapers, paperwork. She called 464 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: out for Bob again, and maybe he'd left and had 465 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: forgotten to lock the door, and there was no way 466 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: he was still sleeping. The man had no time for sleep. Still, 467 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: may as well check. Victoria approached the bedroom door. She 468 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: gave a polite knock and then slowly pushed the door open. 469 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: She saw the blood first, dark, fresh, splattered all over 470 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: the walls, and the ceiling was everywhere. The bed the 471 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: face of the man laying there. That face had been 472 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: beaten and bludgeoned. An electrical cord was wrapped tight around 473 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: his neck. He was shirtless. His body was nearly unrecognizable, 474 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: but Victoria knew who it was. It was Bob Crane, 475 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: or at lease it had been, Victoria's screamed. She ran 476 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: to Bob's neighbors for help, and the crime scene became 477 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: a circus. It lacked any sense of proper security. Items removed, used, 478 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: and removed. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner crawled over Bob's 479 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: body so that he could shave his head to further 480 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: examine the wounds. Precious evidence may have been lost in 481 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: the shuffle, including a specific selection of sex tapes, and 482 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: there was no sign of forced entry into Bob's apartment, 483 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: which led police to believe that he knew his killer. 484 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: But who would commit such a brutal murder a slighted lover, 485 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: an enraged husband, someone who happened to be on one 486 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: of those missing tapes, or maybe it was someone even 487 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: closer to Bob than a one night's stand, maybe someone 488 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: who was with him on all of those one night stands. 489 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: Detectives found blood on the door of a rental car 490 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: that was being used by John Carpenter, the sales manager 491 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: for Sony who turned Bob onto video recording and for 492 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: a while was as close as confidant. It was a 493 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: match for Bob Crane's blood type. In addition, the eyewitness 494 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: reports of an argument between Bob and John at a 495 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: Scottsdale nightclub the night before Bob's body was discovered, John's 496 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 1: motives seemed clear Bob wanted out of their salacious lifestyle 497 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: and John did not, But there was no murder weapon, 498 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: no hard evidence to connect John Carpenter to his friend's death, 499 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: so no charges were brought. For twelve years, Bob Crane's 500 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: murder remained unsolved, but in nineteen ninety a Scottsdale detective 501 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: found a previously overlooked photograph, not one of the dirty pictures, 502 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: stashed in Unit one thirty two A the win Field Apartments. 503 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: This was an evidence photo that seemed to show brain 504 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: tissue in John Carpenter's rental car. John was subsequently arrested 505 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: and officially charged, but DNA testing of old samples went nowhere, 506 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: and John's testimony shifted the focus back to the boyfriends 507 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: and husbands of the many women Bob had illicit affairs with. 508 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 1: John Carpenter was acquitted in nineteen ninety four. He died 509 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. Nearly twenty years later, in twenty sixteen, 510 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: a Fox News reporter and Phoenix retested the DNA samples 511 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: found on John Carpenter's car using new technology. He revealed 512 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: the results of the test live on TV. Finally, it 513 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: seemed like there would be answers, but maybe the future 514 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: would reach back into the past and deliver the truth 515 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: once and for all, And the reporter went live on 516 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 1: that night's broadcast and revealed to the world that the 517 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: DNA found on John Carpenter's car door was not Bob Crane's. 518 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: Bob Crane left behind so many documents of his carquests, 519 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: his obsessions, of the things he was addicted to, but 520 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: any documents pointed to what happened to him on the 521 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: night of June twenty ninth, nineteen seventy eight. Vanish quicker 522 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: than contrast vanishes in an overexposed photograph. That's a mystery 523 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 1: that ought to be in pictures. I'm Jake Brennan and 524 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: this is bad Lands. Hollywood Land was created by Years 525 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: Truly and is produced in partnership with Double Elvis. Follow like, 526 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: rate and review hollywood Land wherever you get your podcasts, 527 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: and get in touch with us on social media at 528 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 1: double Elvis. If you like hollywood Land, check out my 529 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: other show, the award winning Disgraceland, which looks at the 530 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: world of music through the lens of true crime. 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