Sometimes closure is a sad tease, a cruel taunt, because it will never occur for those haunted by what might have been, if only the fickle finger of fate were not such a cruel mistress. Writer and author Robert Crane is more than familiar with this melancholy dynamic, with traversing the universe of What Might Have Been, which seems to go on forever.
in 1978, Bob Crane was turning over a near leaf. He had cut off several hangers on, including the troubled and violent John Carpenter, the clingy groupie who ended up murdering Crane, blitzing him while he slept, with a camera tripod as the weapon. Bob Crane was getting therapy from a doctor, to look into his “sexual addiction” and why it had caused such chaos in his life. He was looking forward to the future, to cleaning up his reputation, to returning to acting, to being a better father for his children.
Bob Crane had seen “the color orange” for the first time.
Robert Crane, the eldest child of Hogan’s Heroes actor Bob Crane, knows who murdered his father, and is more than aware of how horribly the case was investigated, a botched investigation from the very beginning. It is a sad reminder each year, that two days after his birthday, the anniversary of his father’s death arrives, each and every year and once again, he and his sisters must think of what might have been had their father lived…
~Theresa Griffin Kennedy
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