[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] .He flew back to Arizona with the two police inves-tigators and agreed to answer questions without the presence of alawyer.It was then that the officers learned about the missing photoalbum of nude women.Carpenter said that he had seen it in Crane sbedroom the day before the murder but police never found it.Carpenter returned to California, where Scottsdale police attemptedto speak with him again on July 14.Police believed that Carpenterhad killed Crane, but Carpenter denied it. He was my friend, he toldofficers. And he was the goose who laid the golden egg for me, in termsof meeting ladies. Carpenter offered to take a lie-detector test (whichwas inadmissible in court) but police refused.The Scottsdale police brought their evidence against Carpenter toMaricopa County State Attorney Charles Hyder.They wanted to obtainan indictment for murder and an arrest warrant to bring their suspect toArizona for further questioning, but Hyder refused to press charges.Police had been unable to establish physical evidence linking the suspectto the crime.In an era before DNA testing was available, there was noproof that the type B bloodstain found in Carpenter s rental car camefrom Crane.Hyder believed that there was not enough evidence to show probable cause that Carpenter had committed the murder.Crane s body was returned to Los Angeles in early July for burial.Family members and more than 200 friends attended the funeral massheld at St.Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westwood.ReverendBernard Lohman, a close friend of Crane s, conducted the service.TheHogan s Heroes star was buried at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chats-worth.Pallbearers included his co-stars Robert Clary and Larry Hovis,series producer Edward Feldman, and celebrities Carroll O Connor,John Astin, and Patty Duke Astin.In November 1980, the Scottsdale police approached the newly electedMaricopa County State Attorney Tom Collins.They urged him toprosecute Carpenter, their key suspect in Crane s murder.He reviewedthe evidence in 1981 and agreed with his predecessor s decision that therewas insufficient evidence, and there the case rested for nearly a decade.By February 1990, information about the investigation filled three,294 Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in Americasix-inch thick binders in the police department.Officers had not given upon closing the case.SUSPECT ON TRIALRichard Romley succeeded Collins as Maricopa County Attorney inJanuary 1989, and in the spring of 1990 he created a special panel of15 attorneys and investigators to review the case.Scottsdale policedetective Barry Vassall teamed up with Jim Raines, a former Phoenixpolice detective who was working as a county attorney s investigator.They began combing through the case looking for new or overlookedevidence.In January 1992, Romley announced that new evidence had beenfound implicating Carpenter in Crane s murder.They had cometo believe that Crane was killed because he was growing tired ofCarpenter hanging around with him.Carpenter felt threatened, thetheory went, because he saw that his access to women was in dangerof being cut off.Carpenter had apparently been seen arguing withCrane at a nightclub days before the murder.The review panel believedthat he had crushed Crane s skull with a camera tripod.Police alsofound it suspicious that Carpenter flew back to Los Angeles the day ofCrane s murder.Carpenter was on his way to work at a video repair shop on June 1,1992 when he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.He was jailed without bail in a Los Angeles jail awaiting extraditionto Arizona.Before the case against Carpenter, then aged 64, could pro-ceed, he was ordered to stand trial in California in July 1992 on chargesof molesting two girls.He was accused of molesting a girlfriend s10-year-old daughter and her 12-year-old playmate in 1988.The wom-an s daughter did not come forward for four years because of threatsfrom her mother.The charges were prompted when the youth finallymade the allegations, and Carpenter faced up to 12 years in prison ifconvicted.He pleaded not guilty to three counts of child molestation.California authorities finally extradited Carpenter to Arizona justbefore Christmas 1992 to face the murder charge.He was held at theMaricopa County Jail while awaiting a preliminary hearing to decideif there was probable cause that he had murdered Crane.At the conclu-sion of the hearing in early 1993, Maricopa County Superior CourtJudge Gregory Martin ordered Carpenter to stand trial on a charge offirst-degree murder.He was released on a bond of $98,000
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