Nearly 35 years after the assassination of US director Barry Crane, a suspect in Los Angeles has been brought before the magistrate. According to the public prosecutor's office, the 53-year-old pleaded "not guilty" in the murder charges.
Edwin H. is accused of killing his victim in July 1985 with a large ceramic sculpture. The body was found with a telephone cord around the neck.
After a DNA reconciliation, the suspect was arrested in May 2018 in the US state of North Carolina. In a first questioning in March, according to the police H. should have been the crime. The 57-year-old was born in Detroit and most recently worked as a car mechanic in Rutherford College. At the time of the crime he was 18 years old.
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Suspect Edwin H. Arrested in Los Angeles
Asked by the broadcaster WSOC-TV during his arrest if he remembered the events in 1985, H .: "I do not have a really good memory." At that time, anything could have happened because I was full of drug. "
An employee had found the body of the 57-year-old filmmaker on 6 July 1985 in the garage of his home in Los Angeles. Crane, who was also a successful bridge player, was one of the country's most sought after television directors in the 1970s and '80s. He has produced episodes such as "CHiP", "Hawaii Five-Zero", "The Incredible Hulk", "The Six-Million-Dollar Man" and "Cobra, Take Over".
The next trial date was set for mid-December.
