
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 6, 1994                   TAG: 9409070109
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: PHOENIX                                 LENGTH: Short

MAN GOES ON TRIAL IN KILLING OF 'HOGAN'

As Col. Robert Hogan on TV's ``Hogan's Heroes,'' Bob Crane bamboozled the Nazis and became a ladies' man as a prisoner of war in Germany.

The actor parlayed his on-screen Casanova image into a swinger's life that may have led to his slaying in an Arizona apartment.

Crane's final days will be re-run this week when his real-life sidekick, John Henry Carpenter, goes on trial on a charge of murder. Jury selection was to begin today.

Crane's body was found June 29, 1978, in an apartment in suburban Scottsdale. He was killed by blows to the head with a blunt object. An electrical cord was wrapped around his neck.

Prosecutors were expected to argue that Carpenter crushed Crane's skull with a camera tripod because Crane wanted to end the friendship that gave Carpenter access to women attracted by the actor's fame.

by CNB