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Three people have died, and two others have been transported to the hospital after a helicopter crashed into the ocean near Kalalau Beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi

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• One pilot and four passengers were on board at the time of the crash, which occurred on Thursday, March 26, at approximately 3:45 p.m. local time

• Officials confirmed the helicopter was being operated by Airborne Aviation

Three people have died and two more have been hospitalized following a helicopter crash in Hawaii.

On Thursday, March 26 at approximately 3:45 p.m. local time, Kauaʻi Police Dispatch received a text-to-911 message that a helicopter had crashed into the ocean near Kalalau Beach on the Nā Pali Coast in northwest Kauaʻi, pera Kauaʻi Police Department (KPD) release, citing a preliminary report.

"Officials have identified the helicopter as being operated by Airborne Aviation, with one pilot and four passengers," the release noted, adding that the incident "resulted in three fatalities."

Police said that two survivors had been transported to Wilcox Medical Center in Lihue for treatment, per the release.

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The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that the incident occurred approximately 300 feet offshore, perHawaii News Now.

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"Personnel and resources from the Kauaʻi Fire Department, the Kauaʻi Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, American Medical Response, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the Kauaʻi Police Department are actively involved in the response," the police release added.

Police concluded, "No further information is available at this time. Updates will be provided as they become available."

Kauaʻi Mayor, Derek Kawakami, described the location of the crash as being "very, very isolated" in a clip shared byKHON2 Newsand said it was "very tricky" to "get down into," thanking authorities for their "phenomenal" response to the incident.

Some waterfalls, beaches and cliffs in the region are only accessible via boat or hiking on the Nā Pali Coast, so helicopter tours have become a popular way to explore the area, per theAssociated Press.

PEOPLE has contacted the Kauaʻi Police Department, Airborne Aviation and the U.S. Coast Guard for additional information, but didn't immediately receive a response.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thea Price anticipated changes under the second Trump administration, but she never expected her life to be thrown into such disarray.

Trump DOGE Aftershocks

Along with the 300 other employees of the United States Institute of Peace, Price was fired, rehired and then fired again as part of President Donald Trump's crusade to shrink the federal government,a chaotic effortthat cut tens of thousands of jobs and shrank or dismantled entire agencies.

One year later, many of those impacted are left wondering whether their pain was worth it.

"Nobody was prepared for the complete destruction," said Price, a former program operations manager. "And for what?"

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led by then-Trump adviserElon Musk, instigated purges of federal agencies with the expressed mission of rooting outfraud, waste and abuse.

USIP, a congressionally funded independent nonprofit, became a symbol of the upheaval. DOGE staffers entered the USIP building early last year,setting off a battleover who controls the institute, which later saw Trumpplant his nameon its Washington headquarters.

The blow to its workers came on March 28, 2025, when they were fired, a decision a judge later reversed and then another one reinstated — whiplash that still weighs on the former staffers.

A year on, DOGE's toll on people's lives is clear —what was actually savedin the process of upending them is not.

Questions over how much DOGE has saved

Musk set a target of $2 trillion in savings. The DOGE website says it has saved about $215 billion through job cuts, contract and lease cancellations and asset sales, as well as grant rescissions.

More than 260,000 workers left federal service due to Trump administration initiatives in 2025, according to the Office of Management and Budget, including reductions in force, early retirement, deferred resignations and a hiring freeze.

"President Trump was given a clear mandate to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse from the federal government," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle when asked how much was saved. "In just a year, he has made significant progress in making the federal government more efficient to better serve the American taxpayer."

Organizations that have examined elements of the DOGE operation, along with the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog of how taxpayer dollars are spent, have not been able to pinpoint how much was saved, or lost, by the reform efforts. Many challenge the Republican administration's numbers.

Dominik Lett, a budget analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said there were basic mistakes on the DOGE pages tracking savings, leading him to believe the numbers were too high. He said Cato and other organizations have shied away from trying to arrive at a number because of the complexity of the moves.

"Who is getting fired matters. How they're getting fired, will there be lawsuits?" was among the questions Lett has. Even terminating leases and contracts wasn't as simple as it sounds.

In the end, he said, "we don't know how much DOGE has saved."

Cuts were big, deep and random, expert says

In her analysis of media reports and public sources, Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, found that about 25,000 people who were fired were rehired because they were deemed to be essential.

"What DOGE did is it cut so big and so deep and so randomly that when the Cabinet secretaries came in, and Elon Musk was gone, they realized that they had to bring some of these people back," Kamarck said.

With that, Kamarck estimated the savings might hit between $100 billion and $200 billion, though final figures remain highly uncertain.

A GAO analysis found layoffs in the Education Department's civil rights division may have cost $38 million, with employees paid months after termination.

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The impacts of DOGE's work are the subject of ongoing litigation.More than a dozen lawsuitshave been filed against the Trump administration for DOGE's actions over the past year, which challenge everything from the cancellation of grants, mass firings and buyouts, to access to sensitive U.S. Treasury data and payment systems, to the closure of massive federally funded programs.

Musk, in an interview with conservative influencer Katie Miller, said last December that his efforts leading DOGEwere only "somewhat successful"and he would not do it again.

Whiplash at the US Institute of Peace

Created by Congress during the Reagan administration, USIP was meant to promote peace and prevent global conflict. At the time it was shuttered, the institute operated in more than two dozen conflict zones, including Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Employees watched as DOGE dismantled another organization, theU.S. Agency for International Development. Then, DOGE staffersshowed up multiple times at USIPand ultimately took over the headquarters. Most of the institute's board and the acting president were fired.

On the evening of March 28, 2025,termination notices began showing upin employees' personal emails. Within two hours, most of the 300-plus staffers were gone.

USIP leaders and employees sued, arguing it was independent of the executive branch. A federal judge ruled Trump had acted outside his authority, in a decision thatrestored controlof the institute and reinstated workers with backpay — though few returned as operations resumed gradually.

In June, anappeals court stayed that decision. And for the second time, the staff was fired.

The case is suspended now, awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision in another personnel-related case, which could expand the president's control over federal agencies that have long been considered independent of the executive branch.

Depending on that decision and what the appeals court does, the staff could be due back pay and benefits again, despite not having worked for months.

DOGE's aftershocks are still being felt

While the original iteration of DOGE has dissipated from the public view, its presence is still felt in parts of the government. High-ranking DOGE officials have been hired as permanent staffers in federal agencies, including at the Treasury Department.

For the people who worked at USIP, the past year has been a whirlwind.

Some have found jobs, but many have faced headwinds in a market flooded with skilled labor. Some meet regularly and update one another on job searches and the suspended court cases they still hope might revive their former employer.

Price came off maternity leave one day before she was fired. When she was fired for the second time, she and her husband, who had lost his job as a contractor at a museum when his project's funding was cut, lived on their reserves and applied for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which took months to be approved.

She was forced to use a food pantry when the government shutdown last yearstopped her SNAP payments. After filing dozens of job applications, her family left the capital region and moved to the Seattle area.

She now works for a nonprofit that focuses on affordable housing. It is meaningful, but she misses the institute, its mission and her team.

Liz Callihan, who worked in communications at USIP, has applied for 140 jobs since being fired. She often wonders why her former professional home, with a noble mission and a relatively small annual budget of $50 million, became a target of DOGE.

"I absolutely ask myself every day what all this was for," she said.

Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein contributed.

HONG KONG — He and his shipmates stay up on the deck at night, sometimes watching rockets fly over their heads.

What was supposed to be an uneventful first voyage transporting oil across the Persian Gulf has turned into a nightmare for a 28-year-old sailor from India, who has spent the past month stuck as his ship sits idled by theIran war.

"We don't sleep at night. We stay up on deck because you never know what might happen next," said the sailor, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals from authorities and his employer.

The seafarer, who has been at sea since November, was speaking to NBC News from Iraqi waters minutes after an air attack Tuesday afternoon, which he says landed on Iran just a few miles away.

"The ship is still vibrating," he said in an interview in Hindi.

He and the three other crew members on the small oil vessel are among20,000 sailors strandedon hundreds of ships in the Persian Gulf, according to the U.N.'s maritime agency, after Iran effectively shut down theStrait of Hormuzin response to U.S.-Israeli strikes.

The blockade of the crucial shipping route, which hassent global energy prices soaring, has also trapped the largely invisible workforce that keeps the world's maritime trade afloat, prolonging their time away from their families and putting their lives at risk. At least seven seafarers have been killed and several others have been severely injured in what the U.N. says were Iranian attacks on commercial vessels.

"The world has relied on these people to keep trade moving under impossible conditions," said Angad Banga, chief executive of the Caravel Group, a Hong Kong-based shipping conglomerate. Caravel's subsidiary company, Fleet Management Limited, manages more than 600 ships, including some that are stuck in the Gulf.

It has already been a difficult few years for the world's nearly 2 million seafarers, who mostly come from thePhilippines,Indiaand other Asian nations. During the Covid pandemic, they were confined to their ships for long periods, unable to take breaks on shore because of border restrictions that many countries imposed.

Their work and mental health were further disrupted when Houthi rebels in Yemen beganattacking ships in the Red Sea, with at least nine sailors killed and 11 othersheld captive for five months.

"The moment the crises fade from the headlines, the world forgets they exist, and that cycle has to break," Banga added.

The International Maritime Organization, the U.N.'s maritime agency, hasconfirmed18 incidents of damage to commercial vessels from March 1 to 19 in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. In one instance March 11, there was an explosion on a Thai-flagged ship after it was hit by projectiles and 20 of its crew members had to be rescued, withthree still missingFriday as Iranian state media reported the ship had run aground off Iran's Qeshm Island. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said the ship had ignored "warnings."

Even if their vessels are not directly hit, the stranded seafarers can only watch in fear as Iran trades strikes with the U.S. and Israel.

In the incident Tuesday, the sailor said, he heard missile strikes for nearly half an hour and counted more than a dozen explosions.

"I was initially in the engine room so I didn't know what was going on," he said. "When I came up to the deck, I saw the rest of my crew watching the rockets fly by, which would be followed by explosions in the distance."

"I could see when they were hitting the ground, see smoke rise and feel the impact through the ship," he added.

The same day, Banga's firm showed NBC News just how bad the situation has become.

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Inside Fleet Management's headquarters in a Hong Kong office tower, in a room known as "the Bridge," hundreds of white dots appeared across eight screens that formed a giant maritime world map, each representing a vessel under the group's management.

The contrast is stark: While normally about 130 ships would pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily, some of them Fleet Management's, virtually none are able to get through now. Several ships awaiting passage were visible on the screen.

As the stranded seafarers struggle to keep their spirits up, Banga said his firm has been conducting regular check-ins with crew members, who try to maintain somewhat of a routine that includes leisure activities and maintenance work on their ships.

"They exercise, they watch movies, some play basketball on the deck, sit there," he said.

"When the routine breaks down is when people start to unravel," he added. "The sun goes down, and that's when the fear comes because most of the attacks happen in the dark."

On Tuesday, the vessel tracking website MarineTraffic said in apost on Xthat only nine ships had passed through the strait since the day before, with apparent Iranian support.

One of them was a Chinese-owned vessel that successfully transited the waterway Monday.

A video shot by one of the sailors onboard the ship, shared on Chinese social media platform Douyin and geolocated by NBC News, showed the tanker passing through a narrow section of the strait off the coast of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

The sailor panned the camera around the ship, showing small speedboats in the distance that were escorting his ship and at least three other tankers in an apparent convoy.

"We can see some large tankers. Not sure why they decided to anchor here," the sailor filming the video can be heard saying in Mandarin in another video, pointing to the Iranian coastline and some high-rise buildings visible in the distance.

"I can't shoot any videos outside anymore. It's dangerous. Let's hide in the cabin quickly," he says.

NBC News reached out to the vessel's manager for comment.

Iran said this week that "non-hostile vessels" would be allowed safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iranian authorities.

"As we repeatedly emphasized, the Strait of Hormuz remains open, and maritime traffic has not been suspended," the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry wrote in a letter to the U.N. seen by NBC News. "Navigation continues, subject to compliance with the necessary measures referenced above and the realities arising from the ongoing conflict."

The letter defines "non-hostile vessels" as those that "neither participate in nor support acts of aggression against Iran." It did not say which countries qualify, though it said vessels "belonging to the aggressor parties," namely the U.S. and Israel, did not.

The sailor stuck in Iraqi waters is hoping his ship will be able to leave soon.

"My family is panicking," he said. "We've packed all our bags and are ready the moment someone calls us."

During the first of her two-partTodayinterviewwithHoda Kotb,Savannah Guthrieopened up about how her motherNancy Guthrie's disappearance has taken a toll on her two youngchildren.

"What do they know?" Kotb asked in part of theinterviewthat aired inToday's 8 a.m. ET hour on Thursday, March 26. Savannah — who shares her daughter, Vale, and son, Charley, with her husband,Michael Feldman— replied, "It's so hard with kids because, you know, you want to protect them."

She added, "Vale would write me all the time, [saying,] 'Mama, any leads? You hear anything? Any hope?' And I think that, you know, we try to talk to them and try to give them a little more certainty than we have, to let them grieve."

Nancy was last seen at her home in Tucson, Arizona, on January 31, and wasreported missingthe following day.No suspects have beennamed as the investigation reaches the two-month mark. Savannah has been absent fromTodaysince the search began and remained in Arizona with her family beforereturningto New York earlier this month.

In addition to her own children, Savannah also noted how the case has affected her nephew. "There's just a way in which this is even so much harder onAnnie [Guthrie]and [her husband] Tommy [Cioni] and [their son] because they're there, and they were there every day for my mom," she stated. "They made it possible for her to stay in the house we grew up in, that she loved so much. I think she always stayed in that house because I think she still felt my father there, all our memories."

She continued, "[They] let her have her space, and there's just a way in which this is just even more excruciating for them and all that they've been through."

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In an earlier part of theinterviewthat aired duringToday's 7 a.m. ET hour, Savannah revealed that she and Feldman had returned home from separate weekend activities when they first learned Nancy was missing. While Feldman was enjoying a "boys' trip to go play tennis" she gifted him for Christmas, Savannah took their kids toCarson Daly's house for a "fun night."

Kotb also asked how Savannah reacted toonline speculationthat members of her family were to blame for Nancy's disappearance. (The Guthrie family has beenclearedas suspects.)

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"It's unbearable, and it piles pain upon pain. There are no words. There are no words. I don't understand. I'll never understand," she stated. "And no one took better care of my mom than my sister and brother-in-law, and no one protected my mom more than my brother. And we love her, and she is our shining light. She's our matriarch. She's all we have."

More of Savannah and Kotb's conversation will be aired in the Friday, March 27, episode ofToday.

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Hollywood'sGolden Agespawned some of the biggest and brightest stars to illuminate the screen, but for many, that light was snuffed out before its time.

The actors and actresses who defined the period, which spanned from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, often died young and under mysterious circumstances.

Some, likeRebel Without a Causestar Sal Mineo, were killed in suspicious conditions, while the others were seemingly accidents, like Mineo's costarNatalie Wood, who disappeared before drowning, with her recovered remains bringing more questions than answers.

"The bottom line is that nobody knows exactly what happened," Wood's husband,Robert Wagner, wrote in his 2008 memoir,Pieces of My Heart: A Life. (The actor, once named a "person of interest" in her death, was cleared of all involvement in 2022.)

FromMarilyn Monroe's shocking suicide to the unexplainedBlack Dahlia murder, these are the most mysterious deaths of Hollywood's Golden Age actors.

Marilyn Monroe

Monroe was arguably the most famous woman in the world at the time of her death in August 1962.

Hercause of deathwas ruled "probable suicide" by overdose, with a toxicology report confirming high levels of prescription sedatives Nembutal and chloral hydrate in the 36-year-old's system.

With no pill residue found in her stomach, however, forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht told PEOPLE in 2012 that "she might have been injected" with the substances.

Reports thatRobert F. Kennedywas the last to see Monroe alive, having allegedlyvisited her on the night of her deathto break off their rumored affair, also aroused suspicion, with the case being reopened in 1982.

It was closed several months later, with investigators upholding the original ruling.

PerThe New York Times, District Attorney John Van de Kamp said in an official statement: ''Based on the evidence available to us, it appears that her death could have been a suicide or a result of an accidental drug overdose."

Elizabeth Short

Elizabeth Short's death on Jan. 15, 1947, remains one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history.

Dubbed the "Black Dahlia" for her dark hair and clothing, the aspiring actress's body was found cut in half in a vacant Los Angeles lot and drained of blood.

The Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI investigated more than 150 suspects in connection with the killing, including Dr. George Hodel, who reportedly dated the 22-year-old before her death, and Marvin Margolis, a World War II veteran who had allegedly lived with Short before her murder.

Hodel's son Steve penned a 2003 book,Black Dahlia Avenger, accusing his father of the murder. TheLos Angeles Timesreported that George was also recorded saying, "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary because she's dead."

Code breakers, meanwhile, have since alleged that a cipher in the unrelatedZodiac killingsspelled out the name Marvin Merrill, an alias assumed by Margolis after he was investigated for Short's murder.

With only circumstantial evidence to go on, however, no suspects were ever charged with Short's murder. According to theFBI, "The murderer has never been found, and given how much time has passed, probably never will be."

Natalie Wood

When Wood's body was discovered floating in a cove one mile from the yacht she had been aboard with Wagner, their friendChristopher Walkenand their skipper Dennis Davern near Catalina Island, Calif., it was anything but an open-and-shut case.

The circumstances surroundingthe 43-year-old's death, which was originally ruled an "accidental drowning," were so mysterious that the case was reopened in 2011, 30 years after the Nov. 29, 1981, incident.

According to Davern, theRebel Without a Causeactress and Wagner had been in an argument just before she disappeared from the boat.

Wood was found with bruises on her arms and legs and a blood alcohol level of 0.14%. A 2013 coroner's report stated that the injuries may have occurred prior to her drowning.

Though Wagner has written in his memoir that he believes Wood accidentally slipped and fell into the water while trying to leave in a dinghy after their argument, Davern has said he believes Wagner was involved in her disappearance.

The cause of death wasruled "suspicious" following new witness leads in 2018, but Wagner was officially cleared of involvement by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in 2022.

"All leads in the Natalie Wood case have been exhausted, and the case remains an open, unsolved case," Lieutenant Hugo Reynaga toldPage Sixat the time.

George Reeves

On June 16, 1959, George Reeves, known for his role as the Golden AgeSuperman,died of a gunshot woundto the head.

His death was officially ruled a suicide, but many had their doubts. "No one in Hollywood believed the suicide story," Reeves's friend Rory Calhoun told a reporter at the time, perThe U.S. Sun.

TheLos Angeles Timesreported on several inconsistencies in the evidence, including two additional bullet holes that had been fired by Reeves' murder weapon independently of the fatal shot.

Reeves' fiancée Leonore Lemmon told police she had fired one of the bullets "accidentally" several days prior, but the other remained unexplained.

Lemmon, who was hosting guests in a separate room from Reeves at the time of the incident, also reportedly announced to her friends that they would soon "hear a gun" after Reeves had come out to ask them to leave, telling them, "Now you will hear the shot."

The gun rang out shortly after, though Lemmon later claimed to have been "only kidding."

According to theLos AngelesTimes, Reeves's body was embalmed before an autopsy could be performed, and his hands were never tested for powder burns to indicate that he fired the gun.

The case was never reopened.

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Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd was a highly prolific actress in the golden age of Hollywood. According to theLos Angeles Times, she starred in roughly 120 films from 1926 to 1935.

Her death in December 1935 at age 29 made her infamous, however. Found unconscious in the front seat of her Lincoln convertible with the key turned on in the ignition, Todd's death was ruled an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

Investigators theorized that Todd had been locked out of her home and decided to spend the night in her car, falling asleep with it running for warmth. Yet theChicago Tribunereported that she was also found with a broken nose, bruises around her throat and two cracked ribs.

The public had even more questions after it was reported by theLos Angeles Timesthat Todd was being extorted for $10,000 and threatened with death ahead of the incident, with two arrests having been made in the case as recently as the month before her death, perThe Rocky Mountain News.

With authorities discovering no concrete evidence of foul play, the carbon monoxide ruling was upheld.

Albert Dekker

Known for Broadway productions likeDeath of a Salesmanand films likeKiss Me Deadly, Albert Dekker was a character actor with dozens of acting credits to his name and a former liberal legislator.

On May 5, 1968, he died of suffocation at the age of 62, with his body found hanging from the shower rod of his bathroom.

But several details struck investigators as odd. According toThe New York Times, the rope from which he hung had also been wrapped around his legs and one of his arms. Dekker had also been handcuffed.

TheLos Angeles Timesalso reported that the door had been secured with an interior chain lock.

Additionally, two hypodermic needles were found "in the body" per the coroner, who said in a statement, "We have no information that the individual planned to take his own life, so it will tentatively be listed as an accidental death."

Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard, the latewife of Clark Gable, was on board TWA Flight 3 on Jan. 16, 1942, when it crashed into Mount Potosi in Nevada.

Cited as one of the highest-paid actresses of her time byTIME, Lombard's sudden death at 33 was not only a shock, it was investigated by the FBI, who worried that the incident might not have been an accident, but rather an act of sabotage.

Taking place just two weeks after thebombing of Pearl Harbor, the government was on high alert. According to Robert Matzen, the author of the 2013 bookFireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3, who spoke toNPR, the FBI had also reportedly received numerous tips that a bomb had been placed on the plane.

The crash was ultimately attributed to "pilot error," though the pilot was the airline's most experienced, with 15,000 hours of airtime.

According to Matzen, the plane had taken off from McCarran Airfield (now Nellis Air Force Base), where it had been diverted for refueling.

"I have a hypothesis that it was a thousand little things that added up to disaster," he told the outlet. "Something as simple as: on the DC 3, if the interior lights are on in the cockpit they reflect on the windscreen and you can't see objects outside."

Sal Mineo

Wood'sRebel Without a Causecostar Sal Mineo also died in an unusual manner.

The actor, who was 37 years old at the time of his death, was fatally stabbed in the heart near his apartment in West Hollywood. According toThe New York Times, he died of a massive hemorrhage from the wound.

Though neighbors heard his screams, there were no eyewitnesses to the murder. A male was reported fleeing the scene.

Lionel Williams was convicted of Mineo's murder, perThe New York Times, along with 10 counts of robbery in 1979, after he was allegedly overheard telling a prison inmate about the crime by a prison guard. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Williams has long maintained his innocence, allegedly telling reporters that he knew nothing about Mineo's death.

Bob Crane

Bob Crane, known for his role as Colonel Robert E. Hogan onHogan's Heroes, met a tragic and unusual end on June 29, 1978.

The actor was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment in Scottsdale, Ariz., with two large gashes above his left ear and an electrical cord tied around his neck.

The manner of death was ruled a homicide, but the case was never officially solved.

With no sign of forced entry, perEntertainment Weekly, evidence pointed to a known suspect.

Crane had also been spotted arguing with his friend John Carpenter, who allegedly fueled his reported porn addiction, just hours before his murder.

"They had a breakup, of sorts," Crane's son, Robert Crane, told the outlet. "Carpenter lost it. He was being rejected, he was being spurned like a lover. There are eyewitnesses that night at a club in Scottsdale that said they had an argument."

Scottsdale detective Barry Vassall told the outlet that blood was also found in Carpenter's rental car and on the passenger door. "It was Crane's blood type," he said. "Nobody else who handled that car had the same blood type as Crane. It was type B blood, all of it."

Years later, Scottsdale detective Jim Raines found a crime scene photo that showed a speck of brain tissue in Carpenter's car, which was ruled admissible by a judge.

Carpenter was formally charged with Crane's murder in 1992, but was acquitted two years later due to a lack of enough evidence.

Carpenter maintained his innocence until his death in 1998.

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