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ORIGINAL: burniegoeasily
I bet he didnt get assasinated, he is hanging out with Phillip Taylor Kramer.
Anyone know Kramers story????
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On February 12, 1995 he drove to
Los Angeles International Airport to pick up an investor in his again failing company but failed to make the appointment or return home. Kramer did make a flurry of cell phone calls, including one to the
police during which Kramer said, "I"™m going to kill myself. And I want everyone to know
O.J. Simpson is innocent. They did it."
Some people close to Kramer, and his company believe that the
O.J. Simpson comment was reference to a conversation which took place in Colorado Springs where one of the attendees predicted O.J. Simpson's innocence.
He was never heard from again. This led to a massive search and many news reports, talk show segments (including an episode of
The Oprah Winfrey Show) and even an episode on
Unsolved Mysteries some years later.
There was wild speculation, fueled by his longtime friend and Iron Butterfly co-founder
Ron Bushy, that agents from the
United States government had abducted Kramer. Bushy, who had been talking with Kramer about a reunion tour for the band, told the
Union Tribune, "I honestly believe that he has been abducted by our government or an agency that is part of it or maybe a foreign government or a company."
Ohio Democrat Rep.
James Traficant is reported to have said, "Someone may have grabbed him," suggesting he might have been brainwashed by
terrorists for "nefarious purposes."
On
May 29,
1999, Kramer's
minivan and skeletal remains were found by photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at the bottom of
Decker Canyon near
Malibu,
California. Based on forensic evidence and Kramer's emergency call to the police, his death was ruled as a probable
suicide committed on the day on which he was last heard.