For those who are roughly my age, you may know actor Ron Ely. Though his heyday was a little before my time, I caught his work here and there and enjoyed it.
He Is perhaps best known for playing Tarzan in a TV series of the same name which aired from 1966-68…
A little later, in 1975, he would play famous Pulp hero Doc Savage in the film of the same name…
In truth, while those two features are what Ron Ely is best known for he acted in many other movies and TV shows from 1958 to 2014.
Now 81 years old, this bit of news appeared on CNN and its a wild story…
Police fatally shot a homicide suspect at “Tarzan” actor Ron Ely’s home in California
The basic story is this (and pardon me for giving the information away): Someone stabbed an elderly woman to death at Ron Ely’s home. The woman’s husband, who has a speech impediment due to a medical condition, nonetheless was able to indicate the killer was a family member. The indicated family member was subsequently found on the property, confronted, and posed enough of a threat to the police that they took him down.
Yes, the alleged killer him/herself was killed.
That’s the extent of the report to this point and anything else is speculation…
Having said that, I can’t help but wonder if the woman’s husband may well be Mr. Ely (who is, obviously by this point, elderly himself). The speech impediment due to a medical condition, sadly, makes me wonder if the person suffered a stroke.
Was the killer the son/daughter of the elderly woman?
Again, its all speculation at this point yet a very sad set of circumstances, regardless of whether they more directly involved Mr. Ely or not.
UPDATE:
Well, it now seems that the situation was as I speculated above. Ron Ely’s wife Valerie was stabbed to death by the couple’s son Cameron Ely. The police arrived on the scene and killed Cameron Ely.
This is all according to TMZ and the article can be found here.
A very, very sad set of circumstances.
Obviously I have no knowledge of the Ely family situation and clearly things went way overboard here for the son to murder his mother.
The weird thing is that apparently Cameron was the one that originally called the police and, again according to the TMZ article above, said it was his father -Ron Ely- that tried to attack his mother. Was Cameron trying to pin the blame of his mother’s murder on Ron Ely?
Regardless, the police arrived and somehow figured out Cameron was the one that killed his mother and then they killed him.
Wow. And damn.
Some days you just can’t believe the news you read.