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In a Godda Da Vida - are you kidding me?

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His body was found around Santa Monica in 1999. He had apparently driven his car off the road and into a canyon. Or maybe that's just what they want us to think.
 
AnnetteMarie said:
while checking out the spelling of Iron Butterfly's only hit carrying a monster drum solo so I could post a quick quip in the alien's music thread, I stumbled upon this link to an article from Skeptic Magazine back in 1996.

Who knew?

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cach...+godda+da+vida"&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&lr=lang_en
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AnnetteMarie,

Thank you for posting that. You jogged my memory about Philip Taylor Kramer. We covered that in UFO Magazine at the time. If I recall, I interviewed Kramer's sister about the case. There was, at the time, a ton of speculation that more happened than a simple auto crash. Supposedly, according to some, Kramer ran afoul of sinister forces on his FTL work. Who knows? Gee, it was awhile ago.

Decker
 
I just find it incredibly interesting when I discover entertainers' secret lives, not that this was such a huge secret, but sometimes their 'mundane' lives are so much more intriguing than their celebrity days.
 
AnnetteMarie said:
I just find it incredibly interesting when I discover entertainers' secret lives, not that this was such a huge secret, but sometimes their 'mundane' lives are so much more intriguing than their celebrity days.[/QUOTE
Cranking out the hits is all nuts-and-bolts if you know the formula.
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Why di wikipedia links show up as wikimedia errors? .... grrr.... time to google some more :)

Death

On February 12, 1995 he drove to Los Angeles International Airport to pick up an investor. He spent forty-five minutes at the airport but failed to meet the investor. 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."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[5]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Maxim.2C_The_Vanishing_2-3" class="reference">[3]</sup>
He was never heard from again. This led to a massive search, many news reports, and talk show segments including an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Most Wanted, and Unsolved Mysteries some years later.<sup id="cite_ref-Leiby_1996_0-1" class="reference">[1]</sup> An article in Skeptic reported numerous conspiracy theories about his death.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[6]</sup> In 2000, Kramer was featured on an episode of The Unexplained ("Strange Disappearances").
On May 29, 1999, Kramer's Ford Aerostar minivan and skeletal remains were found<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[7]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[8]</sup> by photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California.<sup id="cite_ref-Maxim.2C_The_Vanishing_2-4" class="reference">[3]</sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[9]</sup>
 
The odds are it was simply a mundane and tragic mental breakdown and suicide.
On the other hand, that smug Dr. Rothman is sure looking foolish in the light of hindsight, given the number of developments in physics and cosmology over the last decade that indicate we still have a lot to learn (Dark Matter and Dark Engergy anyone?). In fact he reminds me of those academics who were confidently assuring people that rocks do not fall from the sky.
 
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