did Robert Crane from Hogan's hero's commit suicide?

During the run of Hogan's Heroes, Crane met John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert who sold VCRs. Carpenter is alleged to have turned Crane onto a life of sex and early pornographic movies made by the two. Although Crane's family contests this version of the story, it is a fact that Crane made home videotapes of numerous sexual orgies, using video technology supplied by Carpenter, with Carpenter also usually participating in the orgies. Crane is known to have made pornographic films as early as 1956.[citation needed]

On one late night in 1978, Crane allegedly called Carpenter to tell him that their friendship was over. The following day, Crane was discovered violently bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never found but believed to be a camera tripod at the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he had been appearing in a dinner theatre production of a play entitled Beginner's Luck at the Windmill Dinner Theatre.

According to an episode of A&E's Cold Case Files on the subject, police officers who arrived at the scene of the crime noted that Carpenter called the residence several times and didn't seem surprised that the police were there. This immediately raised suspicion against Carpenter, and the car he had rented the previous day was impounded by the police. In the car several blood smears were found that matched Crane's blood type. At that time DNA testing didn't exist to confirm if it was Crane's blood or not. Due to the lack of evidence the district attorney declined to file charges and the case went cold.

Fourteen years after the murder in 1992 the case was reopened. An attempt to test the blood found in the car Carpenter rented failed to produce a result due to improper preservation of the evidence. The detective in charge instead hoped a picture of what appeared to be a piece of unidentified material taken off the rental car (the physical bit of unidentified material had been lost) would incriminate Carpenter. He was arrested and indicted. During Carpenter's trial in 1994, the prosecution showed videotape of Crane and Carpenter engaging in sex with the same woman to demonstrate their close relationship. Carpenter was acquitted. Both the murder and the motive remain officially unsolved. Carpenter maintained his innocence until his death on September 4 1998.

Bob Crane did not commit suicide. His head was caved in with a video camera tripod while he was in bed, presumably, asleep. This happened at a time when he was doing dinner theater in Arizona. It is believed that a male friend of his who liked hanging around with Crane did the deed as Crane was seeking to end their friendship. Crane was a "chick magnet" and very interested in video taping his encounters with women. This friend of Crane's used to pick up the "leftovers" that Crane didn't sleep with and thus the reason for his being angry when Crane wanted to end the friendship.

no, he was brutally murdered