Obituary: Actor Johnny Crawford, 75, known for his role as Chuck Connors' son in the TV western The Rifleman, has died. He was reported to have had Alzheimer's disease and died from COVID and pneumonia.
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Born in Los Angeles on March 26, 1946, John Ernest Crawford did a tap-dancing routine, showed producers he could fence — his dad was a state champion — and imitated singer Johnnie Ray during his audition for ABC's The Mickey Mouse Club.
That got him a job as one of the 24 original Mouseketeers for the first season (1955-56) of the show. However, when the number of kids was reduced by half for season two, his option was not picked up.
"I was a has-been at 9," he said in 1982. "I told my agent that I would have worked at Disney for nothing. That's when she told me that I was working for them for nothing.
"[But] being able to go in and say that I had just finished working for a year as a Mouseketeer was to my benefit, because there weren't many 9-year-olds who had experience in film. It gave me a certain confidence that I hadn't had before, and I started getting a few small parts."
After 41 years of dead ends, investigators used DNA and genetic testing technology to identify and arrest a New Mexico man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 79-year-old grandmother whose body was found in her Anaheim apartment in 1980.
New Mexico State Police arrested Andre William Lepere, 64, at his home in Alamogordo, New Mexico on Wednesday in the death of Viola Hagenkord.
He was being held without bail at an Otero County jail as he awaits an extradition hearing, Anaheim police said.
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