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    Wow. That's really sad.




    LOS ANGELES — A judge on Monday ordered an investigation into the whereabouts of Casey Kasem after an attorney for the ailing radio personality’s wife said the former “Top 40″ host had been removed from the country.

    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel S. Murphy ordered a court investigator and adult protective services to find out where Kasem is being treated and report back to the court. Kasem, 82, suffers from advanced Parkinson’s disease, can no longer speak and has been in various medical facilities chosen by his wife, Jean Kasem.

    Casey Kasem’s children have complained that they have been unable to see their father in accordance with an agreement with their stepmother. Daughter Kerri Kasem had sought a temporary conservatorship and was appointed her father’s temporary caretaker on Monday. Her attorney, Troy Martin, said the family believes the entertainer has been taken to an Indian reservation in Washington state.

    Murphy’s order came after Craig Marcus, an attorney who appeared on Jean Kasem’s behalf at Monday’s hearing, said he did not know where the radio personality was but knew that he had been removed from the country.
    I had no idea he had Parkinson's. I did know that there had been some family strife, but I thought that was all over ages ago.
    It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
    In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
    Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
    Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now
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    How can somebody be so cruel as to try to keep the kids away?

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      I'm praying for Casey and the kids.

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      • #4
        Kasem died early this morning.

        Very sad for him to go out with this family feud going on.
        It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
        In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
        Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
        Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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        • #5
          Another end of an era. I remember listening to him count down the top 100 for the year on New Year's Eve...but I never realized it was the first time he did it! I just thought he was another part of life in the big city (DC suburbs) that we'd been missing in our small town. Up until then, we had lived in a town with one music station, that played a narrow mix of top 40 and country (NO Motown, for sure), and for anything else, you had to catch the atmospheric conditions just right to pull in the Baltimore station that featured Johnny Dark. I think Kasem was syndicated on WEAM (1390 AM - why can I remember the station's call sign and not a bunch of actually important things?) but it might have been WPGC. We hadn't yet discovered FM radio. Singles were 99 cents at Waxie Maxie's and the only albums I owned were Joan Baez and the Beatles. The guy who sat behind me in Chemistry sang lead for the band that played teen club every Friday night and the guy who sat in front of me taught me all of Tom Lehrer's songs (I hear from a mutual acquaintance that Charlie became a professional drag queen and Brent teaches ballroom dance). I smelled pot for the first time at a party that summer while the kid running the record player played "Mama Told Me Not to Come." It was the first time I had ever lied to my parents about whether there would be adults at the home where the party was. Nova was starting junior high and dj'd all the parties at our house; my mom would let us roll up the rugs and put black lights in the living room. I bought my first motorcycle (a 50cc Bridgestone that was street-legal back then) with the money I made lifeguarding that summer.
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          • #6
            This just gets uglier and uglier. So the wife has been moving the body around, hiding his body from his children. For some time, he was in a private morgue in Montréal, and now he's apparently going to be buried in Norway.

            It does look awfully suspicious that Jean seems to be doing everything she can to avoid an autopsy.
            It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
            In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
            Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
            Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Adam View Post
              This just gets uglier and uglier. So the wife has been moving the body around, hiding his body from his children. For some time, he was in a private morgue in Montréal, and now he's apparently going to be buried in Norway.

              It does look awfully suspicious that Jean seems to be doing everything she can to avoid an autopsy.
              That should be illegal.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Lanie View Post
                That should be illegal.
                It is. It's in defiance of court orders. The problem is that those orders don't extend across international borders.
                It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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