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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:32 PM Oct 2019

Son of Ron Ely, Actor Who Played Tarzan, Kills His Mother and Is Fatally Shot by Deputies, Official

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/tarzan-ron-ely.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur


Ron Ely, left, with the producer George Pal in Hollywood, Calif., in 1975.CreditCreditKeystone/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

The killings took place at the Santa Barbara home that the actor shared with his wife.

By Heather Murphy
Oct. 16, 2019
Updated 6:59 p.m. ET

The son of the actor Ron Ely, who starred in the 1960s television series “Tarzan,” killed his mother on Tuesday in Santa Barbara, Calif., before being fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies when he threatened them, the authorities said Wednesday.

Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62, died from stab wounds inside the home in Hope Ranch, a suburb of Santa Barbara, that she had shared with her husband, Mr. Ely, 81.

Sheriff’s deputies, who received a call at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday about a family disturbance at the home, found the body and identified the couple’s son, Cameron Ely, 30, as the suspect in the killing, the sheriff’s office said.

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Son of Ron Ely, Actor Who Played Tarzan, Kills His Mother and Is Fatally Shot by Deputies, Official (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Oct 2019 OP
WOW Iliyah Oct 2019 #1
How terribly sad. Glorfindel Oct 2019 #2
+1 Demovictory9 Oct 2019 #6
I heard about this earlier MustLoveBeagles Oct 2019 #3
I sat next to Ron Ely on a flight back to NY from Paris. madaboutharry Oct 2019 #4
she was a former Miss Florida Skittles Oct 2019 #5
Oh terrible tragedy at an age when one hopes to have escaped some of the worst, if indeed one has emmaverybo Oct 2019 #7
Ely also starred in the film Doc Savage: Man of Bronze, based on the series of pulp novels. TeamPooka Oct 2019 #8

madaboutharry

(40,153 posts)
4. I sat next to Ron Ely on a flight back to NY from Paris.
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:45 PM
Oct 2019

The airline messed up my flight so they put me in first class.

He is very nice man. I feel terrible for him.

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
7. Oh terrible tragedy at an age when one hopes to have escaped some of the worst, if indeed one has
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 09:09 PM
Oct 2019

been so lucky, and just get a bit of peace.

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