No murder - TV Exec Fell On 9-Yr Old Daughter

by **proldic** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:30 pm

This is an extension of this thread from the "Assassinations.." part of the archives: <a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm13.showMessage?topicID=24.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...D=24.topic</a> KTLA-LA Times-AP Aug 25 '05 Deaths of Producer, Child an Accident CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. — A Hollywood producer found dead in his car suffered a heart attack, then fell on top of his young daughter who suffocated, according to a coroner's report. The body of Terry Carr, 62, fell onto his 9-year-old sleeping daughter, leaving her unable to escape or breathe, according to Lake County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Russ Perdock. Carr and his daughter, Arieka, were found dead Aug. 1 in the cargo area of their Jeep Grand Cherokee. Carr weighed about 212 pounds and his daughter was about 53 pounds, Perdock said. The vehicle was found parked at a convenience store in Clearlake Oaks a day after Carr abandoned his wife at a grocery store in Ashland, Ore. Clearlake Oaks is about 280 miles south of Ashland. Although Carr had not worked on a film for several years, he remained a well-known producer and screenwriter. His movie credit list included "The Boost," "The Innocents," "Yes, Giorgio," "Coast to Coast," "Welcome to 18," "An Almost Perfect Affair" and "The Bad News Bears Go to Japan." He and his family recently had left Los Angeles in search of a more tranquil lifestyle in Oregon, family members told The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat. The autopsy report completed Tuesday solved the mystery of the deaths, but failed to explain other puzzling questions raised during the investigation. Chikako Carr, 50, said she had no idea why her husband took off while she was in a restroom. He also dumped a box of belongings, including important personal papers and photos, in a pasture on the outskirts of Ashland a few days before he was found dead. At the time, Chikako Carr thought it was done to symbolize leaving behind their old life in Los Angeles, according to Brent Jensen, an Ashland police detective. Authorities also don't know why Carr drove to Clearlake Oaks. His brother, John, lives there, but he said he had not heard from Carr, Perdock said. <a href="http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-producer25aug25,0,6838705.story?coll=ktla-newslocal-1">ktla.trb.com/news/local/l...ewslocal-1</a>

by **proldic** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:37 pm

KTLA- LA Times Aug 25 '05: Man Vanishes After Frantic Call to Friend Police search Topanga Canyon for clues to the fate of the music producer who told his former partner that people were after him. By Jill Leovy Times Staff Writer August 25, 2005 Search parties combed the dry hills of Topanga Canyon on Wednesday looking for a music producer whose mysterious flight from his home three days earlier might have been connected to a common Internet scam... In a frantic phone call before his disappearance, Christian Julian Irwin, 48, pleaded for help, telling a friend he was being chased down a ravine by people who he believed might kill him, police said. The call, about 3:45 a.m. Sunday, was his last; no one is known to have heard from him since. Investigators have few clues besides Irwin's glasses, found halfway down the hill behind his house, where it is believed that they fell as he ran. Irwin's friends and relatives say his pursuers may be linked to con artists who had entangled him in a so-called Nigerian Internet scam. These are common e-mail swindles that often involve appeals for advance money to help transfer large sums out of Nigeria. The victim is promised a share of the supposed fortune in exchange for his or her help. Irwin reportedly told a friend months ago that he feared such scam artists might be after him. Sheriff's Sgt. Bill Marsh, one of the detectives on the Irwin case, said that, so far, the Internet scam story was only a theory. He said police had yet to identify any suspects. But Irwin's friends and relatives clung Wednesday to whatever information they could after what they said was a baffling turn in the life of an athletic and outgoing man. Nearly a dozen relatives, including several siblings, have arrived from out of town to aid in the search, hoping that Irwin may still be found alive. They joined deputies searching the brushy canyon — where Irwin is thought to have disappeared — several miles up the road from the ocean. One of seven children of a former New Jersey state assemblyman, now deceased, Irwin grew up in Mountainside, N.J., and attended Syracuse University in New York, said his stepmother, Louise Irwin, who was waiting on a dusty pull-off along Topanga Canyon Boulevard as searchers moved down the canyon. He moved to the Los Angeles area about eight years ago, she said. According to Irwin's online resume, he has worked with such musicians as David Bowie, David Crosby, Art Garfunkel and Carly Simon. The resume says his production enterprises have been nominated for three Grammy Awards, but that could not be confirmed by a Grammy spokeswoman. Irwin has also scored music for television and radio commercials, according to his resume, and run a Topanga-based recording studio called Treefort. Several months ago, Irwin told his friend and former business partner Fortunato Procopio, 47, that he had been unwittingly drawn into a Nigerian Internet fraud and had been threatened by the con artists, Procopio said. "I told him it was clearly a scam — don't be silly," Procopio said Wednesday. But Irwin later received a mysterious $50,000 check, friends and relatives said, and became increasingly concerned. Procopio and some relatives offered few details, saying police had asked them not to discuss specifics of the case. On Sunday morning, Procopio said, he was awakened in his Venice home by a phone call that was picked up by his answering machine. When he played the recording, he heard Irwin asking for help. Irwin said he was in hiding and someone was in close pursuit. Procopio said he tried calling Irwin on his cellphone but couldn't reach him. Concerned, he said, he and his girlfriend began driving up Pacific Coast Highway toward Irwin's home in Topanga. On the way, Procopio's cellphone rang. It was Irwin, Procopio said, telling him that he had been chased from his house down a ravine in back by people and possibly dogs. He told Procopio he was barefoot, having lost his shoes, and feared for his life, the friend said. Procopio added that Irwin connected his pursuers to the Internet scam, but did not elaborate. "He was on the run, in the woods and very afraid," Procopio said. The friend said he told Irwin he was coming to pick him up, and "we would put on our flashers so he could see us on the road." Irwin agreed, but "was afraid to reveal himself until he saw us," Procopio said. "He was really, really afraid," Procopio added. "He believed these guys were close behind him, and whoever it was, if they caught him, they would kill him." After a second cellphone call, in which Irwin said he was running downstream along Topanga Creek, Procopio didn't hear from him again. Irwin's brother-in-law, John Riolo of Carlsbad, said sheriff's dogs tracked Irwin's scent from his home, down the ravine to a propane shop on Topanga Canyon Boulevard where he is believed to have first phoned Procopio. The dogs then tracked the scent across the street and into the small canyon below. A short distance along the canyon creek, they lost the trail. Irwin is described as 6 feet 2 and 190 pounds with graying brown hair and blue eyes. He is believed to have been wearing a red and blue shirt and bluejeans. Relatives described him as a likable, compassionate man who was closely bound to friends and family and was in good physical shape, favoring organic food and tennis. They were struggling to understand the bizarre circumstances surrounding his disappearance, which seem at odds with his life and character. "He is a great brother-in-law, just a real well-mannered, stable … mature kind of guy," Riolo said. "It doesn't make any sense to me," Procopio said. "It's so hard to imagine how things would have escalated to this from this Internet thing." <a href="http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-topanga25aug25,0,5100301.story?coll=ktla-newslocal-1">ktla.trb.com/news/local/l...ewslocal-1</a>

by **proldic** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:50 pm

SF Gate Aug 26 '05 Headline: "Search dogs, divers search for missing music producer" Investigators guided by seven tracking dogs searched... rural Topanga Canyon on Friday for signs of a music producer who vanished last weekend after making a panicked phone call to a friend. Sheriff's deputies came across a suspicious area of trampled brush but could not determine if it had anything to do with the disappearance of Christian Julian Irwin, 48, a resident of the area who has produced recordings for Carly Simon and David Bowie, among others. Police have not discounted any theories on Irwin's fate, including the possibility that he was enmeshed in an Internet scam... "Nothing has been found that would make us move toward a specific area — that's why we are having to comb the entire mountainside," said Richard Pena, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "They did find some trails of broken brush that didn't necessarily look like an animal made them, but that could be anybody," Pena said... Authorities were alerted after the Grammy-nominated producer used his cell phone to call a friend early Sunday, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX saying he was being pursued by people with dogs. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX He told his friend he was running through water and had lost his glasses and shoes in a creek. Irwin grew up in Mountainside, N.J., one of seven children of Charles Julian Irwin, a former Republican state assemblyman who represented Union County from 1968 to 1971 and died in March. He was a record producer in Manhattan until about eight years ago, when he moved to Los Angeles. "It is really shocking to us. We can't make any sense of it," Irwin's half brother, Charles Irwin, 25, told the Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.J. Topanga Canyon, a rustic area long a favorite with artists and musicians, is about 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles in the Santa Monica Mountains. <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/08/26/state/n115226D51.DTL">sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...226D51.DTL</a>

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