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Stand up comedian, actor, television host and director, Robert Lane Saget, best known as Bob Saget, was born to Benjamin (8/28/1917-1/30/07) and Rosalyn "Dolly" (2/12/1925-2/15/14) Saget in 1956 Father Benjamin was a supermarket exec and mother Rosalyn was a hospital administrator. While Bob grew up in Encino CA, he moved back to PA and graduated form high school there in 1975. He intended to become a doctor but his high school English teacher encourage him to pursue acting, which he thankfully did While he graduated from Temple University and he intended to attend grad school, he quit grad school after a few days: this is what he said about that in 1990 " "I was a cocky, overweight twenty-two-year-old. Then I had a gangrenous appendix taken out, almost died, and I got over being cocky or overweight." Saget talked about his burst appendix on Anytime with Bob Kushell and said that it happened on the Fourth of July, at the UCLA Medical Center, and that they at first just iced the area for seven hours before taking it out and finding that it had become gangrenous." What happened next became well-known: He was a stand-up comedian and a beloved actor, as well as a voice-over actor. Along the way, he married Sherri Kramer (in 1982) and they had daughters Aubrey, Lara, and Jennifer. He and Sherri divorced in 1997. In 2018, he married Kelly Rizzo (host of Eat Travel Rock TV) and they were married until his passing. On January 9 2020, while in the middle of a stand-up tour when he was found dead in his room at the Ritz-Carlton near Orlando FL. You can scroll down to read more about the circumstances and tributes by other show business luminaries.

Karen Ann King was born to Greg M. and Linda L. King and lived in Saginaw Michigan her entire 18 years of life. In an article that appeared in the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday January 7th, 1997 she was described by friends, neighbors and teachers as a "sweetheart", who "was a quiet girl, but an excellent student and a fine citizen". A friend of hers describes Karen as a "very ambitious to be active in campus activities". She was a popular student in high school and a member of the pompon squad. Karen was tragically murdered by 15 year old Shytour T. Williams on Jan. 3, 1997. Karen was a Michigan State University freshman at home on Christmas break when she went to the Genesee Meat Market at West Genesee and North Bond in Saginaw to grab food for dinner. Shytour and his 25 year old cousin August M. Williams forced Karen into her white Chevrolet Blazer and blind folded & stabbed then raped her. The two cousins then decided to 'show off' Karen to their friends at the New Amadore Apartments in Saginaw. Karen's body was found the following day on Euclid near a car salvage yard. Further details are included in newspaper article and trial transcripts below on this page.