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Richard Leland Bare (August 12, 1913 – March 28, 2015) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter of Hollywood movies, television shows and short films.
Richard L. Bare was born on 12 August 1913 in Turlock, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Islanders (1960), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew (1969).
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Apr 13, 2015 · Richard L. Bare, a director whose career began during World War II and who became a Hollywood mainstay in the early days of television, died on March 28 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He...
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Real Name: Richard Lynn Bare
Aliases: Lynn Bare
Wanted For: Murder, Escape
Details: Most teenagers would do anything to avoid being with their parents. But to seventeen-year-old April Hart of Ashe County, North Carolina, nothing would be more precious than spending a few moments with her mother, savagely murdered when April was six. She wishes she could go back to when she was six, so that she could be with her mother and be happy with her. April’s mother, Sherry Elaine Lyall Hart, was last seen alive on the night of January 15, 1984. The twenty-four-year-old divorcee had recently moved herself and April back in with her parents. That night, she was supposed to meet a date outside a local restaurant in West Jefferson. Her date never showed up. Yet she did not come home that night, or the next. Her parents reported her missing; a few days later, her father found her car in the restaurant parking lot.
Police located several friends who had seen Sherry that evening. However, they found no evidence of foul play, no explanation for her sudden disappearance. For months afterwards, April heard rumors that Sherry had run off to Florida with a lover. April thought that Sherry hated her, and did not want to come back because she did not feel that she was responsible for her. She thought that Sherry did not love her anymore.
The truth was worse, far worse. On December 10, 1984, eleven months after Sherry vanished, an unrelated investigation led police down a 2000-foot cliff at the edge of N.C. Highway 16. Locals call it the “Jumpingoff Place.” It was there, at the base of the cliff, that authorities found Sherry’s decomposed body. X-rays confirmed her identity. Investigators immediately reopened the case. They located a witness who had seen Sherry on the night she vanished with two twenty-year-old high school friends, Jeffrey Scott Burgess and Richard Lynn Bare.
Police interrogated Bare and Burgess separately. Bare’s brother had once dated Sherry. Bare claimed that they had dropped her off at her car around 9pm. However, witnesses had placed her with him and Burgess after 9pm. Overall, Bare volunteered little information, so detectives pushed forward with other leads. They interviewed many people with information about the case. As a result of those interviews, detectives developed a scenario as to what occurred on the evening of Sherry’s disappearance and death. With this information, they confronted Burgess during questioning on March 29, 1985.
Burgess told police that he and Bare picked up Sherry from her car and drove her around in Bare’s white Ford Mustang. They told her that they were going to a place to party, possibly a nightclub or a bar. At some point during the drive, she asked to make a rest stop. Authorities allege that Sherry and the two men pulled off the highway about one quarter of a mile from the Jumpingoff Place. She went into the woods to go to the bathroom.
As Sherry walked back to the car, Bare caught up with her. He grabbed onto her and tried to kiss her. She repeatedly refused his sexual advances; however, he continued to hold onto her. Eventually, she broke free of him and ran back to the car. She asked Burgess for help. That night, Bare was apparently carrying a handgun. As she pleaded for help, Bare, enraged, came from behind and struck her in the head with the gun. He then forced her back into the car.
Sep 7, 2020 · Richard Bare and Jeffrey Burgess were charged with the murder of Sherry Hart. Conviction could have led straight to the gas chamber. But four months after his arrest, Bare escaped from the county jail.
Apr 11, 2015 · Richard L. Bare, who wrote and directed hundreds of episodes of classic TV shows including “Green Acres” and “Twilight Zone,” died March 28 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 101.
Richard L. Bare was born on 12 August 1913 in Turlock, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Islanders (1960), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew (1969).
