Tarzan star Ron Ely’s tragic final years after son stabbed wife Valerie to death

Actor Ron Ely, who is champion known for being the prima of the 1960s Tarzan TV series, has died astatine the property of 86.

His last years were shrouded successful tragedy, and his decease comes 5 years aft his 2nd wife, Valerie Lundeen Ely, was killed successful tragic circumstances astatine the couple’s location successful California.

The erstwhile formation attendant was fatally stabbed by their son, Cameron Ely, successful the family’s location successful Santa Barbara, astatine the property of 62.

Cameron was fatally changeable astatine the country by authorities with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.

Ron, who retired from acting successful 2001 (apart from a little quality successful TV movie Expecting Amish successful 2014), and his woman Valerie were joined for 35 years earlier her death.

The mates had 3 children together, Kirsten, Kaitland, and Cameron.

Who was Ron Ely’s woman Valerie Lundeen?

Ron Ely’s woman was Valerie Lundeen, a devoted parent who erstwhile worked arsenic a formation attendant and won Miss Airline International, a quality pageant for formation attendants, successful 1980.

A twelvemonth later, Valerie was crowned Miss Florida, USA successful a quality pageant successful 1981, and she would aboriginal vie for the rubric of Miss USA.

Her aboriginal husband, Ron, besides had associations with the satellite of pageants, having hosted the Miss America contention for 2 years successful a enactment successful 1980 and 1981.

Ron and Valerie got joined successful 1984 and had 3 children. The mates became grandparents for the archetypal clip successful 2018 erstwhile their girl Kaitland gave commencement to her archetypal child, a small boy.

Valerie was 62 years aged erstwhile she was killed.

What happened with Ron and Valerie’s son, Cameron Ely?

Valerie was killed connected October 15, 2019, erstwhile she was stabbed to decease by her son, Cameron Ely, astatine the household location successful California.

Officers who were called to the country successful Santa Barbara reported that they recovered Valerie dormant aft having suffered ‘multiple stab wounds’.

They recovered Cameron, who was 30 astatine the time, extracurricular the home. He was deemed a menace aft deputies were incapable to ‘gain verbal power of the suspect’ and officers fired shots astatine him, fatally wounding Cameron and sidesplitting him astatine the scene.

A connection connected the tragic incidental from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff said: ‘The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 telephone astatine the location of histrion Ron Ely.

‘Upon arrival, deputies contacted Ron Ely and discovered his wife, Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62, deceased with aggregate stab wounds wrong the home. While connected scene, deputies identified the fishy arsenic the Ely’s son, 30-year-old Cameron Ely.

‘Deputies searched the residence and surrounding country for Cameron Ely. During the search, the fishy was located extracurricular the home. He posed a menace and successful effect 4 deputies fired their work weapons astatine the suspect, fatally wounding him. No deputies were injured during the confrontation with the suspect.’

‘The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is conducting criminal, coroner’s, and administrative investigations of this incident. Autopsies of some the unfortunate and the fishy are pending. The names of the progressive deputies volition beryllium released astatine a aboriginal date.’

In October 2020, Ron Ely filed a national wrongful decease suit against the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.

In tribunal documents obtained by People, the suit claimed that Cameron was surrendering earlier constabulary changeable him much than 20 times.

Lawyers for Ron said successful the documents: ‘The reprehensible behaviour of the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department Deputies was egregious, wholly unreasonable, and, accordingly, unconstitutional.’

In October 2022 a national assemblage successful California’s Central District rejected the lawsuit, according to section quality outlet KEYT.

Sheriff Bill Brown said successful a connection astatine the time, ‘Although we admit that this was a tragic situation, and person large sympathy for the Ely family, the usage of deadly unit against Cameron Ely was justified and lawful nether the circumstances.’

This nonfiction was primitively published connected October 17, 2019.

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