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Cassie Kasem is Missing

Yuban3 — Tue, 13 May 2014 14:59:01 GMT

I just heard that he is missing. The whole situation is just so sad. From New York Daily News.

Radio icon Casey Kasem has gone missing, prompting a judge to order an immediate investigation into his whereabouts.

The order came Monday after a lawyer for Kasem’s wife said he’d been “removed” from the country without warning. Now his kids are counting down the days until his safe return.

“We're going to find him, take care of him and love him," daughter Kerri Kasem vowed in an exclusive interview with the Daily News. "He's going to be with family, not stuck in some unfamiliar place where he's dying alone."

Kerri Kasem is one of three adult kids from a previous marriage who have been battling stepmom Jean Kasem in court over access to their legendary dad.

Casey, 82, suffers from advanced Parkinson's disease, can no longer speak and is fed through a tube, sources told The News.

The "Top 40" legend had been living in a private care facility recently, but it's believed he was released at Jean Kasem’s request last week, Kerri Kasem said.

She suspects her dad might be in Canada because a family source overheard plans to move him to an Indian reservation in Washington, she told The News.

Re: Cassie Kasem is Missing

Topaz Gem — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:05:18 GMT

Bizarre. Jean Kasem refused to let Casey's kids have access to him when he was in the private care facility . That's cruel, IMO. What is she afraid of? He is their father, for Heaven's sake.

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JustJules — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:05:54 GMT

It's all very sad since his children clearly love him and are worried about him. Jean has kept them away from him far too long. There is just something odd about the whole thing, and it seems she is up to no good. She probably made Casey change his will so she gets everything, and is keeping him somewhere until he dies. I feel awful for the children. I was watching the story and they mentioned one of his daughter's will have control of medical decisions for her dad, IF they can ever get him back to them.

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pistolino — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:05:57 GMT

This "wife" is out of her mind and I think it's awful that his own children can't see their father, but it happens more than many people know.

It's usually over money and/or control, and not about the health and welfare of the person in question. If anyone reading has a 2nd or 3rd.....whatever number spouse, please make some provisions in your legal paperwork for your children to have access to you in case you become incapacitated.

Much of the time the person who actually has custody of the person holds all the legal cards and children have the same rights as grandparents in court...which is little to none.

Re: Cassie Kasem is Missing

Yuban3 — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:09:58 GMT

Cassie's heart is probably breaking. Due to his Parkinson's, he can't speak, so he can't tell his so-called "wife" what his wishes are.

For all we know, what is being done to him, is being done against his will.

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songbird — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:13:10 GMT

Yep. That current wife is the one. She wants his estate. Of course she's keeping those kids away. He's probably being held somewhere. He can't last too much longer. He's in bad shape.

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pistolino — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:14:49 GMT

What's the reason for moving him to a reservation? Is she trying to physically put him in a place where he's under tribal law? Because Native Americans wouldn't care too much for how she's keeping Casey from his own children.

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MyBllueHaven — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:17:00 GMT

That's what happens when you marry a bimbo.

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Yuban3 — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:18:34 GMT

On 5/13/2014 MyBllueHaven said:
That's what happens when you marry a bimbo.

So he deserves what is happening to him?

His children deserve being kept away from their own father?

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jackthebear — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:23:33 GMT

that is soo wierd. is he part N American? I thought he was Lebanese.. Money and wills makes people do nutty stuff

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MyBllueHaven — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:23:50 GMT

On 5/13/2014 Yuban3 said:
On 5/13/2014 MyBllueHaven said:
That's what happens when you marry a bimbo.

So he deserves what is happening to him?

His children deserve being kept away from their own father?

nobody said he deserves it but..... Those hollywood guys that dump their wives and trade them in for gold digging bimbos always wind up with these problems....look at Candy Spelling..she convinced the old man to leave the kids nothing. When Kasem was younger and virile he was so proud of his new wife...as if she would have married him if he were poor. ho hum

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------ — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:37:37 GMT

On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
that is soo wierd. is he part N American? I thought was Lebanese.. Money and wills makes people do nutty stuff

Wasn't he born in Detroit?

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jackthebear — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:41:34 GMT

On 5/13/2014 ------ said:
On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
that is soo wierd. is he part N American? I thought he was Lebanese.. Money and wills makes people do nutty stuff

Wasn't he born in Detroit?

immigrant, middle eastern ancestry?

off to Wiki~~~

Re: Cassie Kasem is Missing

jackthebear — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:43:41 GMT

On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
On 5/13/2014 ------ said:
On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
that is soo wierd. is he part N American? I thought he was Lebanese.. Money and wills makes people do nutty stuff

Wasn't he born in Detroit?

immigrant, middle eastern ancestry?

off to Wiki~~~

Kasem was born Kamal Amin Kasem^[4] in Detroit, Michigan,^[4] on April 27, 1932 to Lebanese Druze parents who emigrated from the British Mandate of Palestine to Lebanon. After arriving in the United States, they settled in Michigan, where they worked as grocers.^[5] Kasem is a graduate of Northwestern High School in Detroit and Wayne State University.^[4]

copied from Wiki, so why the Indian Reservation? perhaps his wife

who knows, back to cleaning my kitchen

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Preds — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:46:58 GMT

On 5/13/2014 MyBllueHaven said:
That's what happens when you marry a bimbo.

She holds 12 patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, all pertaining to crib and canopy design, developed for her crib business, Little Miss Liberty Round Crib Company.^[4]

^{Well, this surprised me!}

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------ — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:48:21 GMT

On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
On 5/13/2014 ------ said:
On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
that is soo wierd. is he part N American? I thought he was Lebanese.. Money and wills makes people do nutty stuff

Wasn't he born in Detroit?

immigrant, middle eastern ancestry?

off to Wiki~~~

Kasem was born Kamal Amin Kasem^[4] in Detroit, Michigan,^[4] on April 27, 1932 to Lebanese Druze parents who emigrated from the British Mandate of Palestine to Lebanon. After arriving in the United States, they settled in Michigan, where they worked as grocers.^[5] Kasem is a graduate of Northwestern High School in Detroit and Wayne State University.^[4]

copied from Wiki, so why the Indian Reservation? perhaps his wife

who knows, back to cleaning my kitchen

I was also thinking his wife is Native American but I'm not sure what her background is.

ETA Thanks for the info bbr.

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raven-blackbird — Tue, 13 May 2014 15:51:10 GMT

On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
On 5/13/2014 ------ said:
On 5/13/2014 jackthebear said:
that is soo wierd. is he part N American? I thought he was Lebanese.. Money and wills makes people do nutty stuff

Wasn't he born in Detroit?

immigrant, middle eastern ancestry?

off to Wiki~~~

Kasem was born Kamal Amin Kasem^[4] in Detroit, Michigan,^[4] on April 27, 1932 to Lebanese Druze parents who emigrated from the British Mandate of Palestine to Lebanon. After arriving in the United States, they settled in Michigan, where they worked as grocers.^[5] Kasem is a graduate of Northwestern High School in Detroit and Wayne State University.^[4]

copied from Wiki, so why the Indian Reservation? perhaps his wife

who knows, back to cleaning my kitchen

because Indian land is a sovereign nation within a nation.........government is not supposed to come on Indian land, the laws don't apply unless the Tribal council agrees to it.......it what the treaties called for........but then, we ALL know how well the government follows the treaties they drew up...................................raven

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Preds — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:09:19 GMT

Jean Kasem was one of five children, with siblings Jeanette, Shirley, Joan and Tommy Thompson, of Irene Celia Thompson (1919-2008) and Herbert Owens Thompson Sr. (deceased).^[2] She lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before her civil-servant father moved the family to Guam in 1963 to help stop her recurring pneumonia.^[3] She attended the University of Guam at age 16, but after marrying a U.S. Navy lieutenant when she was 17, she left to work as a waitress and saleswoman on U.S. military bases throughout the Pacific Ocean to which her husband was posted. The marriage lasted six years.^[3] Kasem then moved to California and unsuccessfully attempted to find work in broadcast journalism. Frustrated, she joined an acting workshop and soon found roles on such TV series as Matt Houston, Fantasy Island and Alice.^[3]

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JustJules — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:11:28 GMT

On 5/13/2014 Preds said:
On 5/13/2014 MyBllueHaven said:
That's what happens when you marry a bimbo.

She holds 12 patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, all pertaining to crib and canopy design, developed for her crib business, Little Miss Liberty Round Crib Company.^[4]

^{Well, this surprised me!}

Thanks for the reminder Preds. I thought I had read something once about her being involved in that. She might have played a "bimbo" on television, but she isn't one in RL, she knows exactly what she is doing, and sadly it seems she holds all the cards right now. Again, I feel so terrible for his children, they might never get to see their father before he dies, and that is just so sad and tragic.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 14 May 2014 02:10:34 GMT

I never heard of him until recently. I assume he worked in California?