— Desoto County, Miss.: Pioneering rock ‘n’ roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis died at his home here Oct. 28. He was 87. MSTies may recall that he was mentioned in host segments in episodes 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS and 311- IT CONQUERED THE WORLD.

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Thousand Oaks, CALIF. — Character actor Ron Masak died Oct. 20 at a hospital here. He was 86.

He is perhaps best known as Cabot Cove Sheriff Mort Metzger, a frequent beneficiary of sleuth Jessica Fletcher’s crime-solving abilities for eight seasons of TV’s “Murder, She Wrote.” But he also had roles on […]