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Karyn Kupcinet: Prine
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Kupcinet apparently went straight home after dining with her friends. She was visited by freelance writer Edward Stephen Rubin shortly afterward. The two were then joined by actor Robert Hathaway around 9:30 p.m. They told detectives they watched TV, including The Danny Kaye Show, with Karyn. They all drank coffee until she fell asleep sitting next to them on the couch. She awoke and went to her room. The men either turned the TV set off or simply lowered the volume (three days later it was still playing with a low volume), and they made sure the door was locked behind them before departing at about 11:15 p.m. Hathaway said he and Rubin returned to his place and were later joined by Karyn's boyfriend, actor Andrew Prine, who had just left a movie theater.
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By 1962 Kupcinet was living in Hollywood, had a relationship with actor Andrew Prine, and was getting positive reviews for her acting. However, the relationship was problematic, Kupcinet was abusing diet pills along with other prescription drugs, and she had been arrested for shoplifting.
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Reporters and sheriffs' officials initially believed that the bizarre, vaguely threatening notes that Andrew Prine had found taped to his door were the work of a male murderer who was jealous of his relationship with Kupcinet. Both Los Angeles newspapers reported, shortly before they dropped the story, that Karyn was responsible for the messages.
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[O]ther accounts portray Karyn as a woman disturbed about her deteriorating relationship with Andy Prine. Prine himself talked to her on the phone twice on Wednesday evening.(13) The conversations had nothing to do with Kennedy, but rather with a baby that Karyn claimed had been left on her doorstep. There was apparently no such baby, and she simply concocted the story.(14)
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