{"id":2937,"date":"2025-12-03T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:22:12","slug":"tarzan-star-ron-elys-tragic-final-years-after-son-stabbed-wife-valerie-to-death-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan star Ron Ely\u2019s tragic final years after son stabbed wife Valerie to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Ron Ely, star of 1960s\u00a0<em>Tarzan<\/em>\u00a0TV series, died at 86. He retired in 2001 (final role: 2014\u2019s\u00a0<em>Expecting Amish<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Tragedy struck in 2019: his wife Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62\u2014former flight attendant, Miss Airline International 1980, Miss Florida USA 1981\u2014was stabbed to death at their Santa Barbara home by son Cameron, 30. Deputies shot and killed Cameron at the scene after deeming him a threat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Married 35 years, the couple had three children: Kirsten, Kaitland (grandson born 2018), and Cameron. Ely sued the sheriff\u2019s office in 2020, claiming wrongful death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Ely, star of 1960s\u00a0Tarzan\u00a0TV series, died at 86. He retired in 2001 (final role: 2014\u2019s\u00a0Expecting Amish). Tragedy struck in 2019: his wife Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62\u2014former flight attendant, Miss Airline International 1980, Miss Florida USA 1981\u2014was stabbed to death at their Santa Barbara home by son Cameron, 30. Deputies shot and killed Cameron at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}