Reveal Spinning records nearly cost CASEY KASEM his life! According to blockbuster documents in his FBI file – obtained exclusively by The National ENQUIRER – the beloved radio DJ, who passed away at age 82 last June, received multiple death threats.
A St. Louis woman bombarded Casey with a series of bizarre letters in 1980 saying she “intended to destroy him,” and vowing “serious physical consequences” to his wife and children.
When confronted by FBI agents, the woman admitted she was in love with the “American Top 40” host, and angry because he’d married a younger woman, his second wife, Jean.
Chillingly, she also confessed she’d been influenced by the shooting of Beatle John Lennon, and had considered buying a gun. She agreed to seek psychiatric help, and was not prosecuted.
In the most terrifying case, a Mississippi listener penned a rambling six-page letter threatening to kill Casey for not playing his song request. “Read carefully Idiots and Fools. I do like you and I hope you die in your sleep very soon,” adding that he knew where Casey lived and threatening to do him bodily harm.
At one point the writer threatened to “re-enact the massacre” at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, Calif. – a tragedy where a gunman killed 21 people before being fatally shot.
The FBI found the writer had been arrested for carrying a knife. He lived with his parents, and the case was dropped when they promised to monitor him. Despite that, agents noted in the file: “Consider subject armed and dangerous.”
