Dan Aykroyd murder hunt called off by Canada police after ‘misunderstanding’
Calgary police were forced to backtrack after briefly considering a manhunt for film star Dan Aykroyd as they conducted a murder investigation that tued out to be a wild goose chase worthy of a Hollywood movie.
Officers were handed footage on 35mm film tape, uncovered in a landfill site, of a man that looked like the Ghostbusters star hunched over a dead body with blood on his hands.
When no one recognised the scene as being from any of his work, and cleaning up the image to ensure it was in fact Aykroyd, the police contacted the 60-year-old’s representatives to discuss the discovery.
Dan Aykroyd starred in flop comedy Loose Cannons in 1990 (Picture: Tri Star / YouTube)
It was they who pegged the pictures as being from little-known 1990 comedy film Loose Cannons, which also starred Gene Hackman.
The murder case was closed shortly afterwards.
When contacted about the rather strange happenings by celebrity website TMZ, Dan Aykroyd is said to have remarked: ’The movie should have been left in the landfill where it belongs.’
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