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Casey Kasem’s daughter Kerri Kasem still wants to bring his body back to Los Angeles.

The internationally famous radio host known as "King of the Top 40 Countdown," died in 2014 at age 82. The star suffered a lengthy battle with Lewy body dementia.

His widow, actress Jean Kasem, had his body moved to Oslo, Norway, for burial. Other relatives and friends claimed at the time that Casey had wished to be buried in the Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles.

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Kerri is the founder of Kasem Cares, a nonprofit organization that advocates against elder abuse and isolation. Its "Visitation Bill," which aims to provide "an open path for family members to ask the court to rule on visitation" of a loved one, has been passed in 12 states. Its site noted that nine other states have adopted a version of the bill.

When asked if there were plans to get Casey back to the U.S., Kerri told Fox News Digital, "Eventually."

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"I can’t say there are plans right now, [but] it will happen," she said. "I just can’t tell you."

Kerri, also a radio host, is adamant that the beloved patriarch belongs in the city he called home. And the feeling she has about his current resting place is "twofold."

"[Norway] is probably one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen," Kerri explained. "It’s a country that is stunning, but it’s not where my dad wanted to be… His final wish was to be buried in California, where he had been living for 58 years."

"I guess there’s this beauty with a bit of anger," the 52-year-old added.

A spokesperson for Jean, 70, and her attorney, didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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For the first time since the patriarch’s passing, Kerri told Fox News Digital she visited his grave in Oslo.

"When I was walking towards his grave, I started to get a little shaky and a little emotional," she recalled. "When I got there, I just had a sense of peace come over me. He’s not there — he’s with me. And then I felt a little upset about the fact that he’s buried in a place he didn’t want to be. Other people would like to pay their respects… family members and fans."

"I was upset," Kerri shared. "But it was also accompanied by a feeling of, ‘We’ll get him back. We’ll get him buried where he wanted to be at Forest Lawn in California.’"

In 2019, family members of Casey settled dueling lawsuits alleging that he was badly mistreated before his death.

The two sides filed a joint request in the Los Angeles Superior Court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit by three of Casey's children and his brother against Casey's widow, which claimed her neglect and physical abuse led to his death, as well as a countersuit making similar claims against the plaintiffs that were filed by his widow and another daughter.

The first lawsuit was a lingering chapter in a series of heated and often public fights between Casey's children and his second wife. It accused Jean, who was married to Casey for 34 years, of elder abuse and of inflicting emotional distress on his children by restricting their access to him before his death.

Jean, who appeared in "Cheers" and "Ghostbusters," denied all the allegations. She countersued and alleged that Casey's children were motivated by greed after he cut them off financially in 2012. Jean also alleged that they brought emotional distress not only to her but to the ailing patriarch. All the claims were denied by the family.

The two sides fought bitterly over access to Casey and control of his medical care before he died. Police and prosecutors in California and Washington, where he passed away, investigated Casey's treatment and death. They found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

In 2019, Jean told Fox News Digital in a lengthy statement that Kerri’s quest to honor her father was far from noble.

"Casey and I were lovingly married for 34 years," she wrote in a statement. "We have a daughter named Liberty. Casey’s adult children Kerri, Julie and Mike, from a prior marriage… grew up with their mother and have a deep-seated hatred towards me, who only financially supported them throughout their lives. When Kerri, Julie and Mike became involved with Scientology, Casey and I financially cut them off. They then attempted to frame me with a vicious character assassination campaign, seeking media attention to disseminate a false narrative and extort money from me."

"Kerri and Julie also weaponized the Los Angeles Adult Protective Services and Police against me," Jean alleged. "Both L.A. APS and LAPD found their allegations to be completely false. When the Kasem sisters filed their first Guardianship attempt of Casey in Los Angeles on October 7, 2013, their first request was to cease all life-sustaining measures for Casey, based on a suspect Durable Power of Attorney procured with undue influence in a UPS store in 2007, which they deceptively concealed for six years."

"The court found that I had the proper Advance Care Directive for my husband and that Casey was receiving ‘excellent care’ in the privacy of our family home," she continued. "The first Guardianship attempt of Casey was ‘denied with prejudice’ and closed on January 14, 2014. The Kasem sisters filed a second Guardianship of Casey in Los Angeles on May 7, 2014. With the same systematic pattern of abuse, the Kasem sisters weaponized the Washington State Adult Protective Services and Sheriff’s Office against me, who also found the allegations to be completely false.

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"The Kasem sisters then chased Casey, me and Liberty to Washington State, where they tricked a local judge into taking Casey to a hospital for a supposed 'independent medical evaluation.' On June 1, 2014, once the Kasem sisters had Casey entrapped and chemically restrained, they had Liberty and me banned from the hospital, while they had already begun the process to terminate Casey’s life. I fought valiantly to save my husband from the homicidal Guardianship scheme. Casey was pronounced dead in Washington State on June 15, 2014.

"Appearing anything but grief-stricken, the Kasem sisters’ monetary motive became clear when they immediately filed a claim for a $2,100,000 life insurance policy, insuring Casey’s life. Every single allegation made by the co-conspirators against me was proven to be completely false. To this day, Liberty and I continue to grieve the loss of Casey. Our faith in God helps us through it, believing that the co-conspirators will soon be brought to justice."

At the time when Jean released her statement, Kerri immediately denied the allegations and said "every single year Jean Kasem's story changes."

Previous reports claimed that Jean cited her Norwegian heritage as the reason for choosing to bury her late husband in Oslo. Kerri claimed that Jean isn’t Norwegian.

Following a seemingly never-ending legal battle and an ongoing bitter family feud, Kerri said it was important for her to be with her father again.

"I wanted to be there," she said. "It’s the 10th anniversary, and I just wanted to go."

Kerri claimed that her father was resting in an unmarked grave before a Norwegian resident from Texas placed a small plaque in honor of the star. Kerri claimed that another stranger, who is now a friend, helped her locate Casey's final resting place.

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"She lost her father the same month I lost mine," Kerri explained. "So she went looking for his grave… and she found it. She’s the one who sent me pictures of his grave. She puts little American flags on it… she’s made it beautiful."

"It’s very sweet, but… it’s not where my dad belongs," said Kerri. "… He will be buried back in this country. It just may take a little time."

Today, Kerri is determined to turn pain into purpose. She described how her father passed away on June 15 — World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. It was also Father’s Day that year.

"I thought it was such a wonderful sign from my father, for all of us," said Kerri. "It was a sign for me to keep going, to keep fighting."

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"That’s why I fight so hard to get bills passed state by state," she shared. "It allows families and loved ones to see mom and dad. It’s sickening what is done to families… And having loved ones around you, especially when you have dementia, is the most important thing… It’s not about taking them out of their home, putting them in a subpar facility… where they do not see their kids or loved ones… putting them on medication and then isolating them until they die. The fact that this is happening in the United States of America is disgusting. And this happens every day."

Kerri can still vividly recall the moment she realized her father’s health had started to deteriorate.

"He just kept forgetting things — a lot," Kerri recalled. "I remember talking to my brother and sister saying, ‘I think something is going on with dad.' Then he got diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. He was forgetting a lot and hallucinating."

"He never forgot us though," she insisted. "He knew exactly who we were all the time… He knew who we were up until the day he died."

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Kerri said she still receives letters from people in similar family disputes over their parents.

"I can’t ignore them," she said. "They need somebody to listen to them, to understand what is going on. And everyone who works for [my] organization has gone through this."

And for Kerri, it’s all about keeping her father’s legacy alive.

"I know my father is with me," she said. "There was a time after he died… the lights in my house would suddenly flicker. Things would happen. And I just knew it was him. He was with me."

"I don’t believe he’s gone," Kerri reflected. "That gives me comfort. My beliefs give me comfort."

Original article source: Casey Kasem's daughter battles family over star's final resting place amid alleged elder abuse scandal

Do Trump Fans Believe the Harris Hype? Not a Chance.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Inside the sometimes upside-down world in which former President Donald Trump and his most passionate supporters commune, the current trajectory of the presidential race is totally fine. This has not been the worst three weeks of Trump’s campaign. Nothing to worry about.

“I’m not nervous at all,” said Tamara Whitney, 59, a retired postal service worker from Helena, Montana. She was one of thousands of Montanans who had come out to Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman on Friday night to see Trump stump. Johnny Cash played as little kids with big silver belt buckles and cowboy hats and boots wandered by a man wearing a cow-patterned suit jacket. “Trump has got it,” Whitney said breezily.

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In interview after interview, Trump’s supporters expressed a kind of <snip>y equanimity about the state of things. It was a decidedly optimistic rendering of the political reality, nurtured by the man for whom they plan to vote, that appeared to be contributing to a creeping sense they have that, if this race does not go their way in November, it will have been another stolen election.

It didn’t much matter to them that on that same day, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, had also been out West, in Glendale, Arizona, for their biggest rally yet (some 15,000 people showed up, according to their campaign). Or that Trump’s lead in the polls, and his fundraising edge, had vanished. Or that the press and the internet and the entertainment industry were all abuzz with talk of Harris’ coconut memes and “joy” and “brat” lately.

“I’m sorry, I don’t believe what I see on TV and stuff, so I’m just not worried about it,” said Barb Delaney, 68, a flight attendant from Bozeman.

“It’s kind of like when you date somebody for the first time,” said Chris Black, a 35-year-old from Red Lodge, Montana, who works in real estate and was there with his wife. “The first couple weeks are always really good, but we’ll see in 90 days how it turns out, right?”

“It’s a honeymoon phase,” said Hal Garrigues, 70, a retired pilot who splits his time between Florida and Bozeman. “And Trump’s turnout is going to be massive, because his base is extremely energized.”

His base is also suspicious. This slice of the electorate, already so skeptical of institutions and what they see as corrupt media, have found the extraordinary events of the past few weeks — President Joe Biden’s exit from the campaign and the Democrats’ swift decision to unite instead behind Harris — disorienting and somewhat difficult to process.

The way they see it, the same media that told them Biden wasn’t a zombie suddenly turned on him for being a zombie and are now pushing his vice president, who was treated as a lightweight by that same media until about 14 seconds ago.

And it is Trump — the man they trust more than anyone to always keep it real — who is telling them not to believe Harris’ hype.

“Now the media is saying: ‘She’s wonderful! She’s wonderful!’” he whinged at the rally. He motioned in the direction of the broadcast cameras in the back of the room. “The same people back there,” he said. The crowd turned to hiss.

He reminded them again and again that Harris had yet to give a formal interview or hold a news conference since she declared her candidacy. “She has refused to do a single interview,” he said. “You know why? Because she’s dumb.”

When he was up against Biden, Trump played videos at his rallies showing the president’s shuffling gait and verbal and physical stumbles. On Friday, Trump stopped in the middle of his speech to direct the crowd’s attention to a new video. It was a highlight reel of Harris’ mush-mouthed media moments from interviews over the years, like her attempt to explain cloud computing technology and her disastrous exchange with Lester Holt, an NBC journalist, about the southern border. There was no menacing music set to this video but a kind of daffy, tingly tune.

The message Trump was drilling into his supporters was that the media had to cover for the last Democrat because he was infirm. They’ll cover for this Democrat, he implied, because she’s an imbecile.

And the crowd ate it up.

“She’s very well spoken for by the media, and I think that’s what’s really pushing this artificial rise in her popularity,” said Christopher Groessler, 44, a U.S. Air Force veteran who had driven four hours from Polson, Montana, to attend his first Trump rally.

Trump has set expectations for Harris so low, his supporters say they can’t imagine — or accept — any scenario in which she wins.

“I don’t believe that she can win,” Groessler said. “I am one of those ones that believes it will be a rigged election.”

“Everything is so fake, on all sides, all the hoopla,” said Delaney, the flight attendant. “I believe if we have a fair and honest election, the American people will speak.”

Asked if she thought Harris could win, Whitney, the retired postal service worker from Helena, said, “No, absolutely not.” And what if Harris does win? “I’ll be very sad.”

But would she believe it?

“Would I believe it if she wins?” Whitney asked, narrowing her eyes. She thought for a moment. Then she laughed and said, “I’ll have a lot of questions.”