Please post a source for your Orson Bean comment.
Actually the beauty is, whether or not Orson Bean made a comment about AB’s heart condition doesn’t matter, real or not a comment like that properly disseminated (and quickly before anyone gets any ideas) just makes the story more solid. Again, from my previous post - the way to make an ‘action’ seem to be an accident is to exploit pre-existing conditions in the target.
The setups:
You would have an alcoholic fall down stairs or out a window.
If the mark has been known to be depressed (even slightly) they would ‘commit suicide.’
For someone who is a private pilot you’d have a “malfunctioning” plane (think induced metal fatigue in the control cables).
The point is, accident or not - the public can now never be sure. This keeps the sheep properly confused - and that is the point of good wetwork! A job well done.