Scandals From The Johnny Carson Show

A Mysterious Connection

TV personality and fellow funnyman Art Linkletter also had a strange connection to the death of the Tonight Show star Carol Wayne. In 1969, Art’s daughter Diane Linkletter allegedly jumped or fell off of a six-floor apartment building. Art publicly claimed that Diane’s death was because she was having a flashback due to her use of LSD. He subsequently ended his TV career in order to speak out against the use of drugs.

Before she died, Art had even recorded an album discussing the use of drugs in modern society and Diane recorded a rebuttal album which actually went on to win a Grammy. In a very strange turn of events, Diane Linkletter happened to be with Edward Durston the night she died, just like Johnny Carson’s colleague Carol Wayne. Edward was never charged with any crime but it certainly suspicious he was with the two women the night of their deaths.