Overview
- Police and EMS answered a call to Kelker‑Kelly’s St. Peters, Missouri, home after a report of an unresponsive man around 8:16 p.m. on October 3 and found him not breathing while CPR was underway.
- The Missouri medical examiner has confirmed his death and released his body to a local funeral home, but officials have not disclosed an official cause of death.
- Dispatch audio published by outlets records a caller reporting a cardiac arrest and officials saying Kelker‑Kelly was discovered in bed and could not be moved, and police described the scene as non‑suspicious.
- Kelker‑Kelly was best known for playing Bo Brady on Days of Our Lives and had long runs on Another World and General Hospital; he later worked as a professional pilot and acting teacher.
- His death follows renewed public attention this year after Lisa Rinna’s memoir accused him of off‑screen verbal abuse, an allegation to which Kelker‑Kelly did not publicly respond.