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i nursaay, July 12. 1990 STATS ILL Pag 9 The Lincoln Star Misses investigator's death leads to suspicions about foul olav Linen-Look Blazer llclin Crpriit I j.uw Dick Caradorl said be was unsi Credit Dick Caradori said be was unsure Franklin whether his brother was flying by instru BLiCK t. A RED Zr" I ment Wednesday morning, but be had heard an unconfirmed report that part of the airplane's wing had fallen off prior to the accident Schmit said Gary Caradori's associates learned that two distress signals were sent Schmit stopped short of saying be believed Gary Caradori's plane was Sabo taged, but be said a small plane "is the perfect thing to use to get at someone" They tend to burn when they crash, and things get burned, destroyed, scattered," Schmit said. "You dont need a bomb. A fuel line could be tampered with.

Any number of possibilities are there." Schmit confirmed that Gary Caradori recently had been frying to obtain pic. tures that some "alleged "victims said were taken of them during the period when they were being abused. He also confirmed that the investigator had been told that some of those allegedly in-, volved in child sexual abuse "had exposed some of the victims to Satanic cultism. He was working on places and times. "Gary believed that something was going to come out of this investigation," Schmit said.

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By Paul Hammel of Th Lincoln Star A brother of 'private investigator Gary Caradort and state Sea Loran Schmit say they are suspicious that the private plane accident that killed Caradort Wednesday morning in Illinois might have been murder. "He was an excellent pilot It just seems kind of unlikely that this would happen," said Dick Caradort, 46, via telephone from the family home in Ralstoa Schmit told The Associated Press there were people who wanted to see Gary Caradort dead because of his investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of children in connection with the failure of Omaha's Franklin Credit Union. They got their wish. The question to be answered is whether it was a coincidence," said Schmit, who chairs the Legislature's special Franklin committee, which hired Caradort. NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board officials are investigating the cause of the crash that claimed the lives of Gary Caradort and his 8-year-old son, Andrew.

The two were flying back to Lincoln after attending the baseball All-Star Game in Chicago Tuesday night The Lee County, HL, sheriffs office said a plane was reported to have crashed in a cornfield at about 2:30 am Around dawn, the wreckage was spotted from a helicopter about 5 miles south of Ashton, the AP reported. Autopsies were scheduled Thursday. Bill Bruce, an air safety investigator for the NTSB, said that the plane apparently broke up in flight "It was a scattered wreckage pattern," Bruce told Sterling, EL, radio station WSDR. The exact mechanism of the breakup is unknown." Dick Caradort, an Omaha airline worker, said his brother had been flying his own airplanes for several years in connection with his private investigative work. He said his brother had obtained his instrument rating about six months ago.

Dick Caradort said his brother and his Gary Caradori piloted plane. family had received many death threats over the Franklin investigation, though Gary Caradorl talked little of the investigation. "I know that it weighed a lot on his mind," said Dick Caradort. "He always hoped that they just didnt cover it up. He said there was a lot to it and a lot of big names involved, and hoped then-money wouldn't sweep it under the rug.

"It just seems kind of fishy that this would happen all of a sudden with what a good pilot he was," said Dick Caradort Schmit, himself a pilot with 40 years' experience, told the AP the possibility of foul play was bound to occur to virtually anyone familiar with the case. "He was a very conservative, careful pilot and he was flying with his son," Schmit said in a sometimes emotional interview. "Gary Caradori was not the kind of pilot who would do something foolish in an airplane." An acquaintance of Gary Caradori's at the Lincoln airport, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was known as a "very competent" pilot "We're all kind of shocked about what happened and wonder why," he said. He said he shared in the initial suspicion about foul play in the accident DICK CARADORI said the family would await the NTSB investigation until deciding whetherfurther investigation was necessary. ever, z.y.

-c-t GARY CARADORI was hired as the Franklin committee's investigator in August 1989, after the resignation of the former investigator, Jerry Lowe. As committee investigator, Gary Caradori conducted videotaped interviews with three young people who alleged that they were victims of child sexual abuse when they were minors. Dick Caradori said his brother always had dreamed of being a police officer. One of five brothers, Gary Caradort later worked as a state patrolman and an investigator for the State Patrol before opening a private investigation agency in Lincoln in 1977. One of his specialties was finding missing people.

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