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Page A4 Fremont Tribune Thursday, July 12, 1990 ranklin investigator dies in plane, crash Sen. Schmit wont rule out sabatoge closing of the credit union by. federal regulators. Caradori was hired as the Franklin committees investigator in August 1989 following the resignation of the former investigator, Jerry Lowe. Lowe and three other people connected with the committee resigned in a dispute over whether the committee should focus on allegations of financial misconduct or on the child sex-abuse charges.

records had been sent. Lutz said sheriffs investigators and rescuers were still on the scene. Schmit said Caradori and his son were on their way back to Lincoln after attending the baseball All-Star Game in Chicago. Schmit said Caradori had flown to Chicago on Monday. The Franklin committee was established in January 1989 ti look into allegations that aras following the November 19m Transportation Safety Board official said that the plane pta fied as Caradori and his son, Andrew, were killed in a plane crash early Wednesday in Lee County in Illinois, about five miles south of Ashton, 111., said Lee County Coroner Richard Schilling.

Schilling said autopsies will be performed Thursday. Bill Bruce, an air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said that die plane apparently broke up in flight. It was a scattered wreckage pattern, Bruce said. It certainly demonstrates that it did break up in flight. The exact mechanism of die breakup is unknown, Bmce said in comments taped by Sterling, 111.

radio station WSDR. Capt. Gene Lutz of the Lee County sheriffs office said officials received a report that a plane crashed in a cornfield at about 2:30 a.m. A helicopter later sighted the wreckage sometime around dawn, he said. Gary Caradori brother, Dick, said die family was asked to send dental records for Caradori and his son to Illinois authorities investigating the crash.

Dick Caradori, of Ralston, said the Associated Press Gary Caradori, the investigator looking into allegations of child abuse that arose in the wake of the failure of an Omaha credit union, died in the crash of a private plane in Illinois, Sen. Loran Schmit of Bellwood said Wednesday. I have been informed that Mr. Caradori and his 8-year-old son died in a plane crash in Illinois sometime this morning, said Schmit, chairman of the Legislatures special committee investigating the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union. Caradori was the committees investigator.

I understand that Mr. Caradori was the pilot of the aircraft and that he and his son were alone in the plane, Schmit said in Lincoln. That really is all I know at this time, Schmit said. Gary Caradori was a good man who did a lot of good in his life. He helped a lot of people.

He was a tireless worker and he has been invaluable to this committees work. We are all awaiting further word on how and why this tragedy occurred, Schmit said. Two people tentatively identi LINCOLN (AP) There is no doubt in the mind of Sen. Lofan Schmit of Bellwood that there are people who wanted to see private in-vesu gator Gary Caradori dead. They got their wish the question to, be answered is whether it 'was a coincidence, Schmit said Wednesday after learning that Car-adort and his 8-year-old son, Andrew, were killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Illinois.

Caradori was investigating allegations of child sexual abuse that arose after the failure of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha. Schmit chairs the Legislatures special Franklin committee, which hired Caradori. Bill Bruce, an air safety investigator for the National apparently broke up in flight before it crashed to the ground near Ashton, 111. Schmit, himself a pilot of 40 years experience, said 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 that came to my mind when I was told of this, Schmit said in a sometimes emotional interview.

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