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CHAPTER
"NEBRASKA IS
DEATH-LACED"
"If even half of what I have heard is true, this is the biggest
thing to ever hit Nebraska," Gary Caradori told his wife, Sandie,
late one night in August 1989. Although he was exhausted, the
new chief investigator for the Nebraska Legislature's Franklin
committee did not sleep that night. There was more cause for
sleeplessness in the weeks that followed.
On September 14, 1989 someone broke into the Caradoris'
home.
By January 1990, Caradori was writing to Nebraska Secretary
of State Alan Beerman, "We-my employees and myself-have
been followed and questionable situations have
arisen during this investigation. Threatening situations have
resulted numerous times. Why Am I too close to something
they do not want to become public"
On April 13, 1990, a repairman from the Executone company
reported to Caradori that his phone was tapped, a finding confirmed
to him by sources inside the phone company.
The investigator continued to work, with a growing sense
of the importance of his task.On May 29, 1990 Caradori wrote
to Franklin committee chairman Loran Schmit. "To be frank,"
he told the senator, "it is my opinion that we are the only ones
who are seriously working to get this case 'out in the open,'
so to speak. I honestly feel that should we terminate this investigation
that no further work will be done on it."
On June 23, 1990, Caradori took a few hours off to attend
a barbecue at the Omaha home of Mary Lyons-Barrett. Most
of those present were members of the Concerned Parents, a