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Colonel Richard Damerow, commander of the Civil Air Patrol, expressing his resentment at the groups' clashing in an interview with a newspaper. Chief Vigil attempted to re-coordinate the teams despite a lack of developed search procedures. He also pleaded parents to confiscate their children's walkie-talkies and appealed to CB operators to keep Channel 14 clear, as that was the band Larry transmitted on the most often.
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that he was stuck inside the cab of an overturned pickup truck next to his father's body with no food or water, and that he was six years old. He said that he had no knowledge of how to properly use the truck's CB radio, which could have explained his "walking" signal. Larry made these claims throughout the day on
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all efforts. I think we would have found if he had been there because all the areas that were indicated were searched extensively." The Larry debacle was cited among other incidents of misuse occurring over citizens band radio in the early 1970s as the reason for the FCC's establishment of regional CB investigation teams in
September 1974.
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In all 150 persons equipped with directional finders and radio monitors scoured the foothills of central New Mexico by the end of
Wednesday. Sargent W. A. Schmidt of the Civil Air Patrol reported that the search teams had still not discredited the possibility of the signal being a hoax. He opined: "I
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over the course of several days in August 1973. The boy, who said his name was Larry, stated that he was stuck inside a truck that had crashed and turned over somewhere in the mountains of New Mexico and that his father, who had been driving, was killed in the accident. The boy's pleas were initially
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W. D. George, head engineer of FCC's Denver office, confirmed that no further signals from Larry had been heard since the search was called off in New Mexico on August 12. He opined: "As far as I know, it was a hoax. We don't have anything to the contrary". Vigil reaffirmed: "We have exhausted
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18,000 plane to conduct his own search for Larry. However, the plane flew out of control, and the student had to make a crash landing. He escaped without injury, but he had to pay $ 500 for his deductible on the plane's insurance. ARCA started a fundraiser to help the student, who spent his tuition
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Maryland, called the offices to report having relatives with sons named Larry traveling west with whom they had lost contact. Both sets of families were found intact shortly after. A radio operator purported that Larry had said that his last name was Cortesei, which excited friends of an
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when she heard a young boy cry out, "Help! Please help me!" on her transceiver. Ross responded by asking for more information about the boy's situation while trying to calm him down. The boy responded that his father was dead; according to Ross, the boy also pleaded, "Come on, David, help me". Ross
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mission. That same
Wednesday, a CB enthusiast by the name of Linda King—alias "Blue Eyes"—was, with the assistance of several manned monitoring stations in New Mexico, able to coax Larry into providing more information about his status. In addition to saying that his father had died, Larry claimed
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between civilian, military, and paramilitary organizations. It was also the most expensive search and rescue operation New Mexico had ever experienced, with a conservative estimate in 1983 totaling $ 25,000 (equivalent to $ 171,589 in 2023)—not including the crashed airplane—while a liberal
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personally have never had any doubt that this is the real thing. I heard the kid crying. I just can't believe it isn't the real thing." Thursday, August 9, dawned especially hot in Albuquerque, the following hours reaching temperatures into the 90s of degrees
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Deputy Police Chief William J. Bullock. This Larry was the eldest child of the Lawrence Zmudzinski family. Lawrence's younger brother Louis informed Bullock by phone that the family had gone missing during a move from Ohio to
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it. We're getting all the nuts out of the woodwork now." Vetter believed that Saturday and Sunday's broadcast came from the
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1081:"Murder, Ghost Ships, and Strange Occurrences: 6 Peculiar Unsolved Mysteries From Around the World"
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