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