1965
Peter Citron arrested for sexual child abuse in Scarsdale, New York, but abuse charges were dropped.
Larry King began four-year hitch in Air Force, spending a year in Thailand, handling
top-secret information.
1969
Craig Spence employed by ABC as a Vietnam correspondent.
1970
Larry King became manager of the two-year-old Franklin Community Federal Credit Union.
1978
Eulice, Tracy, and Tasha Washington placed in the Webb household.
1978
According to Paul Bonacci, he started attending orgies at Alan Baer’s apartment.
1979
Craig Spence relocated from Tokyo, Japan to Washington, DC.
1982
Shawneta Moore alleged she was recruited for pedophilic parties at the Omaha Girls Club and within six months started attending satanic rituals—she was nine years old. Robert Wadman hired as OPD Chief.
1983
Alisha Owen said she attended first Twin Towers party.
1984
Larry King held lavish party at “Southfork” ranch during the GOP convention—Paul Bonacci said that he and other children were served to pedophiles at the convention. Autumn: Eulice Washington said that Larry King flew her and other underage children to Chicago.
1985
Spring: Eulice Washington alleged that Larry King flew her and other underage children to New York.
December: Eulice and Tracy Washington removed from Webb household.
1986
January: Eulice Washington passed NSP polygraph regarding repeated molestations by Jarrett Webb—no charges were filed against Webb.
March: Eulice and Tracy Washington, accompanied by foster mother Kathleen Sorenson, met with Boys Town youth worker Julie Walters on three occasions—Walters wrote a report on their allegations.
November: Charlie Rogers, a lover of Larry King’s, “committed suicide”—having told family members he feared for his life and if anything happened to him they should contact Douglas County Deputy Attorney Robert Sigler.
November: Omaha Mayor Mike Boyle fired OPD Chief Wadman for insubordination.
1987
March: After Mayor Boyle’s recall, a Douglas County Judge reinstated Wadman as OPD Chief.
1988
Larry King formed Council of Minority Americans—Jack Kemp, Alexander Haig, and former President Gerald Ford were on the “host committee.”
May: OPD’s Robbery and Sexual Assault Unit commenced “possible child pornography investigation” that implicated Rusty Nelson and Larry King.
June: OPD Robbery and Sexual Assault investigator Carmean interviewed Shawneta Moore at Richard Young Hospital, and she implicated Larry King in child exploitation and “devil worship.”
July: Carol Stitt, Director of Nebraska’s Foster Care Review Board, sent a letter to Nebraska Attorney General Robert Spire, notifying him of a “child exploitation ring” linked to “Larry King of Omaha.”
August: Larry King and the Council of Minority Americans held a $100,000 gala at the Republican National Convention—a video featuring Larry King and Jack Kemp, urging blacks to vote for George H.W. Bush, was shown at the gala.
November: The National Credit Union Association and FBI closed the Franklin Credit Union—regulators quickly determined that millions had been embezzled and the credit union had a second set of books.
November: Senator Loren Schmit introduced Legislative Resolution 5 (L.R. 5) on the floor of the Unicameral, and it was unanimously approved—L.R. 5 called for the formation of a subcommittee to investigate the failure of the Franklin Credit Union.
December: The Foster Care Review Board’s executive committee testified before the Unicameral and expressed their collective outrage about law enforcement’s inactivity regarding the child-abuse allegations.
December: In response to the Foster Care Review Board’s outrage, Nebraska Attorney General Robert Spire and OPD chief Wadman said that both agencies had conducted thorough investigations of the child-abuse allegations.
1989
January: L.R. 5 was given a sweeping mandate to investigate the Franklin Credit Union’s financial collapse and also accusations that law enforcement hadn’t properly investigated the child-abuse allegations—Senator Loren Schmit was appointed Chairman of the Franklin Committee and Senator Ernie Chambers was appointed Vice-Chair.
February: The Franklin Committee named Kirk Naylor as its special counsel.
February: FBI’s Special Agent in Charge of Nebraska and Iowa, Nicholas O’Hara, and OPD Chief Wadman asserted that their agencies had found no evidence supporting child-abuse allegations.
May: Larry King was charged with 40 counts of embezzlement, fraud, and tax evasion.
June: The Franklin Committee held public hearings.
June: The Washington Times started publishing a series of articles on Craig Spence and Henry Vinson.
July: Senator Chambers, Kirk Naylor, and Jerry Lowe resigned from the Franklin Committee.
July: Concerned Parents formed because of law enforcement’s unwillingness to investigate the child-abuse allegations.
August: Craig Spence was arrested in New York City for possession of a handgun and cocaine.
August: Gary Caradori replaced Jerry Lowe as the Franklin Committee’s investigator.
September: Alisha Owen sentenced to between three and four years for writing “bad checks.”
November: Craig Spence committed suicide in Boston, Massachusetts.
November: Gary Caradori took videotaped statements of Alisha Owen and Troy Boner.
December: Gary Caradori took videotaped statement of Danny King.
December: The Franklin Committee showed the videotaped statements to ranking officials from Nebraska law enforcement, and then submitted the videotapes to the Nebraska Attorney General and US Attorney for the District of Nebraska.
1990
January: Nebraska Attorney General Robert Spire called for a grand jury to be impaneled.
February: The Douglas County District Court judges signed an order for a Douglas County grand jury to be impaneled, and appointed retired Lancaster County Judge Samuel Van Pelt as its special prosecutor.
February: Federal Magistrate Kopf preemptively ordered that US marshals transport Larry King to the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri for a “mental health evaluation.”
February: Peter Citron arrested for felonious sexual assault on two children.
March: The Douglas County grand jury formally convened at the Douglas County Courthouse.
March: Larry King declared incompetent to stand trial and was sent to the US Medical Facility in Rochester, MN.
March: The FBI pressured Danny King and Troy Boner to recant their videotaped statements to Caradori.
March: The Lincoln Journal and Omaha World-Herald reported that two of the victims videotaped by Caradori had flunked FBI polygraphs.
April: The FBI interviewed Alisha Owen for the last time at York—she refused to recant her videotaped statements to Caradori.
May: Caradori videotaped Paul Bonacci at the Lincoln County Correctional Center,and he corroborated Owen, Boner, and Danny King on multiple accounts.
June: Caradori wrote a letter to renowned attorney, Gerry Spence, requesting legal representation because he was being “set up” to take a fall for fabricating the child-abuse allegations.
July: Caradori’s airplane mysteriously broke up over Lee County, Illinois, killing Caradori and his eight-year-old son.
July: The Douglas County grand jury declared the child-abuse allegations were a “carefully crafted hoax”—Alisha Owen and Paul Bonacci were indicted on perjury charges.
July: A federal grand jury indicted Henry Vinson on 43 counts, which included racketeering, credit card fraud, interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, and money-laundering.
September: A federal grand jury exonerated Larry King of being an interstate, pedophilic-pimp and indicted Alisha Owen on eight counts of perjury.
November: After state and federal grand juries exonerated Larry King of child abuse, he
was declared competent to stand trial.
November: Alisha Owen’s brother was found dead in his cell—his death was ruled a suicide.
1991
January: The Franklin Committee was disbanded.
January: Troy Boner’s brother shot himself in the head playing “Russian roulette.”
January: Vinson pled guilty to conspiracy and credit card fraud.
February: Larry King pled guilty to his financial crimes and was sentenced to fifteen years in a federal prison.
February: John DeCamp filed civil rights lawsuits on behalf of Paul Bonacci against the Catholic Archbishop of Omaha, Larry King, Peter Citron, Alan Baer, Harold Andersen,Robert Wadman, and others.
May: The State of Nebraska v. Alisha Owen began with a pretrial hearing.
June: Alisha Owen found guilty on eight counts of perjury.
June: Vinson sentenced to sixty-three months in prison.
August: Judge Case sentenced Alisha Owen to between nine and fifteen years for perjury.
1992
February: Alisha Owen served sentence for her “bad check” conviction, and was released on a $500,000 surety bond as John DeCamp appealed her perjury conviction.
1993
October: Troy Boner submitted his “lie or die” affidavit to John DeCamp, confessing that threats from the FBI forced him to lie at the Douglas County grand jury and also at Alisha Owen’s trial.
1994
December: Troy Boner was strong-armed at the Douglas County Courthouse shortly before a hearing for Alisha Owen—his testimony would have reiterated the contents of his October 1993 affidavit.
1996
March: Alisha Owen was sent back to prison.
1999
February: Federal District Court Judge Warren Urbom granted Paul Bonacci a $1 million default judgment against Larry King.
2000
September: Alisha Owen was paroled after serving four and a half years.
2001
April: Larry King was paroled after nine years and ten months.
2003
February: Troy Boner died in a Texas psychiatric hospital.
Nick Bryant
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