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Larry Wilder Gets Candid
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Embracing Adversity
Southern Indiana attorney Larry Wilder opens up about
love and life-defining moments
BY RICK REDDING | PHOTO OF LARRY WILDER BY CHRISTIAN WATSON
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY BY JESS AND GENIE VOGELSANG OF BIRDSONG WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
When Larry Wilder and his now-wife Teresa were
dating, she once shared an embarrassing personal
story and then asked if he could remember an
embarrassing moment in his own life. Larry
thought he was being set up.
That’s because he has perhaps one of the “best”
embarrassing stories – a tale that put him in the
national headlines and still today, 10 years later,
comes up first in Google searches for his name.
It wasn’t until that moment while swapping
stories months into their relationship that Teresa
realized the charming guy she was dating and
falling in love with was the same person she’d seen
images of passed out in a trash can in the news.
Today, Larry may be the best-known lawyer in
Southern Indiana, especially since representing
high-profile clients such as the infamous Katina
Powell, who wrote the book that rocked the
University of Louisville athletics department.
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But it was his defense of a murder suspect, he
believes, that led to what he now calls the “trash
can incident” and, more importantly, the ultimate
test of character.
“I ended up out with a group of guys, one
of whom unfortunately had lost his mother in
a horrible crime, and I was representing the
gentleman who had taken his mother’s life. We
probably spent too much time in the same place
out together,” Larry said. “He thought he was
getting a great prank on me at the end of the night
because I didn’t have any idea what was going on.
He got a whole lot more bang for his buck because
he didn’t realize the police officers who came to
investigate this potential crime included a police
officer that I had probably tormented more than
I should have.”
Larry still doesn’t recall how he ended up in the
trash can passed out in front of his house but was