What Happened to Larry?
At around 11 PM on January 12, 2003, 40-year-old Larry Groves, who lived alone but for his two dogs were on the phone with his friend Sandy Smith from Mississippi. The pair were only 10 minutes into their nightly catch-up when someone on the other side of Larry's door began bringing it on. A man was heard angrily shouting to be let in. Concerned smith asked Larry who it was. Larry said he would handle it and call her back in 20 minutes, but Larry never called back, and he was never heard from again. On January 28, Larry's mother, Wanda, filed a missing report on her son. She found out nobody had heard from Larry in weeks and had not been attending to his successful antique business. Upon entering his house, authorities found no trace of the 40-year-old or his two dogs. The house was immaculate with nothing taken, nor out of place. This was confirmed by his mother, who searched the house for clues on Memorial Day weekend in May and by his sister Pam Spence who also looked for details police might have overlooked in her brother's hips that April. Then on June 18, roughly five months after Larry was last heard from his neighbour, a man named dick shall.
He noticed that the peach Tree in Larry's garden was starting to come far over the fence, which
separated their properties. the ripened fruit the fell to the ground was attracting knees that started to attack shaliol's dog every time he let it outside, mildly annoyed by this. He began cutting back the branches which hung over the fence; it was at this point that the chaleon noticed something disturbing. Great big bull flies covered the inside of a window in Larry's house. The exterior siding looked as though it had painted black he realized now that the crows that frequently gathered on the fence had been feasting on these bugs. Uncomfortable with what he was seeing, shallop imminently called derl bennet the owner of the property. Durl was the father of Larry's partner. Tom, who had passed away from a heart attack in 2001. The two lived together in the home since Larry was 17 after derl had given the property to its son. Once Tom has passed away, however, ownership reverted to dual, who told Larry that he could continue to live in the bungalow as long as he wanted. Inside the home shallop and bennet were hit with a foul odour. They thought it must have been the rotting meat in the fridge, but it wasn't. Darryl and Bennett realize it was perhaps coming from the crawl space together. The men move Larry's desk, pull back the rug, and pull back the rug, revealing the trap door to the crawl space birthday and find a badly decomposed body of Larry Groves.
His body had disintegrated so badly in the summer heat that it was the cause of death. It could not be determined Larry's family Wanda \ and Pam were sickened by the fact that Larry was right under their noses when they searched for clues around the house after speaking further with friends and family. Indiana state police and the only suspect in the case, the man who had turned up at the door on January 12, two thousand three on June 18 that same year on the same day that the body was found by police for questioning. Detective Don curl, who worked on the case, described the suspect, who has never been publicly named, has been called cold and calculated, never losing his composure or rising to the bait. The interview ended with the remaining suspect silent until his lawyer arrived. After telling the police that he had already revealed everything, he knew an article from 2007 stated that police hadn't spoken with the man since this initial interview.
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