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Episode 274 - Larry Hillblom: Who’s Your Daddy?

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 1995, the billionaire founder of DHL disappeared off of the face of the planet and left behind a closet full of skeletons. The aftermath stirred up one of the most colossal, convoluted shit storms you’ve never heard of. Two plane crashes, underage sex trafficking, missing DNA, cover-ups, private detectives, and a billion dollars of inheritance left in the air – this is the story of Larry Hillblom.

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0:00.0

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0:18.3

I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded. Yes, we have no headphones on because once again

0:24.5

someone has fucked up the studio and it's not working. But we are putting our trust, our good faith

0:31.8

in the audio gods, in the audio gods and in your hands dear listener. And you're not here to

0:37.9

listen to us complain about tech issues. You'll hear DeHarris talk about some mental case.

0:42.4

Yeah, this is quite something. It's a potential fakie deathy which I don't think we've done since

0:46.8

Kenu Man. No, I like people messages and they're like, oh, do you be Cooper and I'm like, oh no,

0:52.2

no, no, never. I'd rather sit on a hot grill. Well, there you go. So no hot grill sitting today,

0:58.4

but a possibly fakie death one. So let's do it. If we've learned anything over the past few years,

1:04.0

whether it was the Paradise Papers, Trump, Wirecard, Putin's Cronies, or of course Epstein's

1:11.0

PewDiePie Island. And this guy doesn't have the same name recognition as like a Steve Jobs or

1:17.2

a Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. But this enigmatic billionaire certainly did change the world.

1:23.7

And we're not going to bother today with how he did that. No, no, no, because today's episode

1:29.0

is all about the lesser known events of this man's volatile and depraved private life.

1:34.8

On the 21st of May 1995, billionaire American entrepreneur Larry Lee Hillblum took off

1:41.7

in his tiny vintage two-engine aeroplane. He flew this little plane, 450 nautical miles

1:48.7

from the island of Saipan, Neguam, where he lived to Vietnam. Guam is a US territory. So that is why he is

1:57.8

yeah, that makes sense. Now, despite being richer than God and having been in a plane crash a few years

2:03.2

previously, Larry never really cared too much about servicing or maintaining his crappy vintage planes.

2:09.6

Lightning doesn't strike twice after all does it? Hillblum certainly thought so.

2:13.6

But on this day, it did. As a little plane's wheels left the runway and then banked over the

2:19.2

Philippine Sea, the engine began to struggle. And Larry disappeared. Days passed with numerous

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