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...were so excited," said sophomore back Jessica Larson. "If we had lost, we would have lost our chance to go to the NCAA tournament...
...Larson then wrote Williams a check for $5,000 and shipped the bones to institute headquarters in Hill City, S.D., where he planned to catalog, prepare, mount and display the magnificent skeleton. Larson started giving public lectures and publishing popular articles on Sue. Tourists began streaming...
Then, in May 1992, a different kind of visitor arrived: FBI agents and National Guard troops, among others, raided the Black Hills Institute, seizing Sue and other fossils, along with photos, business records and documents. In 1993 a federal grand jury indicted Larson and five colleagues on a total of 39 felony charges, including stealing fossils from government land...
Meanwhile, after a seven-week trial and two weeks of deliberation, a jury convicted Larson on only two felonies--failing to report $31,700 in travelers' checks to U.S. Customs when he returned from Japan, and failing to report $15,000 in cash that he and a friend took on a trip to Peru. He was also convicted of two misdemeanors: illegally taking a fossil worth less than $100 from federal land and illegally retaining another small fossil. On his Bureau of Prisons admission form, Larson's offense was listed as "failure to fill out forms...
Ironically, the Black Hills Institute may yet get its bones back. Larson's organization has kept its hand in the game by contributing material to the auction catalog and advising Sotheby's on how to care for the fossils. Thanks to a wealthy benefactor named Stanford Adelstein, the institute will make a serious bid on Sue this week. And it's no secret how South Dakotans feel about the prospect of bringing their T. rex home. Said Governor William Janklow in a statement released by the institute: "She belongs in South Dakota. She lived and died here, and we want...