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...first time the word criminal has come up in reference to Sue. In fact, her history since discovery has been a twisted tale of lawsuits, FBI raids, felony prosecutions and one of the longest criminal trials in South Dakota history--culminating in an 18-month jail sentence for Peter Larson, the man who dug Sue out of a hillside in the state...
...wrong place at the wrong time," says Larson, who was released last month. The place was South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, the time 1990. Larson was on a prospecting trip for the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a well-respected commercial fossil-supply house he founded in 1974. There's no law against selling fossils, even important ones, as long as they're found on private land, and that's what Larson thought he'd done. The acreage in question belonged to Maurice Williams, a Sioux cattle rancher, and Larson had secured permission in advance...
...person who actually found the dinosaur was Susan Hendrickson, then Larson's girlfriend. After 17 days of excavating, they had what would turn out to be the most pristine T. rex specimen ever found. Larson named the monster (which he thinks might even be female) Sue, in honor of her discoverer...
Hold on just a little longer, Far Side fans. Relief is at hand. Gary Larson, who retired the quirky cartoons in 1995, has written an illustrated book. There's a Hair in My Dirt is a fable about a frumpy woman told from a worm's-eye view, and is due out, appropriately enough, on Earth Day next year, April 22. Too long a wait? Larson's second animated film...
Sophomore Jessica Larson will control the defense as sweeper...