72: Larry Hillblom: Saipan

Money, power, and mystery—three ingredients for a disappearance that still haunts the Pacific.
Larry Hillblom, co-founder of DHL, built a shipping empire and amassed a fortune. Yet, he chose to live in secrecy on a remote Pacific island, surrounded by scandal and whispers of something darker.
In 1995, his small plane crashed near Saipan. Wreckage was found. Bodies recovered. But Hillblom? Gone. No body. No trace. Just questions.
Did he perish in the ocean—or stage the ultimate escape? With mounting paternity lawsuits, a cryptic will, and a fortune at stake, his disappearance ignited one of history’s most bizarre legal battles.
Accident? Cover-up? Murder? Vanishing act?
Today, we unravel the strange, tangled mystery of Larry Hillblom—an empire-builder whose fate remains unknown.

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