I’ve never met Larry but did have some discussions with him over the phone about outfitting issues with the US Forest Service. I was on the BoD of the Colorado Outfitters Association at the time and SCI helped us with several things. Larry was very helpful, as was the SCI staff. I came away with a good feeling.
Later, I was surprised to hear he and a hunting partner had been accused by SCI of taking pictures with each other’s animals for the purposes of entering more animals in the SCI Awards programs than they had actually each killed. As the story above states, Larry sued SCI for defamation and the case was settled.
Now, he is at the center of a far more tragic situation. I hope he is innocent but I can see both sides of this and everything is very circumstantial. I wouldn’t want to be on that jury!