lesleygalaxy
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I was wondering if anyone had any information on the plane wreck on December 16, 1982, that crashed in the village of Montgomery in southwest Ohio. It was carrying Carl Johnson, a known bank embezzler to Cincinnati's Lunken airport to begin looking for about $50,000 in a hidden location, "wooded area" in the Cincinnati area. Johnson and the agents had already found other large amounts in the Chicago area, in places such as under a church pew, and in another "wooded area." It is known that he also worked and lived in the Cincinnati area for some time, although the information has been buried. If anyone has any leads or ideas to his Cincinnati history please share! I think it is an interesting story and also a mysterious treasure! Here's an exert from Time magazine near the time of the crash:
"An FBI search ends in tragedy. When a twin-engine Cessna lost power and crashed in Montgomery, Ohio, last week, four FBI agents and a retired policeman were killed, the largest single-day loss of FBI agents. But the revelation that the sixth passenger, Carl Johnson, had been declared legally dead just weeks before the crash put a bizarre twist on the disaster.
Johnson, 48, had been missing since 1975, when he was accused of embezzling $614,851 from a Chicago bank where he worked. Johnson's wife Lois had him declared legally dead by a court last Nov. 4. But Johnson was far from dead; he had been living in San Diego and had become an active member of the Religious Science Church Center there. Johnson turned himself in to authorities on Dec. 2. Eight days later Johnson led FBI agents to a cache of $53,000 he had buried in a wooded area northwest of Chicago. When the Cessna crashed, Johnson was helping agents find $55,000 he said he had buried near Cincinnati. Johnson's attorney, Louis Garippo, said that his client was the only person who knew the exact location of the loot."
This is a memorial from the Cincinnati division of the FBI:
"In December 1982, tragedy struck when four Chicago Division agents were killed in an airplane accident near Montgomery, Ohio. The agents— Terry Burnett Hereford, Charles L. Ellington, Robert W. Conners, and Michael James Lynch —were accompanying bank fraud suspect Carl Henry Johnson and an individual from the law firm representing him to an area where agents believed Johnson had stashed $50,000 in embezzled money. The plane—which was piloted by two of the agents and was apparently experiencing problems with its altitude readings—crashed on approach to Lunken Airport. No one aboard survived."
Also a phrase from the Cincinnati Enquirer on the 25th anniversary of the crash:
"Afterward, there was a short-lived craze where people searched for the money, but it has never been reported found."
"An FBI search ends in tragedy. When a twin-engine Cessna lost power and crashed in Montgomery, Ohio, last week, four FBI agents and a retired policeman were killed, the largest single-day loss of FBI agents. But the revelation that the sixth passenger, Carl Johnson, had been declared legally dead just weeks before the crash put a bizarre twist on the disaster.
Johnson, 48, had been missing since 1975, when he was accused of embezzling $614,851 from a Chicago bank where he worked. Johnson's wife Lois had him declared legally dead by a court last Nov. 4. But Johnson was far from dead; he had been living in San Diego and had become an active member of the Religious Science Church Center there. Johnson turned himself in to authorities on Dec. 2. Eight days later Johnson led FBI agents to a cache of $53,000 he had buried in a wooded area northwest of Chicago. When the Cessna crashed, Johnson was helping agents find $55,000 he said he had buried near Cincinnati. Johnson's attorney, Louis Garippo, said that his client was the only person who knew the exact location of the loot."
This is a memorial from the Cincinnati division of the FBI:
"In December 1982, tragedy struck when four Chicago Division agents were killed in an airplane accident near Montgomery, Ohio. The agents— Terry Burnett Hereford, Charles L. Ellington, Robert W. Conners, and Michael James Lynch —were accompanying bank fraud suspect Carl Henry Johnson and an individual from the law firm representing him to an area where agents believed Johnson had stashed $50,000 in embezzled money. The plane—which was piloted by two of the agents and was apparently experiencing problems with its altitude readings—crashed on approach to Lunken Airport. No one aboard survived."
Also a phrase from the Cincinnati Enquirer on the 25th anniversary of the crash:
"Afterward, there was a short-lived craze where people searched for the money, but it has never been reported found."
