>> that's joe, indian joe. there. >> reporter: if we find joe, he'll be able to lead us to jerry? >> i certainly hope so because joe, to my knowledge, knows everybody in that neighborhood. >> reporter: it sounded like a crazy story and larry well knew it. >> if i was a guy out there watching "dateline," i wouldn't believe this. i would be the first person to say, oh, this guy is full of baloney. it's like watching a tv show. >> reporter: it is like watching a tv show. and you're telling us to go search for the one-armed man. >> yes. that's a good analogy, yes. >> reporter: and so we went to try to check out larry's story. was he telling the truth this time? or was it a lie just like the ones he told his family? we combed the area around his old photo studio, an industrial area near the freeway full of warehouses and alleys in search of an injun joe who might lead us to jerry. we found this old rv and inside? >> joe, indian joe. >> reporter: coming up -- larry hoagland's wild story seems to be checking out. >> he

indian students. he wants to cut them and make room for other people. >> i heard he actually wants to kill them. go back in time as babies. >> so joew trading on the fact that he's mindi kaling's brother. isn't that the real affirmative action here? >> he certainly looks more. than -- >> he can get al kinds of funny. i think it amatsuzakawas funny the part of his name he changed was his first name. if he to identify as black, who are we to say? if you want to identify as a different gender that's a personal call. when you look at ethnicities, there's all these different countries people come from and combinations and possibilities. if he identifies as black why can't he? >> and going back in time aren't we all technically iranian american or african-american. >> why not get in the system. if that's what the system is who is to say he was wrong for trying that? >> the other thing is -- how i look at this is if you accept what he said was true, what he did was proved that there is affirmative action which we already know there's affirmative action. separate argument as to whether there should be affirmative action but he didn't prove