however, it was a real shock that larry hillblom was suddenly gone. he'd arrived there 15 years before, and he'd become a larger-than-life character in the mariana islands. he bought the bank, he bought the airline, he bought the television and radio stations, he built dozens of businesses including the pawnshop and had been a bartender, so he was very well known. and there was a sort of myth those that was just incompatible with him being dead. but when they went to search for him, they found p two other bodies, the pilot and the speaker of the house, but hillblom's body was never recovered, so this sort of furthered the sense of disbelief. but they had to presume him dead, he was lost at sea, and a few days later hundreds of people flocked to kingsburg, california, a little town in central california just south of selma which is the raisin capital of the world. but hundreds of people including members of the saudi royal family and ceos of major corporations and billionaires as well as normal citizens, dhl drivers and friends from college descend on