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Chism is wanted for charges stemming from his escape from the Lonoke County Jail in Arkansas in December of 1978. At the time of his escape, Chism was serving a 40 year state sentence for armed robbery and narcotics violations followed by an additional 30 year federal sentence for kidnapping and hijacking an airplane.
Mar 22, 2021 · He has been escaped since 1978, which is the longest any fugitive has been evading authorities while on the U.S. Marshals Most Wanted List. He was originally imprisoned for bank robbery and a drug ring that he turned out to be leading while in college at Memphis State University. Article continues below advertisement. Source: Twitter.
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Real Name: Larry Porter Chism
Aliases: Kenneth Lamar Brookins, Jack Coffman, Gary Joseph Buoni, Gary Joseph Buomi, Gerald Goleman, Douglas D. Baker, Charles Cox, Alan Barry, Warren Smith, Daniel Barry, Mark Anthony Baldwin, Theodore Lee Mason, Earl F. McClain, Carl McClair, James La Blanc, James M. Simpson, James F. Hedrick, Ralph Blair, Charles B. Purtie, Howard Smith III
Wanted For: Hijacking, Kidnapping, Attempted Murder, Escape
Missing Since: May 1980
Details: Larry Chism was a law student who organized a drug ring between classes. He and other students smuggled heroin in from Mexico. In 1974, he was arrested on armed robbery and narcotics charges. He was later convicted on those charges and sentenced to forty years in prison. While there, he appeared to be a model inmate. However, he secretly began planning an escape.
On September 13, 1978, Chism and several other inmates went on a bowling trip. While there, Chism went to the bathroom. Suspicious, one of the guards, Howard Talley, followed him. In the bathroom, Chism pulled out a shotgun that had been hidden in the ceiling by a friend. He fired at Talley, seriously wounding him. Talley returned fire, hitting him in the hand. Chism and three other inmates then took eighteen-year-old bowling alley employee Carolyn Fielder hostage. They fired at prison guards as they fled the scene in a stolen car. Eventually, they let her go without harming her.
Chism and the other inmates then took the owner of Dickson Municipal Airport hostage, forcing him to fly them in a plane to Arkansas. Three days later, he was arrested after kidnapping a civilian and being involved in a shootout with police. However, he escaped again in December of 1978. Another inmate climbed through the vents and stole a guard's keys. He let Chism out of his cell and the two overpowered a guard and stole his car. One month later, Chism resurfaced in Cincinnati, Ohio. He walked into the First National Bank, posing as a U.S. Treasury Officer. He showed the bank president a bomb and demanded $200,000. He then walked out with the money and disappeared.
In summer 1979, Chism arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked several manual labor jobs and dated a woman there. In May 1980, he was discovered living in Mobile, Alabama with his girlfriend. However, he and his girlfriend vanished before he could be arrested. A week later, she returned and said that she had left him at a rest stop in Meridian, Mississippi. He has not been seen since. He may be in Arkansas, where he was born and raised. He is 5'10", 160 pounds, has black hair, and brown eyes. He was born on December 19, 1948 and would now be in his early seventies.
Extra Notes: The original airdate for this case was January 3, 1990, it aired in an FBI Alert along with Wardell Ford. Chism was also profiled several times on America’s Most Wanted, most recently in the 2021 revival.
Results: Wanted. In 1990, a tip led the FBI to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Chism was living under the alias "Kenneth Brookins" with a woman who called herself "Debra Brookins" and their alleged daughter, "Brenda". However, once again, he vanished before he could be caught. He reportedly had seen himself on Unsolved Mysteries and decided to flee with his wife and daughter. In his haste, he left behind several clues that showed how he was hiding from authorities, such as laminating machines, books about how to change one's identity/appearance, and a pay stub with the name "Kenneth Brookins".
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Oct 31, 2023 · He was placed on the U.S. Marshals’ and FBI’s Wanted List, and in 1990, he was featured on the television show Unsolved Mysteries, generating national exposure that led him to flee again. He is considered armed and dangerous, but his whereabouts have remained unknown since 1990.
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Chism is wanted for charges stemming from his escape from the Lonoke County Jail in Arkansas in December of 1978. At the time of his escape, Chism was serving a 40 year state sentence for armed robbery and narcotics violations followed by an additional 30 year federal sentence for kidnapping and hijacking an airplane.
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To date, Larry Porter Chism has been the longest-lasting fugitive on the USMS Most Wanted List. He is believed to still be alive today and would be in his early 70's if so. Until such time that an update is warranted, his story remains unresolved.
