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Kern County lost several local history makers in 2007. Some left their mark on the county’s face and culture. Some forged the way for underrepresented populations. And some were just plain interesting. Larry Kleier Larry Kleier, the former Kern County Sheriff responsible for building Lerdo Jail, died Jan. 5. He was 72. Kleier, sheriff from 1983 to 1987, joined the sheriff’s department as a deputy in 1958. He was sheriff during the probe into a satanic molestation ring during the 1980s. The original allegations spoke of perhaps 22 dead infants, 85 adult suspects and many children forced to drink and eat human blood and flesh, stab babies and perform sex acts. Most convictions in the cases fell apart after a flood of victims recanted. The reasons included flawed interview techniques, legal technicalities and prosecutorial misconduct. Kleier strongly defended children who made the allegations. In a 2005 interview with The Californian,...
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