Bradley Larabee

*"If there's one thing I can't stand it's people who answer a question with a question." - Bradley Larabee*

**Bradley Larabee** is a former Ashford Falls resident currently living near Choctaw Ridge, North Dakota where he owns a horse ranch raising and racing horses.

Born in Ashford Falls, New York in 1945, Larabee is the son of James Larabee, a wealthy New England lawyer and Naomi Hedison, an Ashford Falls resident. However, he was largely raised in Stratford, Connecticut, making summer trips to visit as he was growing up. Through his teens and early twenties, he made a reputation for himself as a urban explorer, poking through the abandoned Hathaway House and Trout House in the area as well as the boarded up former town hall. He also took the role of an older brother to his cousin, Ty Hedison, the step-son of his uncle Carter Hedison, creating an emotional bond the younger boy needed, but Bradley attended college through the Sixties and lost contact with Ty for several years, complicated by the fact that Ty was sent to the Edmonds School for Wayward Boys after getting accused of burning down the Hedison Mansion.

Bradley briefly visited Ashford Falls in 1987 and was dismayed to hear that Tyler had been committed to Ardmore Sanitarium after the death of his mother. Visiting him, Ty confessed that he felt his mother had been murdered by his father, giving Bradley his first inkling that Carter Hedison was not the irreputable businessman he claimed to be. His mother dismissed his accusations, but Bradley took his cousin Rachel Hedison horseback riding at the Ashford Falls Riding Stables trying to get her to reveal what she knew about the case, but his interrogation only provoked her suspicions about the case. Somehow learning about the news, Carter sent Lou Riley to rough up Bradley at the old Coleman Garage site and frighten him off, but Bradley got the upper hand and tossed Riley out of the upstairs window.

In 1989, James Larabee passed away during a business trip in Toronto and left Bradley inherited the horse farm near Choctaw Ridge, North Dakota. Still an avid horse rider, he revived it and used it to develop a reputation for breeding race horses. Naomi instead returned home to Ashford Falls, where she courted by businessman Nathan Featherstone, a relationship which she praised to Bradley in glowing terms, but when she started asking uncomfortable questions about the death of Carter's wife in 1987, Carter conspired with psychologist Dr. Felix Osmond to have her committed at Ardmore Sanitarium, claiming she was becoming delusional and uncontrollable. When Bradley's phone calls to her went unanswered, he traveled to Ashford Falls and learned of his mother's forced commitment, pulling a favor from former mayor Lionel Creekmore to have her released. Before heading to the hospital to get her, he traveled to the Hedison Mansion, shoving his way past manservant Edward Ashworth and punching out Carter, threatening to kill him if he ever came after his mother again.

Carter refused to press assault charges on his nephew to avoid further questions on his wife's murder, but he didn't talk to Bradley or Naomi for several years. Bradley did team up with social worker George Albert to help Ty after Carter had him recommitted at Ardmore. Bradley has had little to do with Carter or Rachel Hedison over the years, but he and Blake Hedison have been moving to a reconciliation. He has been living with local weather girl, Natalie Lawson, for three years, the two of them having a son named Gabriel.