... and his little gold digger Parachuting investor caught in Fla. after fleeing Yahoo! Buzz Digg Newsvine Reddit FacebookWhat's this?HARPERSVILLE, Alabama (AP) — With his world crumbling around him, investment adviser Marcus Schrenker opted for a bailout. However, his plan to escape personal turmoil was short-lived. In a feat reminiscent of a James Bond movie, the 38-year-old businessman and amateur daredevil pilot apparently tried to fake his death in a plane crash, secretly parachuting to the ground and speeding away on a motorcycle he had stashed away in the pine barrens of central Alabama. But the captivating three-day saga came to an end when authorities finally caught up to Schrenker in North Florida. Gadsden County Sheriff's Lt. Jim Corder said late Tuesday night that police there had Schrenker in custody. Schrenker was on the run not only from the law but from divorce, a state investigation of his businesses and angry investors who accuse him of stealing potentially millions in savings they entrusted to him. "We've learned over time that he's a pathological liar — you don't believe a single word that comes out of his mouth," said Charles Kinney, a 49-year-old airline pilot from Atlanta who alleges Schrenker pocketed at least $135,000 of his parents' retirement fund. On Sunday — two days after burying his beloved stepfather and suffering a half-million-dollar loss in federal court the same day — Schrenker was flying his single-engine Piper Malibu to Florida from his Indiana home when he radioed from 2,000 feet (600 meters) that he was in trouble. He told the tower the windshield had imploded, and that his face was plastered with blood. Then his radio went silent. Military jets tried to intercept the plane and found the door open, the cockpit dark. The pilots followed until the aircraft crashed in a Florida Panhandle bayou surrounded by homes. There was no sign of Schrenker's body. They now know they should never have expected to find one. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-01-13-smallplane-crash_N.htm
I don't get this. How do you fake your own death if there's no body? Did he just hope the plane would burn like hell thus incinerating the wreckage and the "body"? Also, what's the deal with him approaching police with his canoe accident claim after the crash?
he should have crashed in the ocean then again . . the chances of him ACTUALLY DYING increases but no risk . . no reward Rocket River yea. . he got caught . . so that makes him a douche BOND WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT!
I went to part of my junior year of hs in the town that guy crashed in... and I have a distant cousin, or six, in the town he was captured in... both towns off I-10. Sounds like he was eventually headed toward the Bahamas via SoBe.
He went through all that trouble (even had a getaway motorcycle nearby where he parachuted) to fake his own death and didn't think about the no body issue. Guy didn't have time to watch CSI because he was too busy stealing everyone's money.
The thing that bothers me the most about this story is: "The pilots followed until the aircraft crashed in a Florida Panhandle bayou surrounded by homes. " What if his plane had crashed in a house like what happened last month in San Diego? This guy is a sleazy douche but potentially putting people in harms way as part of your get away scheme, now that is despicable.
I kind of hope they can get attempted murder charges or something on him. Jumping out of a plane and letting it crash deserves some prison time.
Is there a blonde chick in that picture worth going ga-ga over? It's a small pic, but her face actually looks kinda rough to me.
What blonde chick? I only see a piece of plastic. RR is right. It'd have been much smarter to crash in the ocean. Of course, since he crashed in the panhandle, maybe he was hoping for the ocean but fell short.
Well, even if he had planned to have a fake body... he couldn't have planned for the fact that they mustered up a military aircraft to fly out to meet him so quickly. And that they could clearly see he had already popped open the hatch and there was no one inside the airplane. And they followed him for miles before it crashed. Either way, major fail. Hilarious.
Well I guess he misjudged how long it would take for the fighter pilots to arrive (even though there was a nearby military base) and probably assumed his plane would make it to the ocean before crashing. Strange that he went to the police. Idiot and douche? Yes. But props for trying.
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