Fake airplane crash didn’t help man escape his past
HARPERSVILLE, Ala. — With his globe crumbling around him, investment adviser Marcus Schrenker opted with respect to 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 director apparently tried to fake his debt of nature in a even crash, privily parachuting to the ground and speeding away on a motorcycle he had stashed away.
But the captivating three-day saga came to every end when authorities finally caught up to Schrenker in North Florida. Gadsden County Sheriff’s Lt. Jim Corder said late Tuesday obscurity that police there had Schrenker in watch.
Federal authorities say he had been found alive in a pavilion at a campground in northern Florida after he apparently slit one of his wrists.
“He had cut one of his wrists, but he is subdue active,” said U.S. Marshals spokesman Michael Richards.
Schrenker was on the run not only from the law but also from divorce, a dignity 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’session a pathological liar — you don’t believe a honest vocable that comes in a puzzle 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 — couple days after sepulture his beloved stepfather and suffering a half-million-dollar loss in federal court the corresponding; of like kind day — Schrenker was flying his single-engine Piper Malibu to Florida from his Indiana home when he radioed from 2,000 feet 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 debatable, the cockpit dark. The aircraft crashed in a Florida Panhandle bayou surrounded by homes. There was no sign of Schrenker’sitting body.
