astro
December 21, 2009, 3:22am
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Pretty interesting story re this fugitive! I didn’t see this getting much play in the headlines.
America’s most wanted: doctor found living in tent on Mont Blanc
On 21 September 2004, Michelle Weinberger woke up on the 79ft powerboat that she and her husband, Mark, owned as it rocked gently in the waters of a marina on the Greek island of Mykonos.
“I put my hand on his side of the bed, and I remember feeling it empty,” she later told the US television channel NBC. Weinberger leapt from bed in alarm to find that her husband had vanished, taking with him his passport and money he had stashed secretly on board.
It was the beginning of a five-year flight from justice that ended this week even more strangely than it began, almost 6,000 feet up in the Italian Alps. Two officers of the paramilitary Carabinieri, led by a mountain guide, trudged up to the southern slopes of Mont Blanc to find one of America’s most wanted fugitives living in a tent. He was surviving in temperatures as low as -18C on dried and tinned food and snow he melted on a portable stove.
I usually just lurk because I find others say it better, but damn. Two days and no responses? So, um, do you think WebVan delivers to Mt. Blanc? Tip yer waitress.
Ale
December 23, 2009, 2:34am
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The most bizarre and freakish thing is the amount of dough that guy was making per week on plastic surgeries. Damn…
It’s had a fair amount of coverage here in the Chicago area.
They’ll go apeshit on America’s Most Wanted this Saturday.
200K a week? Nice while it lasted, I guess.
At least he didn’t sustain a nasty injury by hiding a tiny sharp knife in his underwear.