# Missing Fugitive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-fugitive/622883>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 23, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-fugitive/622883 "2012-05-23T22:10:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-fugitive/622883/1 "2012-05-23T22:10:42Z")

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My local news keeps reporting that the police have been searching for a “missing fugitive”.

If he is a fugitive he is obviously missing, right? Or is that not right?

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-fugitive/622883/2 "2012-05-23T22:15:40Z")

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Nope. You can be a fugative and they know exactly where you are. Like [Ira Einhorn.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn)

Or [Joanne Chesimard.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur)

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-fugitive/622883/3 "2012-05-23T22:23:03Z")

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Ok,thanks. Interesting article on Einhorn,BTW.

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-fugitive/622883/4 "2012-05-23T23:52:45Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> My local news keeps reporting that the police have been searching for a “missing fugitive”.
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> If he is a fugitive he is obviously missing, right? Or is that not right?

from the Department of Redundancy Department. Just like “7 a.m. in the morning.” or “exact same.”