# You Are An Escaped Convict: How Best to Stay "At Large"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-an-escaped-convict-how-best-to-stay-at-large/551926>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-an-escaped-convict-how-best-to-stay-at-large/551926 "2010-08-29T23:36:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-an-escaped-convict-how-best-to-stay-at-large/551926/61 "2010-09-03T16:54:34Z")

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> [@Promethea](#):
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> Ann Rule’s book on Ted Bundy “The Stranger Beside Me” goes into quite a bit of detail about how Bundy managed to evade recapture for several months despite being one of the most wanted men in America.

Bundy’s first escape lasted six days; his second, 54 days. Hardly “several months.”

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**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-an-escaped-convict-how-best-to-stay-at-large/551926/62 "2010-09-07T18:27:56Z")

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As I see it, even if you are not an excaped con you couldn’t pull it off without a false identity. Tracking people’s real identities seems to be trivially easy these days, for someone determined enough. Just look at what’s available on line.

And once you have a false identity, you are already committing a crime and relying on false documents, and generally face many of the same problems that escaped cons face.

The real advantage you have over the escaped con is that the police are not after you as hard as they are after the escapee, and there’s not nearly as much publicity about you. Otherwise you’re pretty much in the same boat.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-an-escaped-convict-how-best-to-stay-at-large/551926/63 "2010-09-07T19:24:15Z")

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Form a traveling musical trio that sings old time bluegrass and gospel songs.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-an-escaped-convict-how-best-to-stay-at-large/551926/64 "2010-09-07T19:25:26Z")

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> [@astro](#):
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> Form a traveling musical trio that sings old time bluegrass and gospel songs.

Perfect! Other than your partners, no one will ever see you again.

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