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That is pretty good. The 3 guys who escaped from Alcatraz were never caught.
I would plan ahead while out on bail if possible (assuming at that time that I would try to escape later). Leave a stash of food and supplies in the wilderness across state lines. Live off that till I can find a way to get out of the country.
I’ve seen a flea market in Houston that has a booth set up where they’re openly selling fake ids. They’ll take your photo and make you a driver’s license. And they did other documents as well.
I know he didn’t mention finding a hot woman to take him in - but I couldn’t resist saying it - because he probably WILL find one 
- (maybe not so ‘hot’) - desperados like this are like catnip to some girls.
Whitey (he hates that nickname by the way) Bulger has eluded the cops for so long because basically he is smarter than the police. Remember, he was in cahoots with some clown in the FBI for years. Because of this, he knows a lot of what they know. Also Bulger is probably with a group of people who are of a certain class, and no one who doesn’t know him would ever think that this cute, little old man was anything like John Gotti. Whitey is probably somewhere in Europe under an alias. Maybe the women he ran away with died or somehow moved on.
Whitey wasn’t flashy, although he is a man with certain fine tastes and hobbies. (he likes history and museums for example) From all accounts, the man did not drink, does not like alcohol (or at least to intoxication) and he doesn’t do drugs. Because of this, he is not on a cop’s radar. Again, being like 80 years old also helps. People have the mistaken impression that the elderly are harmless, and this is not always the case, and an old Irish slugger from the white old school ghetto of Boston can easily kick the ass of a man half his age who runs across him and tries to catch him. Also, the elderly really change appearances between let’s say 60 and 80.
Whitey undoubtably stashed money and assets in different bank accounts and places all over the World. Organized criminals are good at this and keep people on the payroll just for these type of events. I am sure when Whitey left town, he had forged yet legal documents like a passport, birth certificate, licenses all done up for him. He probably invented an alias for himself all ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Bulger, if he is still alive is living a nice life in some country that doesn’t have the best relations with the United States and/or his advanced age and his alias escape plans were done years in advance with the unwitting help of a FBI agent friend. Whitey has two brothers, one who was convicted of perjury when it was discovered that he was in contact with Whitey, the other was a Massachuttes State Senator who had to vacate his position. I feel sorry for the brothers, because the were caught in a Catch-22. They could not go to the cops to report him, because the mob would kill them. They more or less had to walk a fine line with him, with the subject of work never ever coming up. Probably an unspoken vow of “I don’t know and you don’t tell me.” Even in the end, one lost their freedom for awhile and the other lost his political position rather than getting a bullet by a Westie. Shitty choice. Irish people tend to be very clannish with family being a very important part of life.
Money scattered about with international thugs in arms, friends and a proper plans for an escape route is how Whitey is still loose. He’ll be 81 this Friday. He might be dead.
I am cheering for him, but I would love that 2,ooo,ooo dollars.
Slightly OT: Suppose you’re NOT an escaped con. Suppose you’re a hitherto law abiding citizen who gets sick and tired of all the people around you and want to make a clean break and create a new life under a new identity. How easy is that to pull off?
I assume the police will put out a missing person’s bulletin on you, but I wouldn’t think they’d expend anything near the type of effort that they’d expend on an escaped con.
I’m sure you could pop to a lawyer’s office and get a document drawn up explaining that you don’t wish people to search for you. As long as there’s no evidence of foul play (the document will assist with that) and you don’t owe anyone money, I can’t see the police would be too fussed?
So it would be up to a third party to hire an investigator to track you down, so depends how deep their pockets are and what reason they might have for finding you.
I think finding a cult or self-sustaining group (maybe some Amish, or the survivalist-polygamist types that live in West Texas) might be a good bet.
I think it would be a good idea to learn Spanish and make your way down to Central or South America. Grow a beard, do manual labor, stay low. Friends and family are of course verboten. Try to age yourself. If you’re 35 but look 55, this is a helpful thing.
I think the reason most convicts get caught is because, well, they’re convicts. They weren’t bright enough to avoid getting caught in the first place. If you could get anywhere in the world, I’d recommend Africa. No-one ever seems to get extradited from Nigeria.
As someone mentioned, I think your best bet is to serve the time, especially if you’re not a high profile criminal and your prison isn’t a hotbed of rape. You’ll have to live via illicit means if you’re on the lam, and that means the folks you interact with won’t be very nice, honest, nor inclined to follow the golden rule. Crossing bad dudes in organized crime would make life much harder.
In all the stories I’ve heard, the needle in the haystack thing never, ever works. Nor does hiding in the open with a disguise. Imho, your best bet is to get off the grid and hide out as far away from other people as possible.
<Insert obligatory Nigerian email scam here>
Like a hare krishna ashram in Australia, allready tried and failed,the type of cult that would shelter you is already under police surveillance.
Rule #1: Don’t piss off the Israelis.
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. From memory, he followed a lot of the advice here. He moved somewhere where he had no friends and family, didn’t contact them, changed his name, grew a beard and rented cheap rooms. I can’t remember how he managed to squirrel a few hundred dollars together at first (from stealing then selling cars, I vaguely recall) but I do remember Rule noting him discovering that his plan to find even manual labour jobs under a fake identity was going to be difficult without i.d. (She also thinks he thought deep down that such work was beneath him and he didn’t want to work). He’d assumed they would ask fewer questions about Social Security numbers but they in fact did of him, even back in the '70s. Bundy eventually abandoned his plans to ‘go straight’ and was eventually arrested for driving a stolen car.
Of course, these ‘go straight’ plans were always kind of relative given that he also brutally raped and murdered three more young women and horrifically injured at least three others whilst on the run from the police. Obviously this is an extreme case but I’m betting that for many people the internal or external drivers that led them to commit the crimes they were arrested for in the first place are still there when they go back to the outside world. Only now they have the massive stress of being a fugitive added to the mix, making reoffending (and attention drawing) all the more likely.
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. :rolleyes:
How do the police know to contact your lawyer - or even that you have a lawyer - before commencing to search for you?
I’d leave a copy somewhere obvious in my home - given that this is a planned disappearance you’ll have the chance to get some affairs in order; I guess it depends if you want people to know you’ve gone, or whether you hope no-one will notice (in which case why would they search for you?).
You could even ask your lawyer to send a copy of the note to the local police at a time you specify.
Could a lawyer do anything at all for you while you’re a fugitive, except advise that you turn yourself in? Just from my TV legal education, it seems that an attorney would be committing a crime by helping you or even having demonstrable knowlege of your whereabouts (without dropping a dime, that is).
Or quite possibly didn’t survive the escape.
The assumption was that you had just decided to disappear voluntarily but you hadn’t committed any crime.
Boy .you want to wreck that story don’t you. No, they escaped and lived into their 90s.