Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Truth is stranger than fiction .
Over the past year I have enjoyed many books of the genre "Thriller". These novels are a joy to read and the adventures of the characters are great. A lot of planning goes into these stories and what makes them so good is the feasibility of what is going on. You believe that these tales could, with a lot of expert planning, happen in real life. But these are just characters in a book, the imagination and research of the author.
Marcus Schrenker, however, takes things to a new level. He has not written a book but has numerous financial problems and his wife has filed for divorce. So he does a disappearing act and tries to fake his own death. He claimed his aircraft had problems, jumped out with a parachute leaving the plane to crash. He hoped people would assume he had been killed in the crash and he could start his life again in dead man's footsteps. His rather wet footsteps approached Police claiming he had been involved in a canoe accident. He then rides away on a motorcycle that he had stored away previously for his escape to his new future. Click the link above to read the full story.
Had his attention to detail and research been as good as a top selling crime/thriller author, then his plan would have worked! What a thrilling newspaper story this was to read. Far more spectacular than the case of John Darwin and his canoe from Seaton Carew, Hartlepool.
Over the past year I have enjoyed many books of the genre "Thriller". These novels are a joy to read and the adventures of the characters are great. A lot of planning goes into these stories and what makes them so good is the feasibility of what is going on. You believe that these tales could, with a lot of expert planning, happen in real life. But these are just characters in a book, the imagination and research of the author.
Marcus Schrenker, however, takes things to a new level. He has not written a book but has numerous financial problems and his wife has filed for divorce. So he does a disappearing act and tries to fake his own death. He claimed his aircraft had problems, jumped out with a parachute leaving the plane to crash. He hoped people would assume he had been killed in the crash and he could start his life again in dead man's footsteps. His rather wet footsteps approached Police claiming he had been involved in a canoe accident. He then rides away on a motorcycle that he had stored away previously for his escape to his new future. Click the link above to read the full story.
Had his attention to detail and research been as good as a top selling crime/thriller author, then his plan would have worked! What a thrilling newspaper story this was to read. Far more spectacular than the case of John Darwin and his canoe from Seaton Carew, Hartlepool.
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