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by dylan604 1249 days ago
are you suggesting it would be better to be on the lamb in remote parts right under the noses of the gov't attempting to be avoided? how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf and these were guys that loved the idea of living in the wilderness. how well do you think little ms pampered would make in a cabin in the woods?
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She only had to make the uncomfortable car trip once. From San Francisco to Mexico City.

There are thousands of metropolis outside the US, hundreds in Latin America and about 20 just South of the US border in Mexico.

Persons of interest who are not Osama Bin Laden or Escobar or Chapo Guzman they are only captured because they use airports like they were regular civilians

how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf

Actually really well. Kaczyinski basically got turned in by his brother and Eric Rudolph hid for 5 years in the wilderness living off the land occasionally scavenging in dumpsters for leftovers (which is how he eventually got arrested by a rookie cop who thought he was a burglar). Rudolph subsequently wrote a book describing his extended hideout.

I doubt la Holmes would last long in this kind of life, but unlike those two she had access to huge amounts of money and the capability to stash someI think she could have pulled it off easily; she would be at greater risk from encountering a professional criminal that would pick up on her furtiveness.

> how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf and these were guys that loved the idea of living in the wilderness.

Kaczynski lived in the woods for like 2 full decades, right? I'm not sure I get the point.

Where is Kaczynski now? Whether you run to a far off country living a decent maybe modest life before ultimately getting caught vs living like it's the 1800s in not very comfy lifestyle before getting caught, you still got caught. Do you really think ms iAmSomebodySpecial is going to live like the unibomber for 20 years?

so the point is why would someone recommend that a poshSpice type of person live like a mountain man? hell, even Heisenberg couldn't live in the woods by himself before escaping back to his home to his eventual capture.

Again these people are like Osama Bin Laden, Escobar or Chapo. Every cop in the US wanted to be the person capturing them, every administrator pleaded their superiors for resources to go after them, hell people became cops dreaming of making such arrest.

Nobody dreams of chasing a girl around the globe because she convinced some Private Equity Funds and Family Offices to finance a moonshot health bet and then couldn't face the reality that the bet would never convert and so she started lying.

The OneCoin girl for example, if she never sets foot in an airport and has cut ties with family and friends, they'll never get her.

Ted was never meaningfully on the run. The place they found him was the same place with his name on it in the county assessor's office.
Kaczynski wasn't on the run and he had clear title to his property as I understand it. You could look up where he was in the property records.

He didn't get not captured because no one knew where Ted was. It's because they didn't know Ted was the guy doing the bad stuff.