Some of you are thinking you will never return home and believe that to be fact. However, even the most hardcore of disappeared persons sometime yearn to return to the nest.
Meet Mr. Biggs, not a moniker I prescribed but Ronald Arthur "Ronnie" Biggs who was part of the great train robbery in the UK. After the robbery in 1963, one of the crew was supposed to burn down a farmhouse and destroy the evidence. There was no flame lit and Scotland Yard found Mr. Biggs fingerprint on a ketchup bottle. That is what I call the fluke factor. It is the thing you never expect, the thing that delivers you to the man.
While Mr. Biggs sat in the big house facing thirty long at Her Majesties finest hotel he escaped and became the focus of a worldwide manhunt. He bought a facelift in Paris and made off to the land of kangaroos with his wife and children. He stayed there a few years but the heat came down and Ronnie Biggs fled to Brazil.
In Brazil, Mr. Biggs lived a colorful life and became somewhat of a local celebrity. Then in 1981, a group of ex-British soldiers out for a reward kidnapped him. They took him on a boat, sailed the seas and broke down in Barbados. The police in Barbados rescued them but it turned out that Barbados had no extradition treaty with the UK and allowed Mr. Biggs to return to Brazil.
Eventually the UK and Brazil created an extradition treaty and they wanted Mr. Biggs. The Brazilian government said no, no, no and allowed Mr. Biggs to remain in Brazil.
Thirty something years after the great train robbery Mr. Biggs voluntarily returned to the UK and went to prison. His release from prison came two days before his 80th birthday. Mr. Biggs died in 2013.
Many speculated that Mr. Biggs surrendered himself to the UK for much needed medical services that were not available in Brazil. Mr. Biggs son suggested that his father wanted to walk into a pub as an Englishman one more time and buy a pint. Mr. Biggs spent a life on the run only to end up in the place he desperately avoided. Do not read solely about the tools of disappearing but read about the lives of others who have disappeared.