When people find themselves in a situation where there appears to be no out, or the road they face involves captivity they naturally want to run. It is human nature. If you are in a situation and have chosen to run the question will be, do you drop everything and run or do you fake your death. This is a tough decision to make.
Take Marcus “Fly Boy” Schrenker again. He designed what he believed to be a brilliant act of pseudocide. The time he spent taking his motorcycle to a storage facility, downing his plane, getting a ride to a motel and going to the campground was all- futile. He could have been on a plane to one of a dozen countries where he could have fallen off the grid. Marcus “Fly Boy” Schrenker should have disappeared and not faked his death.
Sometimes it is more prudent to walk away and leave it all. However, that is a decision only you can make and not an easy one at that. Disappearing is an art not a science and sometimes one needs to go with their gut.
If you are in a situation like Marcus “Fly Boy” Schrenker, I do believe it is best to just disappear and not fake your death. When you fake your death, you are not simplifying your exit plan but creating more obstacles to overcome.
Marcus “Fly Boy” Schrenker spun his wheels and they got him nowhere. Many of those who have faked their deaths created elaborate plans but all became unhinged because of stupid things.
Samuel Israel III parked his car on a bridge and wrote a suicide line on his dirty windshield. Aubrey 'Lee' Price another white-collar cheat sent a letter to his family that he planned to kill himself by jumping off a ferryboat. The strange part about Aubrey 'Lee' Price is he was off the radar for over a year but arrested back in Georgia. Hello? Aubrey “Lee” Price, you are a dumbass.
If you are wanted by the law, disappearing is all about getting out of Dodge and walking off into the sunset. There is no elaborate plan or any pomp and circumstance. By disappearing, you reduce the amount of law enforcement searching for you.
When I was a skip tracer hunting people down it was easy to review a person’s information, figure out what was a real lead, and what was a fake lead. It is difficult to explain how because it is somewhat of an innate process. I know that may sound hokey but it is true. A fair amount of law enforcement officers would probably admit that some of the leads they found and crimes they have solved came from a hunch or gut feeling.
So, if a criminal asked me is it better to disappear or fake their death I would say a thousand times over - DISAPPEAR.