The Indiana pilot who faked a distress call and bailed out of a plane over Alabama, slashed his wrist before being taken into custody at a campground outside of Chattahoochee, Fla.
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Marcus Schrenker, 38, was discovered in a tent around 8:30 p.m. EST at the campground, said Dominic Guadagnoli, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshal’s Office.
Schrenker “lost a great deal of blood from a deep cut to one of his wrists,” said a news release from the U.S. Marshal’s service.
Missing pilot captured [PNJ.com]
Those of you who voted 6-12 hours… win!
wat a loser cant even kill himself properly
lets not jump to conclusions about those cuts… maybe camp crystal lake?
Damn, EP, go to sleep why don’t ya?
@1
Ha, such sympathy and compassion!
Btw, I don’t like tootin’ my own horn, but I called it, he’s pleading insanity, case closed.
Gawd…what a wreck! This story had everything.
@4 You mean temporary insanity
“I was depressed bc my wife left me and blah blah blah, but I’m fine now”
@6
Depending on his lawyer, he’s got a much better case (as far as the jury is concerned) pleading insanity than Madoff, although he’s not yet at Erget-loving Israel territory
@6
Seems to me like too much advance planning (albeit inept) for a temporary insanity plea.
Regardless, the guy’s either ruined forever or has a C-list career on the reality etc. circuit.
Agreed that egret love would’ve paved the way to everlasting freedom. When in doubt, don’t shoot ‘em; fuck ‘em. Or buy a faster motorcycle, or whatevs. Got nothin’.
Too long, didn’t read. Will wait for movie.
Domino’s pizza, holla! I love this fucking site.
@11
So that was the prize? If so, and if DB delivers overseas, I might actually vote next time.
Dr. Kissinger — Homerun!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/the_chance_for_a_new_world_ord.html
Down, not across.
–CS
As a skydiver who jumpes in Crosskeys (NJ), I’m mostly angry he sullied our good profession; and also ruined a pretty nice plane.
Burn the witch!
Oh yeah, I found his YouTube stache:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mschrenker10
Injuries were listed as non life threatening and superficial. Seems it was all for ‘teh drama’. He’ll get no sympathy in this economy.
Not that this guppy deserves a verb, but…
To Schrenker:
To epically f-up a hedge fund, insurance company and your marriage, fail at faking your own death by ham-handedly crashing your Piper, then actually try to commit suicide when caught, and fail at that, too.
Wow. A true American original, this guy.
Very Nice article, digg it!
http://www.actfind.com
18, Digg this:
..[snip]…
Paris Hilton: “Billions and billions served.” (McDonald’s)
Scarlett Johansson: “The best a man can get.” (Gillette)
Heather Mills: “One leg at a time.” (Dockers)
..[snip]..
http://systemicallyimportant.blogspot.com/2009/01/company-mottos.html
Or just check out the hot picture of Scarlett…
Was it less than 48 hours? If so I won yesterdays poll! WooHoo!
Lacking in egrets didn’t read
Why not just get on an airplane to Brazil and take your chances there? Why go thru this entire process when you gotta know it isnt going to work?
Wasn’t he supposed to be on his way to Mexico? And why are they always caught in a campground in Florida?
it took then feds 30 years to catch Madoff – that was after her turned himself in, I thought for sure 24-48 hours would be the winning category….
it took then feds 30 years to catch Madoff – that was after he turned himself in, I thought for sure 24-48 hours would be the winning category….
Looks like the ‘CFO’ is setting up her defense (from fox59.com):
Schrenker’s wife released a statement late Tuesday afternoon, through her attorney Mary Schmid:
I represent Michelle Schrenker. Michelle first contacted me this past summer to discuss a divorce this past summer because her husband was having an affair. At the time, she wanted to work on reconciling with her husband. However, he continued his affair. and, as a result, on December 30th 2008, she filed a petition for dissolution of her marriage from Marcus Schrenker.
Her decision to file for divorce was based on her husband’s infidelity and in no way was based on the investment fraud of which he is accused. In fact, Michelle first learned of the allegations against him when, on December 31st 2008, the police and investigators came to her door to search her home.
To Michelle’s dismay, at the time her home was being searched, Marcus was in Florida with his girlfriend.
Clearly, Michelle and her three young children are victim’s of this man’s deceitfulness as well. She is not guilty of anything other than trusting her husband of 13 years. Everyone should remember that Michelle and her children are suffering through a terrible time right now.
Through no fault of their own, they are having to deal with the repercussion’s of this man’s behavior and will be doing so for a long time to come.
Pending the medical report, I applaud his attempt at closure. It is time for more of these jokers to do the honorable thing and check out. The more the merrier…
How do you do all this with 3 small children? This is like the definition of selfish, self-involved, etc. Kids will be in therapy for years.
@27 Totally agree
The saddest part of this saga; no headstone is being ordered.
Conveniently enough, the Florida state asylum is also located in Chattahoochee.
Not a Ponzi: just a crook: (from AP)
Authorities in Indiana have been investigating Schrenker’s businesses on allegations that he sold clients annuities and charged them exorbitant fees they weren’t aware they would face.
State Insurance Commissioner Jim Atterholt said Schrenker would close the investors out of one annuity and move them to another while charging them especially high “surrender charges” – in one case costing a retired couple $135,000 of their original $900,000 investment.
@29: I think having to go through the justice system for years, and serve jail time at age 38, is far, far more satisfying to investors than the headstone.
Why hasn’t the “CFO” been arrested on fraud charges as well? Afterall, if she was “doing the taxes, ordering technology’…etc., seems like she would know something. Am I to believe she was an incompentent CFO?!?! Never.
@31
Looks similar to Tontine’s fee structure, at least Schrenker’s clients retained more then 10% of their capital.
This just in – Alabama Police reportedly pulled Schrenker over on his bike at 5:20pm yesterday after spotting the flapping parachute off the back of the bike. Officer Joe “Big Bubba” Cowtrain questioned Schrenker who gave them the alias “Captain Armstrong”. Shrenker stated he was the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia Mission rushing back to Cape Canaveral after some in-flight technical issues – i.e., “premature chute deployment”. Schrenker was released and received a police escort to the Florida border. Officer Cowtrain sticks to his decision to release Shrenker but in hindsight admits he may have been influenced by his love for his favorite TV show – “Lost in Space”.
New photos, including the receipt for the $35 hotel room.
http://www2.indystar.com/autofocus/galleries/show/4895/7
I love “Big Bubba” jokes.
@34: Great comment
@35: FAIL
@35 Staggeringly unfunny. Go back to watching the Daily Show.
I knew his wife intimately.
VICTIM’S? REPERCUSSION’S?
This is an attorney’s press release? Are you fucking kidding me?
“Schrenker’s wife released a statement late Tuesday afternoon, through her attorney Mary Schmid:
I represent Michelle Schrenker. Michelle first contacted me this past summer to discuss a divorce this past summer because her husband was having an affair. At the time, she wanted to work on reconciling with her husband. However, he continued his affair. and, as a result, on December 30th 2008, she filed a petition for dissolution of her marriage from Marcus Schrenker.
Her decision to file for divorce was based on her husband’s infidelity and in no way was based on the investment fraud of which he is accused. In fact, Michelle first learned of the allegations against him when, on December 31st 2008, the police and investigators came to her door to search her home.
To Michelle’s dismay, at the time her home was being searched, Marcus was in Florida with his girlfriend.
Clearly, Michelle and her three young children are victim’s of this man’s deceitfulness as well. She is not guilty of anything other than trusting her husband of 13 years. Everyone should remember that Michelle and her children are suffering through a terrible time right now.
Through no fault of their own, they are having to deal with the repercussion’s of this man’s behavior and will be doing so for a long time to come.”
DUMBFELLA! This dickweed couldn’t even stage his disappearance or suicide attempt properly….clearly he is playing the mentally incapacitated card. He’ll walk and crime pays yet again.
@27 & 29. I’m with you. What ever happened to good old defenestration?
What a sordid mess you could have spared us Schrenker. That’s what tall buildings and windows are for.
Wondering if Florida can press charges for nearly killing people by ditching his plane…
@44: They are, they already said they were. It is not FL, it is a federal crime.
Schrenker’s kinda cute. Too bad Bubba will be making him AND Bernie do his daily tasks.
Good luck! Don’t forget the ass-tringent fellas! (mintyass.com)….
-mrp
@45
I wonder whether it carries the sam penatlties as flying a plane into a build. Jets were scrambled …
Hopefully it’s Supermax for pretty boy. He could escape Bubba if that’s where he’s heading.
@47
In English:
I wonder whether it carries the same penalties as flying a plane into a building. Jets were scrambled …
Hopefully it’s Supermax for pretty boy. He could escape Bubba if that’s where he’s heading.
My first thought was to call bullshit on the “attorney’s press release”. It reads like it was written in purple ink with hearts dotting the I’s.
It does exist. Here is the link: http://www.fox59.com/pages/landing_local_news/?Pilot-wanted-for-fraud-found-alive-in-Fl=1&blockID=182961&feedID=1295
Amazing. Barbie will not be out rednecked by her husband! Understand?
I know the Schrenkers and I can say with confidence that Marcus is a sociopath and a pathological liar. And the kids, they were raised by a nanny. Those poor, ignored kids. Michelle’s main job was shopping and writing checks for Marc’s business. He always had a smug attitude and now he’ll be middle class for the rest of his life. That’s fine for most people, but it will be like hell for him and Michelle. They were the most wasteful people I have ever met.
Bubba is like Wideclops. There’s no escape.
-mrp
@50 Middle class? She’ll be turning tricks, he’ll be turning tricks (for free, in prison), and the kids will probably grow up to be drug addicts unless they have some family who will take care of them.
@52
And we’ll all be paying towards keeping the tard on earth.
I bet he’s a conservative.
@1 it’s down the highway, not across the street
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide
@54 WRONG. They were Dems. Last time I saw Michelle, she was wearing a trendy Obama shirt. She also once told me how much she though Bush was an idiot.
@54 WRONG. They were Dems. Last time I saw Michelle, she was wearing a trendy Obama shirt. She also once told me how much she though Bush was an idiot.
@54 WRONG. They were Dems. Last time I saw Michelle, she was wearing a trendy Obama shirt. She also once told me how much she though Bush was an idiot.
It always amazes me, when these broads go on TV, with their attorneys, and spew such horse puckey. Even my eleven year old son burst out laughing, to my surprise and says, “Does she think a Jury will buy that crap ?” Of course, I had to punish him for saying “crap” in front of his mother and sisters. No water polo ttoday.
It always amazes me, when these broads go on TV, with their attorneys, and spew such horse puckey. Even my eleven year old son burst out laughing, to my surprise and says, “Does she think a Jury will buy that crap ?” Of course, I had to punish him for saying “crap” in front of his mother and sisters. No water polo today.
It always amazes me, when these broads go on TV, with their attorneys, and spew such horse puckey. Even my eleven year old son burst out laughing, to my surprise and says, “Does she think a Jury will buy that crap ?” Of course, I had to punish him for saying “crap” in front of his mother and sisters. No water polo today.
It always amazes me, when these broads go on TV, with their attorneys, and spew such horse puckey. Even my eleven year old son burst out laughing, to my surprise and says, “Does she think a Jury will buy that crap ?” Of course, I had to punish him for saying “crap” in front of his mother and sisters. No water polo today.
sorry, bad mouse for the aforementioned repeating messages.