Our roving boy has been found - here's the background, or skip to the end if you know it already:
As the ripples from Bernie Madoff's scam become a tsunami washing over global investors and carrying away their money, as the body of a European financier is removed from his Manhattan office, here's a little slice of reality from the BBC. They're watching.
38 year old Marcus Schrenker is missing after his plane crashed. It appears he did it to fake his own death.
Schrenker's financial management companies are in trouble. They're under investigation and are said to owe half a million dollars to an insurance company.
He took off in a single engine plane from a small Indiana airport this past weekend, bound for Florida. He was alone. Somewhere over Alabama, he made a distress call. His windshield, he said, had imploded and he was bleeding.
The rescue effort began - apparently a little more quickly than Mr. Schrenker anticipated. Military planes intercepted his little Piper and found it on autopilot, with the door hanging open. No pilot.
It soon crashed into an Alabama swamp, near a neighborhood. Police say there was no blood, no pilot, and no smashed windshield.
But our hero isn't totally missing - a man matching his description checked into an Alabama motel and explained his appearance as the result of a canoeing accident. He later was seen running off into the woods.
Do they have alligators in Alabama?
Apparently if they do, he dodged them, too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7829868.stm
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