Faking your own death is never easy, believe us, we’ve tried. But apparently in our cases, the insurance money we’d collect didn’t even begin to cover the expenses of faking, so why bother? However, in the case of Marcus Shrenker, if you’ve got the coin to crash your own plane in order to fake your own death, what’s the harm in trying, right? Well apparently the harm is four years in the slammer, plus funeral costs …
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Update: how to fake your own death
See if you can figure out where Marcus Schrenker’s false demise went wrong.
Step 1: Take off in a small plane and head to Florida. (Good.)
Step 2: Make a distress call and parachute out of the plane, letting it drift and eventually crash into a Northern Florida swamp. (Great … )
Step 3: Wearing flight goggles, talk to a police officer, saying you were in “a canoe accident.” (What?)
Step 4: Get a ride from that officer to a local hotel. Check into it using a fake name. (OK, that’s … an improvement from Step 3.)
Step 5: Pay for the room in cash, disguise yourself in a black toboggan cap and run for the woods. (Sounds dangerous … )
Step 6: Become the subject of a manhunt because military aircraft tracked your plane before it crashed and noticed you left the door open mid-flight and the cockpit was empty. (D’oh!)
If Marcus didn’t read our How To on faking your own death, he’ll probably wish he had. What did we say in step 3? Always burn a substitute body.