marcus schrenker

Marcus Schrenker is a financial manager from Indianapolis, Indiana.[1]

On January 12, 2009, he apparently made a false distress call from his private plane, set the plane on autopilot, and parachuted out of it, landing somewhere in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The wreckage of the plane was found north of Milton, Florida. After safely parachuting to the ground, Schrenker apparently contacted local police and claimed to have been in a canoeing accident. Police were reportedly skeptical of the story, but did not link Schrenker to the crash, and brought him to a local motel. Schrenker is believed to have checked into the motel under a false name. He disappeared soon afterwards. Recent reports indicate that he retrieved a red Yamaha motorcycle with saddlebags that he had stashed in a storage facility several days earlier.

Schrenker is under investigation by the Indiana Securities Division for possible securities fraud.[2] On January 9, he lost $533,500 in a federal court ruling in Maryland against one of his companies and is in the midst of divorce proceedings. There is speculation that these could have motivated what appears to have been an effort to fake an accident and his own death. [3] [4]

On January 13, 2009, Gadsden County, Florida officials said they had captured Schrenker.[5]

References ^ "Judge freezes assets of pilot whose plane crashed without him", CNN (2009-01-13). Retrieved on 13 January 2009. ^ "Investors Complained About Missing Ind. Pilot", Associated Press via Yahoo News, January 13, 2009 ^ [1] ^ [2] ^ "Parachuting Fugitive Captured in Florida", Associated Press via Yahoo News, January 13, 2009 This aircraft-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This crime-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Schrenker" Categories: Aircraft stubs | Crime stubs | Florida Hidden category: Current events as of January 2009