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July 06, 2005

How to disappear completely and never be found

The Globe and Mail reports that Karla Teale, the woman seeking anonymity from her former life as Karla Homolka through the peculiar tactic of granting a national television interview two hours after her release, has read a book on how to disappear. The book is rather grandly titled How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found: Planning a disappearance, arranging for new identification, finding work, establishing credit, pseudocide (creating the impression you're dead), and more.

For most, the thought of changing names and jobs, cutting all ties and escaping to a tropical paradise is just a tantalizing daydream. This book will help you translate your dreams into action, as thousands of others have! Contains practical advice on planning a disappearance, getting money and a foolproof ID, who will start looking for you and the methods they will use and how to cope in your new environment under your new identity.

Considering this Homolka publicity I would have imagined it would attract more than one satirical Amazon review.

I read it in one night. It was very imformative. I followed the instructions very carefully and hid myself. I was found the next day at 9AM by the feds. I am now serving twenty years in the pen. Thanks a lot Doug Richmond.

Not having read the book I am not certain if it offers anything more than Day of the Jackal* baptismal certificate tips, though I gather these were more than enough for Ahmed Rassam to generate a fictional identity as "Benni Noris". One note to the psychopath seeking anonymity: stay away from the Tim Horton's iced cappuccino. It is a dead give-away.

*"In the third cemetary he visited the Jackal found a gravestone to suit his purpose, that of Alexander Duggan who died at the age of two and a half years in 1931. Had he lived, the Duggan child would have been a few months older than the Jackal in July 1963�." - Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal, NY: Bantam, 1971, p. 78.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 6, 2005 10:06 PM

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