Rocky Mountain Hi
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If she'd planned to escape to Canada, she could have stockpiled Canadian cash.Where I live you can boat across to Canada, pull up on shore and walk anywhere you like. Further east there are vast areas where you can just walk across a cornfield and be in Canada. Outside of major roads and other crossings it is largely unguarded on either side.
But I agree, I don't actually think that is an option. They would be in a new place where they would be spending US dollars for everything with no local connections or insight. Canada would be a good place to get caught fast.
I don't think they will venture all that far from where they started. There are tons of places to hide in the deep south where you almost never have to see another person again in your whole life. We will see how smart she is- she had a plan and she must have done some research. LE is right now trying to find the tell-tale research she must have done. If she hid that well it could be very difficult to find them. In one of the article it mentions the Secret Service being involved. That is cash related. There are tools they have to trace cash. The bank knows which bills were in your ATM machine and the secret service knows the serial numbers that show up if deposited by a merchant they pay.
The hopeful thing is that the reward is still low- that usually means LE is on the trail and really isn't seriously looking for the public's help.
I'm familiar with the islands off the coast of BC and WA State. It used to be, that you could boat anywhere, and people were on the honor system to register their presence. There usually was a booth at the dock, with a registration book, often unstaffed. And some of the bays in those islands had names like "Smuggler's Cove" and such: no docking facility, no nothing. Perhaps during Prohibition that was one route for bringing contraband into the US.
But I would assume, that after 9/11, those types of gateways to Canada were tightened up. It sounds like they weren't, from what you say. If that's the case, they could start a new life in a cabin on a sparsely-populated island, if she'd bought RE there. Or maybe in your area, there are old, abandoned farmhouses. Or she could have bought a live-aboard vessel of some sort: sail-powered or fuel-powered, and dock only for food from time to time. Still, they could be spotted eventually, by a sharp shop owner who watches the news regularly, plus they'd have the Coast Guard or Canadian equivalent to potentially deal with.
After exploring all these different scenarios that have come up online, they all add up to a highly restricted life on the lam. "Freedom" it's not. Though someone posted a case, where a prisoner and a warden's wife got by in such a life for 8-10 years before being caught. So I guess people risking this hope for the best.
Still, she should bear in mind, that his reason for wanting to get out is so he could track down an ex-gf and kill her (she contacted LE from her and her family's hiding place, when she heard he was out loose), and wreak god knows what other mayhem.
It sounds like she's not bearing any such thing in mind. She's been attached to this guy for two years. She's ignoring his fundamental character. Strange. Potentially fatal ignorance.