Financier Marcus Schrenker crashed his own plane to fake his death

23-Mar-09
By David M N James

Financier Marcus Schrenker a trained pilot is accused of crashing his plane to fake his own death. Investigators looking into the case say that the multi millionaire who is on record for riches and a good life crashed his own plane to fake his own death. It is strange how a man with all the money one would need would like to be dead while still alive.

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Michelle Shrenkker wife to Marcus Shrenker participated in a recent dateline expose about the issue. Michael, the millionaire was a financial advisor. He did portfolio management for affluent individuals. That is how his wife can only describe him. However, this rich man caused ripples at Cocktail Cove near Indianapolis, a very plush area with beautiful homes whereby his was the most beautiful and conspicuous.

He had a beautiful wife and great kids. He had planes, cars, motorcycles, and boats. He was rich and a symbol of what money represented. However, at one time, this multimillionaire told off his wife Michelle about a holiday ‘we can’t afford it’. It is way off for such a rich man not to afford a cheap holiday at Florida. His wife filed a divorce, and Marcus, then, was caught on camera flying high with a girlfriend.

Apparently, Marcus refused going to visit his sick parents to avoid a vacation with his family. He was caught on camera, through airport surveillance, flying to Key West with his girlfriend. However, on December 20th , Michelle was upstairs when her daughter told her that there was a cop at the door.

Marcus actually took off. He had suspicions that the law was closing in on him over his financial dealings. Marcus was selling properties without a license and the law had already gathered enough evidence to warrant seizing those properties. The money involved was amounting to millions. He tried to convince Michelle out of the divorce. His father died on January 4th. He attended the funeral but during the evening, he was talking business as usual.

According to Dateline NBC, On Jan. 9, Marcus was hit with a half-million dollar judgment in a federal lawsuit brought by an insurance company. He had been holding on to commissions that he should have returned to the insurer. He was growing weary and kept telling his wife that someone was yelling at him but never told away who it was.

On Jan. 10, Marcus drove to Alabama, using a trailer to drop off a red motorcycle. Then, quickly, back to Indianapolis, and then, on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 11, he filed a flight plan for Destin, Fla. That evening, airport security cameras caught Marcus’ pickup truck doing donuts on the snow covered tarmac. They brought his plane out, and in his high-powered, $1.9-million Piper Meridian. Florida was less than three hours away. It was 6:45 eastern time when he took off.

However, the traffic tower lost contact with him. They reached his wife and asked her about his cell phone number. After another hour of reckoning, the air force called her asking about who owned the plane. On the night of Sunday, Jan. 11, a high-performance, single-engine turboprop belonging to investment adviser Marcus Schrenker was en route from Anderson, Ind., to Destin, Fla. Marcus was at the controls.. Less than two hours into the flight, while the plane was somewhere over northern Ala., air traffic controllers received a distress call.

Finally, the plane crashed. Afterwards, the plane was found but no body was in it. According to the police, the plane crashed into a Florida swamp. Police say that this was the kind of a guy who could fake his death. An air force jet trailing the plane saw that the planes cockpit was open and one was inside. Marcus was alive. He didn’t not die. He abandoned a safe plane. He had a motor cycle stashed somewhere and he used to hitch to a motel.

Infact, police suppositions could be right since Marcus had already sent some kind of goodbye notes or emails. He wrote that he really did have a window implode in flight, said he lost consciousness. Said he still loved Michelle and how sorry he was for treating her so terribly. He also said, “I have embarrassed my family for the last time and by the time you read this, I’ll be gone.” He sliced his wrists and lost blood as he attempted to commit suicide. He was rescued.

A strong case was built against Marcus. He had even ripped of his own closest friends. Michelle Schrenker is left at the big house on the Cove with her three children. Along with all of Marcus’ assets, her assets have been frozen, too. Moreover, she says she is penniless. According to a Dateline interview, Marcus Schrenker is under mental evaluation at a federal facility in Florida. A judge will determine if he will stand trial on federal charges of crashing his plane intentionally and making a false distress call. He also faces charges back in Indiana for working as an investment adviser with an expired license, and for securities fraud.

Marcus said that the plane crash was an accident, that he did not try to fake his own death, and that “Michelle has never received any compensation, assets, indirectly or directly, from client funds. It was a story of from riches to rags.

One doctor in entire Rukum

ekantipur, 20-Mar-09
KRISHNA PRASAD GAUTAM

Primary health centers at Taksera and Kotjahari VDCs of remote Rukum district are without doctors since past 13 years.

In the absence of doctors, people from rural areas of Rukum are compelled to visit the district headquarters or other neighboring districts to receive health care. “As there is no doctor here, we are compelled to go to the district headquarters even for minor treatment,” said Raju BK of Kotjahari VDC-5.

The District Hospital too is heavily understaffed. The hospital has only one doctor, who also happens to be the only doctor in the entire district. There are four posts for doctors in Rukum, but the district has only one doctor at present.

“I've been handling administrative work as well as the health department of the hospital,” said Dr. Binod Kumar Giri.

Another doctor assigned to the District Hospital left Rukum after his two-year term ended last month, but the government is yet to fill up the vacant post. Since the establishment of the District Hospital, it has not seen a lab technician or a radiographer. In the absence of radiographer, hospital peon Amar Khadka has been conducting X-ray examinations for the past 10 years.

Dr. Giri said that the health care system in entire Rukum is in bad shape as there is a huge shortfall of staff from the hospital at the center down to health posts in the villages.

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'Frog marriage' to please rain god in Nepal

PTI, 18-Mar-09

Some Nepalese farmers have found a novel way to please rain god who has been shying for long by arranging 'frog marriage' to seek their blessings, as the 'croak' of the amphibians mark the arrival of the monsoon.

Suffering from lack of rain for more than eight months farmers of central Nepal have arranged frogs' marriage.

The residents of Gairi village in Dolakha district, 140 km east of Kathmandu, conducted marriage ceremony of frogs as per Hindu rituals amidst hundreds of onlookers.

The locals brought a groom frog from Siple stream while the bride was brought to the ceremony from Chukepani stream, according to Kathmandu Post.

The two amphibians couple were later married in the ceremony held on a plate at local Nageshwori Kalikasthan temple as prayers shouted to congratulate them.

To perform the wedding rituals, the locals had invited seven priests on the occasion. Each family of the village contributed Rs 20 in order to organise the wedding feast.

One of the locals recalled that they witnessed rainfall after performing similar rituals five years back. After the hours of ceremony the newly wed couple were let go in a nearby stream, with the hope that they might communicate to the rain god about the locals' plight due to the drought.

Shortly after the rituals ended there was a strong gale followed by a brief drizzle, according to a local woman. However, there was not sufficient rain so that the worry of the local farmers is overcome.

China's last eunuch spills sex secrets

Reuters, 16-Mar-09
By Emma Graham-Harrison

Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.

China's last eunuch was tormented and impoverished in youth, punished in revolutionary China for his role as the "Emperor's slave" but finally feted and valued, largely for outlasting his peers to become a unique relic, a piece of "living history."

He had stories of the tortuous rituals of the Forbidden City, Emperor Pu Yi's last moments there and the troubled puppet court run by the Japanese during the 1930s. He escaped back to the heart of a civil war, became a Communist official and then a target of radical leftists before being finally left in peace.

This turbulent life has been recorded in the "The Last Eunuch of China" by amateur historian Jia Yinghua, who over years of friendship drew out of Sun the secrets that were too painful or intimate to spill to prying journalists or state archivists.

He died in 1996, in an old temple that had become his home, and his biography was finally published in English this year.

It unveils formerly taboo subjects like the sex life of eunuchs and the emperor they served, the agonizing castrations often done at home and also often lethal, and the incontinence and shame that came with the promise of great power.

"He was conflicted over whether to tell the secrets of the emperor," said Jia, adding that Sun preserved a loyalty to the old system because he had dedicated so much of his life to it.

"I was the only person he trusted. He did not even confide in his family, after they threw away his 'treasure,'" Jia added, using traditional eunuchs' slang for their preserved genitals.

They were discarded during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when having anything from the "old society" could put lives at risk.

"He only cried about two things; when telling me about the castration and about the loss of his 'treasure'," said Jia, who works as an energy bureaucrat, but devotes all his spare time to chronicling the dying days of Imperial China after a childhood enthralled by the eunuchs and princes who were his neighbors.

STERILITY AND POWER

Over years of painstaking research, he has gleaned arcane details about every aspect of palace life, along with secrets about the emperor's sexuality and cruelty that would look at home on the front page of tabloid newspapers.

For centuries in China, the only men from outside the imperial family who were allowed into the Forbidden City's private quarters were castrated ones. They effectively swapped their reproductive organs for a hope of exclusive access to the emperor that made some into rich and influential politicians.

Sun's impoverished family set him on this painful, risky path in hopes that he might one day be able to crush a bullying village landlord who stole their fields and burned their house.

His desperate father performed the castration on the bed of their mud-walled home, with no anesthetic and only oil-soaked paper as a bandage. A goose quill was inserted in Sun's urethra to prevent it getting blocked as the wound healed.

He was unconscious for three days and could barely move for two months. When he finally rose from his bed, history played the first of a series of cruel tricks on him -- he discovered the emperor he hoped to serve had abdicated several weeks earlier.

"He had a very tragic life. He had thought it was worthwhile for his father, but the sacrifice was in vain," Jia said, in a house stacked with old books, newspapers and photos.

"He was very smart and shrewd. If the empire had not fallen there is a high chance he would have become powerful," Jia added.

The young ex-emperor was eventually allowed to stay in the palace and Sun had risen to become an attendant to the empress when the imperial family were unceremoniously booted out of the Forbidden City, ending centuries of tradition and Sun's dreams.

"He was castrated, then the emperor abdicated. He made it into the Forbidden City then Pu Yi was evicted. He followed him north and then the puppet regime collapsed. He felt life had played a joke at his expense," Jia said.

Many eunuchs fled with palace treasures, but Sun took a crop of memories and a nose for political survival that turned out to be better tools for surviving years of civil war and ideological turbulence that followed.

"He never became rich, he never became powerful, but he became very rich in experience and secrets," Jia said.

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