Chad Hauer

Now's the time to start thinking about escape.

Another plan did involve Chad hopping into a helicopter, being dropped in the water near a waiting ship.

However, the pilot came back with one glaring issue.

Yeah, we've got a missing person.

You're one guy shorter.

That idea's off the table.

Chad's passport is still being held by a very determined local Bulgarian police officer.

Chad has his suspicions that someone was offering this officer incentives to hold on to it.

until one day he would get a call to tell him he needs to go and he needs to go now.

He wastes no time and races to the location in which the district attorney has told him he has a brief window in which to get his passport and get out of the country, to which he does.

You might be sitting there thinking the same as me.

All this over a custody dispute.

Why on earth is the US government and its agencies wasting so much time and resources over this?

It just doesn't make sense.

So we're going to take a short break.

And when we come back, if you thought this crazy story couldn't get any more insane, well, get ready to come further down the rabbit hole.

Chad Howe is a wanted man.

He's on the FBI's wanted list and has an active Interpol red notice against his name, all for the apparent abduction of his son, who I might add is now a grown man who has appeared on many US television shows to do interviews saying that he has in no way been kidnapped.

Not only that, but he has been to the US embassy in Barbados more than once to renew his passport.

So why on earth have the U.S.