Jack Laurence

It is very early in the morning.

This will be interesting.

Not going back now.

Maybe I should have got myself a VPN before I did this.

My name's Jack Lawrence.

Welcome to Wanted.

Now, when you think of the FBI's most wanted list, you think of hardened criminals, drug lords like Pablo Escobar.

Serial killers like Ted Bundy.

And, of course, the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.

When I think of the FBI and Interpol's most wanted list, I certainly don't think...

of a 48-year-old former high-level Microsoft employee.

The story of Chad Howe is one that sounds like it's been ripped straight off the pages of a Hollywood script.

International travel, Bulgarian prisons, kidnap attempts, the FBI and Interpol.

But this isn't a movie.

This is a real-life nightmare for a man who's on borrowed time.

So what we can do as well is, we don't have to do this all in one sitting.

To understand how Chad got to be a wanted man, we first need to start at the very beginning.

Chad grew up in a college town in Pennsylvania, and with a mother and father who both attended the local university, it meant that Chad had access to an impressive library.

But unlike most 10-year-olds, Chad wasn't hunting down the latest fiction novels or comic books.

No, Chad was fixated on the language of computers.