Jonathan Hirsch
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He uses his cash and goes by a different name.
They don't know this at the time.
Before he abandoned his dad, he had done some planning for this life.
Well, he's good at that.
He is.
And that's how Bart became somebody new, who went by the name of Rudy Rios.
He had basically convinced a friend of his to let him steal his identity for a price.
It was a coworker.
The coworker agreed.
So he picks up work at a furniture shop and charms the neighbors with stories about being wounded in combat, which is how he explained his bullet wound.
He told me his name was Rudy.
For nearly a year, he's living in this town.
He's seen as this like charismatic new American.
And the Texas authorities are searching high and low for Bart Whitaker.
So for nearly a year, he's living this life in a Mexican town.
He's like the charismatic new American.
And authorities are out there looking for Bart Whitaker.
Exactly.
So the story does have an ending.
They find him.