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Chapter 1: What is the story behind the TikTok fugitive?
Thank you.
Hello, legends. Jack Lawrence here. I am the host and creator of the show What I Survived. Firstly, I want to say a massive thank you to everyone for all your support of the brand new series. It has been truly overwhelming to see how well it's been received, all the lovely comments in regards to it. And I am working hard on season two for you. There are some incredible stories coming your way.
But in the meantime, for those of you who are new to my work, I wanted to introduce you to another series I created a couple of years ago called Wanted. Wanted tells the stories of men and women who currently are or who have been wanted by authorities. Men and women who were hunted across continents. Some of them surviving, others being caught and are still behind bars today.
It's a different kind of survival story. One about living on the run. For those of you who've been following my work for a while, you may have already heard this series. So thank you to you for your patience while I prepare the next season of What I Survived. For everybody else... Welcome to Wanted. Okay, so I've just quickly clicked on the microphone here in the studio.
I was just in here working on the show and I got tagged. in something on TikTok. Now this does happen from time to time. Straight away thought I need to hit record on this because the profile on this TikTok page is a wanted poster. It's wanted by the FBI, the TikTok fugitive. In mid-2022, I set out to start my own true crime podcast called One Minute Remaining.
It's a show where I speak with men and women who are incarcerated in the United States. This show allows these men and women to tell their stories and just how they ended up staring down the barrel of a life locked away inside a state facility. Part of having a show like this means that I get contacted on a regular basis about other stories people think need attention brought to them.
One day while I was working in my office on the show, I got a notification via TikTok. Someone had tagged me in a video. A video of a man claiming to be wanted by the FBI and Interpol. Alright, let's click on one of these videos. FBI fugitive found on Caribbean beach.
Why am I wanted? For kidnapping. But I didn't do it. I wasn't even in the country at the time and multiple extraditions from multiple countries have failed.
I'd spend the next few days and weeks going down a long rabbit hole of videos, news stories and articles about this man who had apparently kidnapped his son and taken him overseas. And the FBI and Interpol were after him.
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Chapter 2: Who is Chad and why is he wanted by the FBI?
At the height of his cartel business, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was smuggling a reported 15 tons of cocaine a day into the United States.
Serial killers like Ted Bundy.
Theodore Robert Bundy, you are charged, indictment, two counts burglary, two counts murder in the first degree. Three counts attempted murder in the first degree. My chance to talk to the press. I'll plead not guilty right now.
And, of course, the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
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.
But the thing is, you never know. In my case, you never know. It could be the FBI. They saw me on TikTok. They want to fuck with me. Because the shit they've done to me, I mean, the shit they bribed a police officer in Bulgaria after my extradition was denied, I mean, the shit they've done to me, I wouldn't put it past them.
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.
My medical condition, I get worn out about, I get worn out a little bit.
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Chapter 3: What led to Chad's international custody battle?
In a very violent way.
So, yeah. So even prior to becoming a wanted man, Chad's life was already a little different. Accomplishing many things early in life, Chad would also become a married man at a young age.
Long story short, there was this girl I knew from school who was a friend of mine who liked me, but I only wanted to be friends with. But She ended up going to a technical school who was friends with this other girl, and I met up with her, and I was after her.
And that didn't work out because she had a boyfriend, but they had this other girl who hung around around their group, and that was Vecna who I ended up getting married to. Yeah, I call her Vecna. Her real name is Nancy, but I call her Vecna from Stranger Things. Have you seen Stranger Things?
I have seen Stranger Things, absolutely. Okay, so you know Vecna. Anyways, I call her Vecna.
Okay.
So throughout this story, you will hear the names Nancy and Vector. Just so you know, they are the same person. So Chad and Nancy started dating and were very soon married at just 19. It would appear though, from the beginning, there may have been some warning signs that the marriage was not all that harmonious.
When Chad's new wife Nancy announces that she doesn't in fact wish to go on the honeymoon that Chad has booked.
So instead... So I went with my best man. I'm not joking.
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