[dennisw]

On the lam for 20 years!!! I bet the only way he got caught, someone squealed.
He has plenty of money left. He was nabbed on a 56ft yacht.

[ClearCase_guy]

A guy rapes a woman on a yacht off Rhode Island.
He is found on a yacht off New York.

He was missing for 20 years.

How hard were they looking???

[SunkenCiv]

Hiding out in a 56-foot-long sailboat? No wonder he was hard to find...

[dfwgator]

Fischer, 70, had been on the lam since 2005 when he fled Rhode Island during his criminal trial in Newport for allegedly raping a woman on his yacht named the “Lion King,” two years earlier.

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Hakuna Matata!

[piasa]

New York does seem like another country most of the time.

[Hyman Roth]

Off topic. I have a friend that has a hand made wooden boat. It’s name. Morning Wood.

[ComputerGuy]

Hiding in plain sight.

[logi_cal869]

“I have therefore decided not to take the risk and to leave the US and enjoy life in another country where I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life.”

Clearly not. /s

[Hot Tabasco]

A good friend's sister was the subject of one of the Unsolved Mysteries episodes.

She was murdered and found in the Chesapeake Bay back in 1993. Because of the episode, the murderer was found in a Florida prison where he had admitted to a cell mate that he was the one who killed her.

[Svartalfiar]

“Although I believe my trial has gone very well, and expect to be acquitted and dismissed, the small chance of losing could carry extremely and unacceptably harsh penalties,” Fischer wrote in the email

So... How did the trial go?