Did Nancy Drew wear a hat? Well, put on something that makes you feel sleuth-y:
Wired
magazine reporter Evan Ratliff is on the lam-and
Wired
is
offering $5000
for anyone who can find him.
The contest accompanies
Ratliff’s piece in the magazine’s September issue about Matthew Alan Sheppard
, an Arkansas man who tried to fake his own death. In the article, Ratliff notes that our always-on, always-connected lives makes it much harder to truly disappear. “It’s almost easier to steal an identity today than to shed your own,” he writes. (Authorities sensed something fishy with the Sheppard case when they noted that his BlackBerry had been used-after he supposedly drowned.)