(CNN) — An Indiana financial manager who apparently tried to fake his death by crashing his airplane left on a motorcycle he had stashed in his parachute landing zone, authorities said Tuesday.
Marcus Schrenker exited his small plane before it crashed, and investigators are looking for him, police say.
Marcus Schrenker fled Harpersville, Alabama, on a red motorcycle he kept at a storage unit leased under an assumed name, officials said.
Schrenker told the leasing agent at the storage facility that he would be back for the motorcycle Monday, the U.S. Marshals Office said.
The motorcycle — a 2008 Yamaha street bike with saddlebags — was brought to the storage unit by someone in a brown pickup and trailer, the Marshals Office said.
When authorities searched the unit late Monday night, the motorcycle was gone, and some damp clothes had been left on the floor, the Marshals Office said.
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"It’s gone. He’s gone," Harpersville Police Chief David Latimer told the Pensacola, Florida, News Journal.
Authorities in several states were looking for Schrenker, who was last reported seen Sunday night at a hotel in Harpersville, Alabama, south of Birmingham, after he told police in a nearby town that he had been in a canoeing accident.
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Schrenker allowed his plane to crash into a Florida swamp near a high-end neighborhood, authorities said.
"When I heard there was a plane crash, my first reaction was, this had to be staged," Tom Britt, a friend in Indiana, told CNN affiliate WRTV. "[My] initial reaction was, ‘I bet he wasn’t in it.’ That turned out to be correct. My second reaction was, he’s trying to escape the pressure that was compounding on him."
Britt said he received an e-mail Monday from someone who identified himself as Schrenker. The message said it was all a misunderstanding.
Britt described the e-mail he received at 7:18 p.m. Monday as long and personal.
"He had been reading CNN and AtGeist.com [Britt’s Web site] and was disturbed," Britt said. "He wanted to set the record straight."
Britt said Schrenker claimed
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