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how did you get caught well the short answer is I got caught because I have celiac disease and I have to eat a
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gluten-free diet the longer answer is that there were people who were tracking me who set up what they call a honeypot
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which was basically a place on Facebook that was about my disappearance it was supposedly reporting new clues about my
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disappearance and they did that knowing that I would be a person who would visit
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that and then they sorted through the people who had visited that and figured out which one was me under my new
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identity so then they had my new identity because every day I would go and say what new clues do they have and
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eventually they said ah this guy that shows up every day we think that's him they connected it to me so then it was a
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matter of taking that identity and tracing it to my actual location and the way they did that was through my IP
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address so my address on the internet that corresponds to my location which was New Orleans they were able to
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uncover that because I've gotten a little lazy about concealing it and then the last step was they need to
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physically find me in order to do that they enlisted the owners of a gluten-free pizzeria in New Orleans
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where I was knowing that I would probably either order from it or go eat at it and those people sort of fanned
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out looking for me and eventually they found me so it's knowing a little bit about you that you have to eat
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gluten-free and maybe you like pizza right and then waiting for you to slip up a little bit exactly did it they had
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my profile they knew the kinds of places that I not just like to go but needed to go a
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gluten-free pizzeria if I'm in a city I will absolutely hit the first gluten-free pizzeria because it's the
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only pizza that I can eat it was well known that I liked pizza and so that starting point plus some range of my
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location gave them enough even without it's not like they were calling in you know the sheriff to come look for me or
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send out a bunch of cops they were contacting restaurant owners and saying hey we'll split the money with you if
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you're able to find him here's his picture here's this picture photoshopped with no hair which I had shaved my head
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and using that they spotted me right away as soon as they saw me I was sunk