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Crime Salad

The Ghost Plane: The Marcus Schrenker Escape

Crime Salad

BLACKCAT | Realm

True Crime

4.43.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How far would you go to escape the consequences of your own greed? What happens when a high-flying millionaire's house of cards finally begins to collapse? He vanishes into thin air. Marcus Schrenker had it all: private planes, luxury sports cars, and a massive French chateau. As a trusted financial advisor, he carved out a highly exclusive niche catering to the "cream of the crop," managing the retirement portfolios of commercial Delta Air Lines pilots. But behind the facade of luxury, Schrenker was secretly draining their life savings through deceptive financial schemes and a completely fabricated foreign currency fund. Check out this action-packed episode hosted by Ashley and Ricky of Crime Salad.  SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Quince: Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to Quince.com/crimesalad for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too.  OneSkin: For a limited time, try OneSkin with 15% off using code CRIMESALAD at oneskin.co/CRIMESALAD  Listen & Subscribe: If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review! It helps new listeners find the show. Follow us on Instagram: crimesaladpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right team, fuddling, Nan will come in and attack hard for the pizza.

0:21.7

Kev, if you intercept with a bowl of crisps, we can defend that until everyone turns up. Now that's big summer energy. As are the incredible prices at ASDA. Get ready for the match with a selection of frozen restaurante pizzas, whether you're a pepperoni lover or just straight up mozzarella. Now just £ pound each. That's ASDA price.

0:22.8

Selected stores online,

0:23.7

subject to availability,

0:25.8

pizzas 320 to 335 grams,

0:26.8

ends 24th of June.

0:28.4

Excludes ASDA Express and small stores.

0:56.0

See ASDA.com slash small stores. It's the evening of Sunday, January 11, 2009, and the pitch black sky over Alabama is eerily quiet.

1:01.3

High above the clouds, a private six-passenger jet is cruising steadily.

1:08.6

But suddenly, the silence is shattered by a frantic, terrifying distress call to the Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center.

1:11.0

The pilot?

1:11.9

A 38-year-old man named Marcus Schrenker.

1:15.1

He radios in absolute panic.

1:17.7

He screams over the channel that his windshield has just completely shattered.

1:22.2

He tells the controllers that his cockpit is rapidly depressurizing,

1:26.6

and he explicitly says that he's bleeding profusely

1:29.8

from his face. A man desperate in his final moments, losing consciousness right in the sky,

1:37.5

and then the radio cuts to dead static.

1:44.4

Honestly, what a terrifying thing to hear.

1:47.5

But I'm curious about the altitude of the plane.

1:50.1

I mean, are we talking 30,000 feet or like a thousand feet?

1:54.6

Because if a windshield implodes at a high altitude, I mean, that pressure change alone,

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