Pushkin.

Just a quick heads up before we start, this episode contains a brief reference to suicide.

Previously, on Deep Cover.

He talked about the potential for being a Russian spy, going to various universities under cover.

It had so many interesting elements.

The more people that are looking for your suspect, the better chance you have of finding them.

I remember seeing my picture and it saying,

Esther Reed, and I was like, oh shit, like literally oh shit.

This isn't going to go away.

By the end of 2007, Esther Reed had been on the run for almost a year and a half.

During that time, she was being chased by a number of people, including the Secret Service,

the Police down in South Carolina, and a private investigator with a TV crew.

And so far, all of them had pretty much struck out.

And this left the federal prosecute around the case, a guy named Walt Wilkins,

feeling rather well frustrated.

I mean, we were chasing her around the country and we would look at each other and say,

how are we not finding this young girl who stole some identities?

But good grief, guys. We're the federal government here.

We got to be able to do that.

By this point, this young girl was now 29, by the way.

And elusive as she was, Walt Wilkins still felt confident that she could be found.

When you have the federal government looking for you, you make a mistake somewhere along the way.

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