If that were the case then were the money go? He ran out of cash pretty quick in that small Colorado town and the only extravagant purchase in the story was a $16k light aircraft.

I have to wonder how much he went "Why did I spend almost two decades looking over my shoulder for a mere 3 year jail term?"

I also have to wonder just how much he hated the fake ID guy after the millionth It joke.

> More probable is the idea that he was the one who kept the full 1.6 million.

The last quote in the article makes me think that...

As a someone in my late 20s I could sort of see it BUT not with a family and child. Seems insane. If you were broke and unmarried I could see it being enticing. Also, he potentially thought he would make more? If it was a 1.25M he could have thought he would have received more or that it was actually a smaller haul than imagined/