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How easy was it for Radovan Karadzic and John Darwin to disappear?

Last Modified: 23 Jul 2008
By: John Sparks

After the reappearance of Radovan Karadzic and John Darwin, John Sparks asks: how easy is it just to disappear?

One was missing for six years after faking his own death. The other evaded international justice for more than a decade.

Neither the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic nor the more ludicrous figure of John Darwin was exactly a master of disguise.

Armed with nothing more than fake beards, they openly wandered about their home towns - and didn't even shy away from cameras.

In this age of mass surveillance, how easy is it simply to vanish?