Marilyn Hartman, 69, was arrested again after trying to sneak in on a flight for which she had not bought a ticket. She threw herself successfully 22 commercial flights for the past two decades and has just been arrested again for attempting to board a flight at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday, March 16th.
Hartman managed to escape from a residential unit where she was being monitored electronically, CNN reports. Staff immediately began trying to contact Hartman via the phone built into the monitoring device. When they got stuck in her location, she was heading in the direction of O’Hare’s Terminal 1. An alarm was sounded on her ankle bracelet and she was arrested shortly after.
Since then, Hartman has been returned to the Cook County Jail and is not allowed to post bonds.
But the real mystery here is Why Hartman kept all these planes and how, exactly, he did it. The answer to the first question, however, is a sad one.
Hartman suffers from an undiagnosed mental illness that frequently includes paranoia. In one case, she tried to sneak in on a flight to Hawaii because she thought she had cancer and that she had “I wanted to go to a warm place and die ” The Guardian reported. He had no cancer. Later, he felt that “I really wanted to leave the island. ”
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This article in The Guardian involved extensive interviews with Hartman himself, who claimed to be the victim of a large-scale conspiracy to harass her for the rest of her life.
“For 25 years, Barack Obama knew about my case and it all went wrong when the verdict was against me, but he chose not to do the right thing,” she said in an email. She said she experienced such severe fighting or running responses that she was essentially forced by those instincts. to get on a plane and try to get rid of the vast network of people dedicated to silencing it.
In terms of How managed to do that, things are more complicated. In many cases, she went through the same weapon screenings we all do through the TSA, but she managed to do so without any identification or boarding pass. He kept his head down, hid behind other passengers, and projected the image of a slightly confused but completely harmless older woman. It began with “diving under the velvet ropes, throwing himself in small groups, presenting other people’s boarding passes or simply answering “Yes’, when airport staff ask important questions such as: “Are you Maria Sandgren?” “If she was caught by airport workers, she was generally excluded, not arrested. The Guardian calls it “persistent.”
Hartman’s story is wild, but it’s also incredibly sad. This is a homeless place woman who obviously did not receive the kind of care that could transform his general mentality.