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Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later | Aeon Videos

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Summary
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69% Informative

Bennie Wint was addicted to drugs, owing money to the wrong people, with few real friends, and in what he considered to be an unhappy relationship with his fiancée.

In 1989 he fled his life in South Carolina during a powerful tropical storm, relocated to Alabama , and assumed a new name leaving authorities to believe that he had drowned.

Wint provides a first -person account of how his true identity would be discovered in 2009 , making the national news.

VR Score

55

Informative language

50

Neutral language

18

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

86

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

Source diversity

1

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