Man facing $8.7M embezzlement case hid on Appalachian Trail

Monday, September 21, 2015

CINCINNATI -- He was known as "Bismarck," a genial, thick-bearded hiker who had become a familiar character along the Appalachian Trail over the last six years and a regular at Susie Montgomery's bed-and-breakfast in a small Virginia town -- until the day the FBI showed up.

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