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    How Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free Pizza Helped Nab One of America's Most Wanted Non-Fugitives

    Reviewed and edited by a celiac disease expert.

    Wired put the challenge like this: "Author Evan Ratliff Is on the Lam. Locate Him and Win $5,000."

    How Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free Pizza Helped Nab One of America's Most Wanted Non-Fugitives -

    Celiac.com 05/30/2019 - CBS news has a funny reflection on the ten year mark of a story that captivated America, and had a nice celiac-disease twist to its ending. In 2009, one of America's most wanted non-fugitives was done in by celiac disease, and his love of gluten-free pizza. At the time, author Evan Ratliff had teamed up with Wired Magazine who put a $5,000 bounty on his head to see if anyone could track him down. 

    Wired put the challenge like this: "Author Evan Ratliff Is on the Lam. Locate Him and Win $5,000."
    — wired.com/vanish, August 14, 2009

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    Ratliff disguised his appearance, and went on the road, first to Las Vegas, then to LA, before finally making his way to New Orleans. Thousands of people were on the lookout for Ratliff, including a core group of internet sleuths.

    In less than a month those sleuths had uncovered nearly everything about Ratliff: from his signature on lease documents to details of his medical history. 

    Using Ratliff's IP address and figuring out his secret online identity, they tracked him to New Orleans. And that's where Ratliff's celiac disease and his taste for gluten-free pizza caught up with him.

    The fact that, back then, only one local pizzeria served gluten-free pizza made their job easier. The owner of the pizzeria agreed to help, and put his delivery staff on lookout.  Ratliff was caught when he showed up at the pizza parlor. In the end, the owner claimed the $5,000 dollars, and gave Ratliff gluten-free pizza on the house.

    The story resurfaced as part of a recent episode of CBS' "48 Hours," in which Ratliff recounts his story for correspondent Tracy Smith as part of the show's investigation into the disappearance of Peter Chadwick -- a California multimillionaire accused of killing his wife, Q.C. Chadwick, and staging a kidnapping in 2012. Chadwick is now one of the U.S. Marshal Service's 15 most wanted fugitives.



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    Ratliff was caught by the staff of Naked Pizza while outside a book reading event ... to intensify the contest, Wired added cash bonuses to Ratliff to attend various events.

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    Best gluten free and I mean totally gluten free as I am a diagnosed "High sensitive celiac" is Russo's Pizza it is the best pizza I have tasted I had those bad experiences with Pizza Hut, Dominos, and Marcos Pizza but this pizza is fantastic.  I can't get out of parking lot unless I have eaten a piece before setting off home.

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    14 hours ago, Guest Joan said:

    Best gluten free and I mean totally gluten free as I am a diagnosed "High sensitive celiac" is Russo's Pizza it is the best pizza I have tasted I had those bad experiences with Pizza Hut, Dominos, and Marcos Pizza but this pizza is fantastic.  I can't get out of parking lot unless I have eaten a piece before setting off home.

    Where is it?

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    Jefferson Adams is Celiac.com's senior writer and Digital Content Director. He earned his B.A. and M.F.A. at Arizona State University. His articles, essays, poems, stories and book reviews have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and websites, including North American Project, Antioch Review, Caliban, Mississippi Review, Slate, and more. He is the author of more than 2,500 articles on celiac disease. His university coursework includes studies in science, scientific methodology, biology, anatomy, physiology, medicine, logic, and advanced research. He previously devised health and medical content for Colgate, Dove, Pfizer, Sharecare, Walgreens, and more. Jefferson has spoken about celiac disease to the media, including an appearance on the KQED radio show Forum, and is the editor of numerous books, including "Cereal Killers" by Scott Adams and Ron Hoggan, Ed.D.

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