Charlie Engle (marathoner)

[1] After living in California for a time, he moved to Southern Pines, North Carolina with his father and stepmother in 1976 and began attending Pinecrest High School.

[2] Engle enrolled in UNC but soon began to have problems with alcohol and cocaine, which caused him to falter in his academics.

In July 1992 while Engle was working in Wichita, Kansas, one of his cocaine binges ended with his car being shot at with a spray of bullets.

The contacts he had developed in the entertainment industry from working on Extreme Makeover helped Engle get director James Moll to film a documentary of a 2007 run across the Sahara Desert.

[citation needed] In 2010, Engle was convicted of 12 counts of mortgage fraud,[6] and served 16 months in federal prison in Beckley, West Virginia before being released to a halfway house.