TIFU entire class decided to write letters to a prisoner UPDATE

For those who haven't read the first long story, when I was in an IB class in the 1990s, our teacher thought it was a great idea for us to answer an advertisement of a French prisoner in need of someone to correspond to. Our class wrote the man diligently until he sent a letter detailing why he was in prison. Concerned about his situation, we all decided to stop when summer came. The next year, our teacher asked us which one of us told him her address and birthday because she got a card in the mail. We were silent in the face of her accusation, and we all agreed to not contact him again.

Here is the link to the original

Now, onto some updates:

So my coworker and I had a chance to talk today. I asked her if she still had Maxim's letter because I would love to read it again. She laughed and said she does have it somewhere, but she's not certain where. But as we were talking, she did have some things that I need to clarify.

So my memory wasn't what it used to be. She told me it was a French newspaper that we were reading called Francophone that was published in America. I did have the ad right, but he wasn't in Colorado, he was imprisoned in Oregon.

And I knew the letter was long, but it was 8 pages instead of 3. She said when she read the whole saga, she thought one of two things, either he was delusional or it was true. She remembered much of the information that I have already said. So the smuggling, drugs, arrest, all the same. However, she told me that she remembered he told her that before he was arrested, his wife and he were held hostage by a Colombian drug cartel for a year. Somehow he and his wife escaped, though she couldn't remember how that happened. It wasn't until they left the cartel that Maxim was arrested by the American government.

She did have an update on Maxim's current life. He lives in Israel now. She thought it had to do with some extradition laws, but that was a few years ago too.

To be honest, I wrote this post because I don't talk about this much and the telling of my tale would die in an Internet void. I really didn't anticipate all the responses and interest, so thank you.

But at the same time, I hope Maxim is well and doesn't remember our class. Otherwise, this will become TIFU by posting on Reddit about a French criminal who found me again.

TL;DR: Talked to coworker who provided more detail. Apparently forgot the year prisoner spent as a hostage to a drug cartel. Hoping he doesn't read reddit.