Who would be trusted to work as escrow?
I was just reading the first few pages of the thread and a few different names were thrown around as potential escrows. Dooglus was one. Trying to execute it as an Atomic Swap was another.
What would have happened to Ver if he had managed to swap his BCH for BTC the OP was asking to trade? At worst would it simply be a case of handing over the BTC to lawful enforcement agencies and then receive his BCH back or would it be something else? After all, if the exchange went ahead as far as Ver would have been concerned he was making a 1:1 BCH/BTC trade.
I think you have it backwards: the deal was loaded's BCH for Ver's BTC. Interestingly, loaded sold all his BCH fork proceeds for BTC. As @Rampion hinted, loaded probably got spooked when he saw that Reddit was investigating the source of his funds.
Loaded still never replied to me at all despite my contacting him numerous times. That shows his intentions were dishonest from day one.
Well now we know this probably wasn't the case.