"example of life insurance fraud is the John Darwin disappearance case, which was an investigation into the act of pseudocide committed by the British former teacher and prison officer John Darwin, who turned up alive in December 2007, five years after he was thought to have died in a canoeing accident. Darwin was reported as ""missing"" after failing to report to work following a canoeing trip on March 21, 2002. He reappeared on December 1, 2007, claiming to have no memory of the past five years. Another example is former British Government minister John Stonehouse who went missing in 1974"
"of the book. The case was also covered on a September 2018 episode of ""Swindled"", a podcast about white-collar crime. John Darwin disappearance case The John Darwin disappearance case was an investigation into the faked death of the British former teacher and prison officer John Darwin. Darwin turned up alive in December 2007, five years after he was believed to have died in a canoeing accident. John Darwin was arrested and charged with fraud. His wife, Anne, was also arrested and charged for helping Darwin to collect his life insurance of £25,000. The fraudulent death also allowed the couple to"
"the storyline. ""I couldn't understand how they could work around the fact that she could do that to her children"" the actress explained. Taylforth said ""it had to be right."" In September 2015, Treadwell-Collins revealed to the ""Daily Mirror"" that the story was inspired by the real life John Darwin disappearance where John—also known as the Canoe man—with the help of his wife Anne faked his death in a canoe accident in March 2002 in order to claim the insurance. Kathy's husband Gavin Sullivan (Paul Nicholas) had convinced her to fake her death to keep her children safe. During the"
"John Darwin disappearance case The John Darwin disappearance case was an investigation into the faked death of the British former teacher and prison officer John Darwin. Darwin turned up alive in December 2007, five years after he was believed to have died in a canoeing accident. John Darwin was arrested and charged with fraud. His wife, Anne, was also arrested and charged for helping Darwin to collect his life insurance of £25,000. The fraudulent death also allowed the couple to pay off their £130,000 mortgage. In December 2007, after it was revealed the couple had been photographed together in Panama"
"a man was given a six-year prison sentence for fraud after swindling thousands of dollars from people, by claiming that he knew where the Lafitte treasure was buried and taking their money for the promise to find it. In the mid-1920s, a private search for the treasure of Lafitte extended to the draining of Indian Bayou. As an arm of the Natalbany River in Springfield, Louisiana, the entire bayou was dyked and drained. The work was financed exclusively to search for the treasure of Lafitte. An Indian dugout canoe found at the time is displayed at the Cabildo in New"
"Blumenthal and Jay Rockefeller, ""The Cruise Ship Passenger Protection Act"". The bill would allow for greater transparency when crimes are committed on cruise ships and more federal government protection of passengers' rights. Disappearance of George Smith George Allen Smith IV (born October 3, 1978) was an American man who disappeared overboard from the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS ""Brilliance of the Seas"" in July 2005 under suspicious circumstances. His story has been reported on by ""Dateline NBC"" and ""48 Hours"" and was depicted in a television film. Having married Jennifer Hagel eleven days earlier, George Smith was on his"
"Disappearance of George Smith George Allen Smith IV (born October 3, 1978) was an American man who disappeared overboard from the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS ""Brilliance of the Seas"" in July 2005 under suspicious circumstances. His story has been reported on by ""Dateline NBC"" and ""48 Hours"" and was depicted in a television film. Having married Jennifer Hagel eleven days earlier, George Smith was on his honeymoon, a two-week trip on a Mediterranean cruise stopping in Greece, Turkey and Italy, among other locations. Smith mysteriously disappeared on the evening of July 5, 2005, and evidence suggested that foul"
"2005 fishing trip off the Californian coast. Various theories abounded regarding his disappearance ranging from his death by accident or foul play to McDermott staging his disappearance to avoid child support payments to his ex-wife, actress Yvette Nipar. Newton-John, who was in Australia at her Gaia Retreat & Spa at the time of his disappearance, was never a suspect in McDermott's disappearance. A US Coast Guard investigation, based on then-available evidence and released in 2008, ""suggest[ed] McDermott was lost at sea"", although some have claimed contact with McDermott since his disappearance. In April 2010, private detectives searching for McDermott claimed"
"moor. The boat was adrift in ferry lanes during a 2 hour standoff with police, after which the suspect was arrested and subsequently charged with several crimes, that were ""not only a public spectacle, but were spectacularly reckless and deadly perilous,"" according to the prosecutor. The first person to notice the boat was missing was Darrell Bryan, President and CEO of Clipper Navigation. In 2016, Clipper Navigation was acquired by Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) of Flensburg, Germany. FRS announced plans to expand the company's service to include routes between Victoria and Vancouver and between Florida and Cuba. FRS announced plans"
"Kidnapping of Sidney Jaffe Sidney L. Jaffe (born c. 1925) is a U.S.-born Canadian businessman who was kidnapped from outside his Toronto home in 1981 by American bounty hunters Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear and transported to Florida after failing to appear for a trial there on charges of land sales fraud. His conviction on the fraud charges was overturned on appeal; his conviction on an additional charge of failure to appear for trial was upheld, but he was paroled after two years and returned to Canada. At the request of the Canadian government, Jaffe declined to appear at a"
"of the charges on May 23, 2015. Five police supervisors were also charged with dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor. Their trial was set on July 27, 2015. The families of Russell and Williams filed a lawsuit against the city of Cleveland, and received a settlement of $3 million in November 2014. On January 26, 2016, it was reported that six Cleveland police officers were fired due to their connection with the car chase. They were identified as Brelo, Wilfredo Diaz, Brian Sabolik, Erin O'Donnell, Michael Farley, and Chris Ereg. Michael Brelo (born 1983–84) is an Iraq War veteran. When he"
"entertainers at smaller, affordable venues. The business idea is called a ""condominium circuit"". In later years, it has focused on hiring aged stars of the past, including Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney and Ann Blyth. In November 1948, he went missing while on a private flight from Waukesha, Wisconsin, to Hayward, Missouri. Several planes went searching for him for one-and-a-half days before it was discovered that he had been staying at a hotel anonymously without telling anyone. He was fined 300 U.S. dollars. Breen married fashion model Jocelyn Lesh on November 9, 1952. The couple had a son, Hunter Keith Breen,"
"police to an empty lot on Cleveland's West Side, where a fruitless search was conducted. Wolford was sentenced in January 2013 to four-and-a-half years in prison for obstruction of justice, making a false report, and making a false alarm. On December 25, 2006, Berry gave birth to a daughter at 2207 Seymour Avenue. DNA evidence has confirmed that Castro was the biological father of the child. Georgina ""Gina"" Lynn DeJesus (born February 13, 1990) went missing at age 14. She was last seen at a payphone at about 3 p.m. on April 2, 2004, on the way home from her"
"Canoot Canoot (fl. 1698, real name unknown) was a French pirate active off the coast of New England. In early 1698 John Redwood of Philadelphia was sailing out of Maryland’s Sinepuxent Bay toward Cape May when he was attacked by Canoot and his pirates. They exchanged ships with Redwood, leaving him their slower vessel and taking his sloop. That September Canoot sailed to the waters off Sussex County, Delaware. Residents saw the sloop but were not alarmed. The following day he stormed the town of Lewes with fifty men, plundering everything of value, including the residents’ clothes, leaving them ""scarce"
"the photo from the 2017 Australian tabloid, as a case of mistaken identity. The owner of the vessel will be seeking return of legal fees upward of $80,000 if McDermott returns to the States. ""Mr. McDermott's wishes, according to his counsel, is not to be 'hounded' any longer by investigators or the media,"" Klein said at a press conference. Though the Coast Guard believed he drowned, many believed he staged his death to get out of his financial obligations and to cash in on a $100,000 life insurance policy for his son. However, McDermott's ex-wife, Yvette Nipar, whom he had"
"next day he was spotted north of Prince Rupert, but he failed to appear in court as scheduled. There have been no confirmed sightings of Hadwin ever since. In June 1997, the wreckage of Hadwin's kayak and equipment was found on uninhabited Mary Island, northwest of Prince Rupert. Because Hadwin was known to be an expert in wilderness survival and said to have an exceptional tolerance for the cold, some people believe that Hadwin faked his own death and vanished into the wilderness. His ultimate fate is unknown. Grant Hadwin Thomas Grant Hadwin (born October 25, 1949) was a Canadian"
"Clinton Avenue Five The Clinton Avenue Five are five young men who disappeared on August 20, 1978, in Newark, New Jersey. The name is derived from the street where they were last seen. The case eventually went cold. The five teenagers were: Thirty years later, in November 2008, while in police custody on an unrelated charge and after a 13-hour interrogation, Philander Hampton confessed that he and his cousin, local contractor Lee Anthony Evans, had lured the teenagers to his former Newark residence (256 Camden Street) with the promise of employment. Angry at the boys for stealing marijuana from his"
"30 January 1948, he disappeared along with all the other passengers and crew of the airliner G-AHNP ""Star Tiger"" when it vanished without a trace somewhere off the eastern coast of the United States in the Bermuda Triangle. Coningham was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 19 January 1895. His early life was one that made him learn to be adaptable. His father, also Arthur Coningham, was noted for playing Test cricket, but was by disposition a con man who was exposed in court for fabricating legal evidence in a trial designed to extort a Catholic priest, Denis Francis O'Haran, secretary"
"missing in 1995. Five weeks later, after law enforcement officials discovered his remains beneath the concrete and tile-covered floor where his hot tub once sat at his home in Indio, California, his live-in contractor Fred Fulford was arrested at the Coral Reef Hotel in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Fulford was charged with and convicted of murder, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Regular Adamson actor and stuntman Gary Kent testified in the trial as the last person to speak to the director prior to the murder. The case of Al Adamson's murder is documented in the Investigation Discovery"
"that he was known to throw crew members' items overboard if found laying haphazardly about. He published an account of sailing his yacht, ""Haswell"", from Toronto to the Caribbean in the winter of 1920-21 entitled, ""5,000 Miles in a 27-Tonner."" Jarvis was convicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of the Province of Ontario, after having saved that government millions of dollars in the retirement of war bonds. Though he was jailed for six months, for the remainder of his life he stoutly defended his innocence. He'd refused, against all advice, to testify in his own defense,"
"property"" by false pretenses is covered. Carl W. Cleveland was prosecuted under the statute. The state alleged Cleveland had deceived another company relating to video poker license renewals. Before trial, he unsuccessfully attempted to get the charges dismissed. A jury later found him guilty and he was sentenced to over 100 months in prison. Cleveland appealed. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence, holding that ""property"" did in fact include video poker licenses in the ""hands of the state"". After a series of appellate courts split on this issue, the Supreme Court granted certiorari. Justice Ginsburg"
"John Ruffo John Ruffo (born November 24, 1954) is an American former business executive, white-collar criminal and confidence man, who in 1998 was convicted in a scheme to defraud many US and foreign banking institutions of over 350 million dollars. The swindle is considered one of the most significant cases of bank fraud in US history. He has been a fugitive from justice ever since, and is on the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was the President of CCS, an IBM equipment reseller in New York City, in 1996. Ruffo was born to a close-knit Italian American"
"David Friedland David J. Friedland (born December 20, 1937) is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Hudson County, New Jersey who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1966 to 1974 and then was elected to the Senate, serving from 1978 until his conviction on racketeering charges in 1980. He disappeared in September 1985 while awaiting sentencing by faking his death in a supposed drowning incident off Grand Bahama and was one of the U.S. government's most wanted fugitives until his capture in the Maldives in 1987 where he drew attention to himself after creating a successful"
"a flea market in Milton, West Virginia, on October 2, 2005. According to the police, Brown, allegedly upset that collectible coins he had purchased a few weeks before were worthless, returned to the flea market representing himself as a police officer, handcuffed her, and drove the girl to Kanawha County under the pretense of taking her in for questioning. The girl escaped from Brown's car a few hours later after realizing he was not an officer, according to West Virginia State Police. After the arrest, the USMC demoted Brown to Captain and involuntarily retired him at that rank on February"
"Man Overboard (book) Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne is a non-fiction biography and true crime book by author Burl Barer that was released in 1995 by Northwest Publishing. It is the story of Champagne's life after his faked death. Champagne, a construction developer, disappeared in 1982 while aboard a 45-foot yacht that was sailing off the Olympic Peninsula. He was presumed dead after a 13-hour search by the U.S. Coast Guard. A $1.5 million life-insurance business policy, taken out by his brother as co-partner in a construction firm with Champagne, paid out $700,000 to his grieving family."
"hoax remain in legal limbo as of 2017. Joseph ""Jay"" Miscovich was a Pennsylvania real estate developer, entrepreneur, and novice diver. He was known for making investing in unconventional business ventures, such as giving money to treasure hunters and marine salvers. Notably, Miscovich he had been an investor in Motivation Inc., a marine salvage company that had famously found and recovered treasure from the wreck of a 17th-century Spanish Galleon, ""Nuestra Señora de Atocha"", off of Key West. This find further peaked Miscovich's interest in the marine salvage industry, with him later stating in court that “I started realizing that"
"that the judge had ordered him to repay. However, this was because all the assets were in Anne Darwin's name. By July 2015, the pair no longer had any assets, having repaid a total of £541,762.39. The story of John and Anne Darwin was dramatised in the BBC Four programme ""Canoe Man"" in 2010. The film starred Bernard Hill and Saskia Reeves as John and Anne Darwin, respectively. Musician Martin Gordon documented the story with the song ""Panama"" from his 2009 release ""Time Gentlemen Please"". In fiction, it inspired a 2009 novel by Adrian Gere called ""Return from the Dead"","
"Florida area. Authorities in the Atlanta area discovered Cox's activities, and eventually his identity. On August 6, 2004, the United States Secret Service issued arrest warrants for Cox, alleging conspiracy, identity theft, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and social security number fraud. News broadcasts showed photos of Cox and Hauck and requested that viewers provide any information pertaining to their whereabouts. By spring 2005, the couple had eluded authorities for eighteen months, using dozens of identities, including ones stolen from former co-workers and acquaintances. Cox also stole identities from the homeless by posing as a survey–taking Red Cross worker"
"since the 1990s. He has also taught skiing at Deer Valley. Feltman has since lived in Newport Beach, California, Kapaa, Hawaii and Park City, Utah, . He currently lives in Orange County, California. He has three daughters, Tiffany (1969), Shelby (1972) and Miley (1991), and two grandchildren. On July 11, 1995, Feltman faked his own disappearance in Idaho. His SUV was found near a river where he reportedly went fishing. After a week-long search involving 265 people, he turned up in Lake Charles, Louisiana in another SUV he had reported stolen a few months earlier. Bud Feltman Francis Lloyd ""Bud"""
"to get then-Mayor Booker elected to a second term in office. State and city officials filed motions on January 22, 2015, to dismiss the complaint, stating that Evans had not provided a factual basis to conclude that any of the ECPO defendants had deprived him of his constitutional rights. A third man has also been considered a suspect in the case. This was Maurice Woody-Olds, who died of natural causes in 2008. All three of the suspects are cousins. Clinton Avenue Five The Clinton Avenue Five are five young men who disappeared on August 20, 1978, in Newark, New Jersey."
"District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The indictment charged Overmyer and Connery with six counts of bankruptcy fraud, two counts of conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud, and one count of mail fraud. Connery, charged in six counts, was granted a severance. Overmyer was convicted by a federal jury in Akron and sentenced to five years in federal prison. He had the decision overturned only to have that decision appealed in the appellant court. In 1989, Overmyer was sentenced again, this time to six months in federal prison and fined nearly $850,000. Overmyer married his wife Shirley in 1943."
"days later and received three-year sentences. The uninsured Star of India was recovered in a foot locker at a Miami bus station. Most of the other gems were also recovered, except the Eagle Diamond, which has since been hypothesized to have been cut down into smaller stones. Richard Duncan Pearson was also convicted. The heist was the subject of the film ""Murph the Surf"" (1975), directed by Marvin Chomsky, and starring Robert Conrad, Burt Young, and Don Stroud (as Murphy). In 1967, in Broward County, Florida, the weighted-down bodies of Terry Rae Frank and Annelle Marie Mohn were found in"
"then Montreal, and then Halifax, Nova Scotia. In mid-February 2004, it emerged that a French man named Georges Lecuit had reported his passport stolen in 1998. Staufen was arrested and jailed, then released on condition that he report regularly to Immigration, which he last did on October 4, 2004, in Victoria, British Columbia. Skeid and Herve both subsequently disappeared. In April 2005, a man matching Skeid's description was discovered wandering on a beach on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, wearing a dripping-wet suit and tie. The man did not speak, but was a skilled pianist, a fact discovered after"