If you’re going to fake your own death, there are a few basic but key steps you need to take if you want the scheme to be successful. The first is making people believe you are dead. The second step is that you move far away to a place where no one will ever recognize you. You should also get new forms of identification and change your appearance as much as possible. Then, it’s just a matter of laying low. Don’t get in trouble with the law, and stay out of the public eye.
While one would think that these are fairly easy rules to follow, they weren’t for the 10 people on this list. All of them somehow managed to screw up their diabolical plans by doing something stupid that got them arrested.

10: Michael Rosen
In 2010, 42-year-old Michael Rosen of Salem, Massachusetts, was due in court for driving with a suspended license. He was also facing charges because a former girlfriend accused him of stealing her credit cards and running up charges. In an incredibly shortsighted ruse, Rosen pretended to be his brother and said that Michael Rosen was dead. He even handed over a death certificate to a county judge. The judge accepted it and cleared Rosen of all charges.
At the time, Rosen was on parole, and his parole officer was surprised to learn that Rosen was dead. The officer had just seen Rosen the week before he supposedly died, and he seemed healthy. So the parole officer looked at the death certificate and noticed that there were a number of problems with it: A major one was that there wasn’t an official stamp on it. Secondly, there were a bunch of spelling mistakes and incorrect data. Saugus, which is a town in Massachusetts, was spelled “Saugas.” As for where Rosen was supposedly buried, it was “Temple Isreal Cemetery” instead of Temple Israel Cemetery, and Rosen supposedly died from “acute cardio-respiratory arrest” as opposed to acute cardiac respiratory arrest.
It soon became obvious that Rosen simply found the template online and filled out the information himself. He was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to three years. Hopefully, they have a Microsoft Word course in prison so Rosen can learn about the spell-check function.

9: Harry Gordon
On June 3, 2000, one-time multimillionaire businessman Harry Gordon disappeared while boating on the Karuah River near Sydney, Australia. His boat was found washed ashore, and the deck was littered with empty champagne bottles. In April 2001, a coroner’s inquest ruled that Gordon was dead; he had been thrown overboard and drowned. In reality, he took a rubber dinghy and first hid out in Sydney. Using a fake passport with the name of “Rob Motzel,” he made his way to Spain and then to England before he returned to the country of his birth, New Zealand. He settled in Auckland. There, he sold garages and project homes and met the woman who would be his second wife.
Gordon’s unraveling was due to a chance encounter. Have you ever been out in public and you see someone from your past that you really don’t feel like talking to again? You walk by them, doing everything possible to not make contact, hoping they’ll just walk on by? Well, Gordon must have had this feeling in May 2005 when he bumped into his older brother, Michael, while he was hiking on a walking trail on Mount Maunganui in Tauranga, New Zealand. At first, Michael walked by, but then he decided to confront Gordon. Gordon confirmed that he was who his brother thought he was, but he didn’t want to tell his fiancee about his real identity. Instead, he called his brother after the encounter and he explained what happened.
In September 2005, Gordon married for a second time and went to the Cook Islands for a honeymoon. Meanwhile, Michael was in Sydney trying to convince Gordon’s wife to go to the police. Michael had spent five years helping her deal with her “grief,” along with coping with his own. She finally went to the police, and at the end of his honeymoon, Gordon wasn’t allowed to fly back to Auckland because he was using a stolen passport. Instead, in November, using his real passport, he flew back to Sydney, where he was arrested. Gordon’s former wife was arrested and sentenced to five months of house arrest for pretending her husband was dead. Gordon spent a year in prison.
A year after being released, he published a book called The Harry Gordon Story: How I Faked My Own Death. As for why Gordon did it, he said it was mostly about money; his family was supposed to collect a $3.5 million insurance payout, but they never collected the full sum. He also said that he was involved in a get-rich-quick scheme with Ukrainian gangsters that supposedly went violently awry. He’d also mismanaged 20 tons of asbestos and a workers’ compensation case. All of this, in addition to personal problems he was having with his marriage and his daughter that he had fathered as a teenager, made him fake his own death. He believes that the downfall of his con was meeting his second wife, who amazingly stayed with him through the ordeal.

8: Alfredo Sanchez
In 2003, web designer Alfredo Sanchez, who lived in Farnham, Surrey, England, hatched what he thought was a brilliant plan. He racked up a ton of credit card debt and took out a £500,000 life insurance policy. First, his family rented a home in Costa Rica in August 2004, but after they ran out of money, Sanchez returned to England. Sanchez took out more loans and then flew to Ecuador by himself. After he moved, his wife, Sophie Sanchez, told his employer, HMV, that Sanchez had died in South America and had been cremated. As proof, she turned over a death certificate.
The plan worked. Sophie was able to get the insurance payouts and a death benefit from HMV. Also, the loans that Alfredo took out had a stipulation that the debts would be forgiven in case of death. After collecting the money, Sophie joined Alfredo in South America, and the couple, along with their four children, moved to Australia.
Everything was going fine until around 2007. Problems arose because Alfredo had given his friend his HMV staff discount card before he “died,” and when the friend tried to use it to buy an Elvis CD, he was arrested. At the police station, the friend called Alfredo, who hung up on him.
This piqued the interest of the police, and they began to investigate Alfredo’s “death.” A major clue that contributed to Alfredo’s downfall was the fact that his fingerprints were found on something that should have never been handled by Alfredo—his death certificate. The police also talked to Sophie’s family and found that Alfredo was alive and was using the name “Hugo Jose.” He had legally changed his name to Hugo Jose years before he faked his death.
In 2010, Sophie was arrested when she returned to England for her sister’s funeral. She was given two years in prison. Alfredo was arrested in Australia in November 2011, and he was extradited back to England. In March 2012, he was sentenced to five years in prison.

7: Kimberly Du
In December 2005, 36-year-old Kimberly Du of Des Moines, Iowa, was due in court for traffic violations. On December 15, a Polk County judge received a letter from Du’s mother explaining that Du was dead. Included with the letter was an obituary that looked like it was printed from The Des Moines Register’s website. It appeared that Du had died in a car crash on December 5. The day after the judge received the letter, Du’s charges were dismissed.
Unfortunately for Du, dying didn’t improve her driving ability. She was stopped again on January 4, 2006, for a traffic violation. The officer checked her driving record and saw that she was supposed to be dead. This led to an investigation, and the police spoke to Du’s mother, who said that she never wrote or signed the letter that was received by the judge. The letter was examined, and investigators proved that the signature was forged. Also, The Des Moines Register never published an obituary for Kimberly Du, and none of the area’s funeral homes hosted her funeral.
Du was given two years of probation and a $500 fine and was ordered to receive help for substance abuse.

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chocolateme:
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Skiibii should be on dat list op

fortuneobi:
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How did Skiibii try to fake her own death and fail miserably?

Ijeleigbo:


How did Skiibii try to fake her own death and fail miserably?

...the purported death story only 4 us 2 learn he didn't die