Where could this person be … well, I can't even imagine …
As the well-deserved favorite of the "decommunizers" I. V. Stalin, ominously puffing on his pipe, “Death solves all problems. No man - no problem. " The heroes of the following life situations decided to prove this statement in practice by faking their own … death. Some of them succeeded, some didn't, but … they all went down in history and our TOP-7 together!
Connie Franklin: a witness in his own murder case
This sensation hit the whole country. In 1929, a vagabond named Connie Franklin and his girlfriend Tillar Ruminer were captured by gunmen in the Ozarks, Arkansas, before their wedding. He was killed, his body mutilated and burned, and she was raped - at least that's what the girl said. For this heinous crime, 5 people were brought to criminal responsibility, but the case did not go well. In addition to the fact that there was no evidence of the murder, Connie himself was walking around the city in search of work. He denied that he was the one killed, and Tillar stated that she did not recognize him. The process itself was like a farce, and even Time magazine wrote about it. Connie stood his ground and swore that he was not the murdered man.
And he was right … in a way. It turned out that his real name is Marion Franklin Rogers, he is a father of 4 children, who escaped from a mental hospital and wanted to start a new life. The defendants were found not guilty, and an angry judge ordered the recordings to be burned.
Ken Kesey: trumped-up suicide
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Probably the most famous simulator on our list. The author of the classic novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and member of the 60s countercultural group The Merry Pranksters faked his own death in 1965 to avoid being arrested for possession of marijuana. He left his car near a cliff in Eureka, California, along with a suicide note, "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you after all," and fled to Mexico. When Ken returned less than a year later, he was jailed for 5 months.
Corey Taylor: pretended to be dead so as not to pay for mobile communications
“How much did I say?” … Nobody likes to pay for a bad mobile connection, but would you do that? Corey Taylor is fed up with Verizon's awful service. Upon learning that the dead did not pay their bills, he forged his own death certificate. The company quickly revealed his deception and in the end he had to fork out for $ 175, which he owed. Positioning himself as a fighter for the rights of angry users, he later stated: "I swear, I made it clear how many people are fed up with being pulled money from them for a faulty connection."
Alison Matera: fake death and attend your own funeral
Alison Matera was a very nice girl. She couldn't figure out how to tell her fellow parishioners and acquaintances that she didn't want to go to church. As a result, she told friends in the choir that she was dying of cancer. She drove them by the nose for almost a year. For some time she talked about how the treatment was going. When Alison stopped going to church, she told everyone that she was going to the hospice to die there. Finally, she called the pastor, introduced herself as a nurse and announced her “death” on January 18, 2007. But she must have missed her old friends and therefore showed up at the funeral, posing as her own sister. Soon her cunning was revealed.
William Grotte: acted as his own assassin
William Grotte, a prominent lawyer from Nashville, went even further. His wife reported her husband's missing to the police on November 19, 2008. The man's wallet, leather jacket and a bag of groceries were found near the river. To make sure that the police believed in his death, on November 24, Grotte allegedly called the police and said that he himself was a murderer. This voice coincided with the voice of the "killed", which was recorded on the answering machine. He was later found in Missoula, Montana and ordered to pay $ 13,000 to find him.
Hugo José Sánchez: faked death and caught buying an Elvis CD
He would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for … Elvis. Hugo José Sánchez worked for the British retail giant HMV but was so poor he could hardly support his family. That is why he got the idea to fake death from a heart attack and move with his family to Costa Rica. The company swallowed the deception and even sent his wife to Ecuador to retrieve the alleged monument and, most importantly, began paying a huge pension. The villainous scheme was exposed when a friend of Hugo tried to use his HMV discount card to purchase an Elvis Presley CD. He even called Hugo from the police station, but he hung up. Investigators quickly saw through the plan and sent both to jail.
Benny Wint: 20 years pretending to be dead for no reason
Benny Wint decided he was wanted and went on the run. On the eve of his wedding to Patricia Hollingsworth in 1989, he went swimming and never returned. He was considered drowned - Benny was mourned by his bride, ex-wife and 4-year-old son. After 20 years, he was stopped for not having a light bulb on his license plate. Suddenly he decided to confess all his sins. Wint told police that he fled and did not return because he thought he was wanted on drug charges. He lived under the name William Sweet, married a second time and has a 17-year-old son. It turned out that no one was looking for him, so he hid in vain. This guy then had to explain a lot …