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A faked death, also called a staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when the person is, in fact, still alive. The faking of one's own death by suicide is sometimes referred to as pseuicide or pseudocide . [ 1 ]
At the same time Ishikawa also attempted to garner payment for these murders. She and Takeshi solicited large sums of money from the parents, claiming that it would be less than the expense of raising their unwanted children. ShirÅ Nakayama, a doctor, was also complicit in this scheme and aided the couple by falsifying death certificates.
John Darwin applied for and obtained a passport using the false name "John Jones", but using his true home address. [18] In November 2004, the couple visited Cyprus to investigate buying property there. In May 2005, an angler claimed to have met Darwin, who was going under the name "John Williams", at a lake near Penzance, Cornwall. [19]
A second former Milwaukee police officer has pleaded guilty to falsifying records in connection to the 2022 in-custody death of Keishon D. Thomas, who was in custody for 16 hours before he was ...
A Nueces County grand jury did not indict Dr. Adel Shaker, the former chief medical examiner, on criminal charges filed against him two years ago.
The Philippine justice secretary pledged on Tuesday to launch an investigation after a forensic pathologist said some death certificates issued for victims of the country's crackdown on drugs had ...
Joyce Gilchrist (January 11, 1948 – June 14, 2015) [1] was an American forensic chemist who was accused of falsifying evidence in order to help prosecutors in Oklahoma.She participated in more than 3,000 criminal cases in 21 years while working for the Oklahoma City Police Department.
On 8 January 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a death hoax. A man phoned HLN claiming to be President George H. W. Bush's physician, alleging that Bush had died following an incident in Tokyo where he vomited and lost consciousness; however, before anchorman Don Harrison was about to report the news, executive producer Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No!