TIL of John Darwin, who faked his death in 2002 to escape mounting debts. He avoided detection for five years until he returned to the UK, faking amnesia, to get a passport so he could own property in Panama. His plan collapsed when a photo of him and his wife taken years after his "death" emerged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darwin_disappearance_case
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