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Dead man walks in police station.
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A canoeist who walked into a police station five years after going missing has no memory of what happened, police have said.
This is a strange old interesting story. At first I thought he may have the same condition as Harold Bishop, but no, its starting to look like fraud or deception.
Police are now questioning the canoeist, after he was photographed in Panama six months ago with his wife even though he was supposed to be dead.
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Funny how his wife decided to move to the tax haven soon after receiving his life insurance
Now I know we shouldn't speculate, but- what the hell.
I think it was a scam to get his life insurance.
What makes me wonder though is if it was a scam, was his family in on it? How could you keep quiet for 5 years, knowing what you know ?
Any thoughts ?
A canoeist who walked into a police station five years after going missing has no memory of what happened, police have said.
This is a strange old interesting story. At first I thought he may have the same condition as Harold Bishop, but no, its starting to look like fraud or deception.
Police are now questioning the canoeist, after he was photographed in Panama six months ago with his wife even though he was supposed to be dead.
(Full Story)Funny how his wife decided to move to the tax haven soon after receiving his life insurance
Now I know we shouldn't speculate, but- what the hell.
I think it was a scam to get his life insurance.What makes me wonder though is if it was a scam, was his family in on it? How could you keep quiet for 5 years, knowing what you know ?
Any thoughts ?
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Smells like a coverup to me.
It's fraud. I guarantee it.
I've forgotten the odd evening, but five years must have been one hell of a bender...
I think they found his family - he was German if I remember
But, yes people loose there memory and dissappear, but its an odd coincidence that he looses it once and dissapears and then looses it again, but regains his previous memory. and it's even odder if this is just at the time the police start looking into the case again
Or worked for a high secret government agency, who gave him specifically made drugs so that he'd forget everything about the time he worked there and nothing else.
The timing involved does look a little suspicious. People losing their memory for no apparent reason (ie, no head injury, or alcohol abuse involved), does always raise suspicions though, I think. The writer Agatha Christie had some such experience where she disappeared for months and when they found her she'd created a fake identity for herself, which she seemed to believe was the real one. I don't think anyone really knows to this day whether it was a genuine nervous breakdown, or an attention seeking exercise because her husband was having an affair.
Furthermore, would you let your kids think you are dead for 5 years? Probably not.
And would you let your aged father think that his son had died in mysterious circumstances and run the risk that he may go to his death a broken man? Probably not.
If you did pretend to those people that you are dead, you are one cold heartless bastard.
I think a lot more is going to come out of the woodwork aside from the husband and wife being involved ...
Of course it will, but whether a Panamanian bank will hand it over is another matter altogether.
The fraud now seems pretty evident ...
maybe he took maddy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7133961.stm
he was living with his wife :shocking: