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And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 times famous people faked their deaths and got caught.

Think about it.

He falls off a ship by accident.

But just a few days before, he had formally said goodbye to his longtime love for this list, we're looking at the most intriguing cases of people in the public eye who were discovered to have staged their own deaths.

Which of these pseudo sides do you think was the sloppiest let us know in the comments number 10.

Patrick McDermott born kim jong nam in Seoul south Korea.

Patrick McDermott moved to the United States after he was adopted by an american family.

At the age of two, McDermott met Australian music star Olivia Newton john in the 19 nineties and the two struck up a nine year on and off relationship.

McDermott met her during the shoot.

He was behind the camera and they were very close dated for nine years before he went missing.

On june 30th 2005, McDermott boarded a fishing charter boat in California and was never seen again after his disappearance garnered significant press attention.

Many speculated that it was all staged by McDermott to evade paying his debts.

McDermott had recently declared bankruptcy and faced back child support payments to his ex wife.

I.

Actress, Yvette nope are another reason was to secure a $150,000 life insurance payout for his son.

McDermott was allegedly found to be living in Mexico by private investigators from NBC's Dateline.

Although his ex wife has publicly refuted those findings, McDermott's ex wife believes he's dead and has called the detective a serial liar who is simply looking to be fame at the expense of an unfortunate tragedy in our lives.

Number nine timothy dexter, timothy.

Dexter was an affluent american businessman who was born into a poor household in the mid 18th century.

His fortune changed when he married Elizabeth Rockingham, an older, richer widow and was able to invest in several eccentric business ventures.

By this point, he was pretty confident in his speculation skills.

So he started seemingly far fetched ventures all by himself.

Dexter shipped bed warmers to the tropics and exported cats to the Caribbean islands during a rat infestation.

Although he had amassed a lot of wealth.

Dexter was still rejected by new England High Society.

He faked his funeral to see how many Mourners would show up and surprisingly over 3000 people did.

I'm sure if you had a funeral or memorial service, tons of people would come exactly.

It was found to be all a ruse after dexter miraculously rose from the dead to flog his wife for not mourning his loss enough.

Number eight chandra Mohan Sharma, unhappy with his marriage.

Indian social activist, chandra Mohan Sharma decided to run away and start a new life with another woman chandra Mohan allegedly did this because he was unhappy in his marriage and wanted to live with a 25 year old woman to stage his death convincingly Sharma befriended a man experiencing homelessness in his area and set his own car on fire with the man inside it.

He moved to another city with his new girlfriend whose families soon reported her missing a few months later with the financial burden.

Now weighing him down, Sharma called his girlfriend's family from a public call center and gave them her location.

But because he was strapped for cash, he then called the woman's family who had been reported missing from three different pcos claiming she had been found.

The call was traced by the police leading to Sharma's arrest.

He was returned home, much to his family's surprise and sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of the sun housed man.

He was produced by noida cops at a press meet where police said he had taken only he had in fact faked his own death but also killed a mentally unstable man.

Number seven Marcus Schrenker in the face of impending financial and legal doom investment Tycoon Marcus Schrenker attempted to fake his death.

Seriously, Dad crashed an airplane and we don't know where he is.

An accomplished pilot shrinker flew his private plane himself from an airstrip In indiana headed for florida.

At some point during the flight, Schrenker made a pretend distress call and parachuted out of the plane over Alabama.

He radioed a phony distress call before parachuting from this plane that would soon crash in a north florida swamp.

After the dispatch military jets found the plane still flying empty.

They knew something was up.

This triggered a three day manhunt for Schrenker across multiple states.

The fleeing financial fellow was eventually captured on a K.

O.

A campground in florida.

After officials traced an email he had sent to a friend the previous night.

West marshals and local law enforcement found the 38 year old shrinker huddled inside a tent at north florida campground.

They caught him.

CBS news learned after tracing this email he sent to a friend.

Number six jerry being jerry Beall was a professional wrestler whose career came to a screeching halt after he was involved in a ghastly bike accident, he began managing a motorcycle store where he wrote fraudulent checks and was indicted by the FBI on multiple counts of forgery.

Yellow Sock went on the run just before his trial began and adopted a new name.

He lived for years undetected and prosecutors dropped the charges against him after they were convinced he had died in the 1978 Jonestown massacre.

Jonestown was supposed to be a paradise in the South American jungle.

It was anything but yellow Sock could have gone on living freely under his new identity, but his criminal tendencies never went away.

In 1989 he was arrested for attempted murder and his true identity was discovered the minute he was fingerprinted number five David friedland in an era of rife with political corruption.

Former New Jersey State Senator David Friedland still managed to stand out in 1979.

The crooked law lawmaker was charged with accepting bribes in exchange for arranging fraudulent loans from the Teamsters union pension fund.

Friedland accepted a deal to avoid jail time in exchange for becoming a government informant, but when it looked like he might still be going to prison, he faked his death in a scuba diving accident in the Bahamas.

Friedland then traveled the world and ended up in the Maldives where he kept a high profile as the owner of a chain of scuba diving shops.

This ultimately led to his arrest and extradition back to the U.

S.

Number four.

Arkady bob jenko on may 29th 2018.

Ukrainian officials announced that Russian journalist and Kremlin critic, Arkady bob jenko had been shot and killed in his home in Kiev.

Reports of Arkady Shevchenko dominated the news in Ukraine bob jenko had written critic about Russian foreign policy that can be a deadly profession.

Under Russian President Vladimir Putin bob jenko had fled Russia a year before and settled in Kiev with his family out of fear for his life.

It was reported that his death was possibly ordered by the Russian government, but this was denied by the country's officials confirming one man was in custody, The head of the Ukrainian security services said, they told bob jenko of the a month ago and they discovered a $40,000 bounty on his head.

Kinko's death was actually staged with makeup and pig's blood in an attempt to foil a real assassination plot against him and exposed a number of secret agents in Ukraine.

He then made a dramatic appearance at a press conference the day after his supposed death.

To the absolute shock of everyone watching number three ken Keesey ken Casey was an american writer, most notable for his debut 1962 novel, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

The book was adapted into the 1975 film which won all five major academy awards.

Tell me, do you think there's anything wrong with your mind?

Really?

Another thing, doc, I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science Keesey formed merry pranksters, a collective that went on long road trips in a colorful bus and through psychedelic parties known as acid tests.

Such media coverage brought news of the acid tests to the world and the san Francisco scene became a beacon to a young generation that felt a new consciousness was needed.

It was the birth of the counterculture.

After getting arrested for drug possession case, he faked his own demise by planting a farewell note in his truck and parking it by a cliff.

He ran off to Mexico where he lived for eight months without being detected on his return to the U.

S.

Casey was arrested by the police and sentenced to six months in a California jail keys, he fled to Mexico in the back of a friend's car, only to return to the States eight months late where he was promptly apprehended by police.

Number two phillips says Arrigo in 1991 a royal artillery soldier named Philip says Arrigo faked his death by a supposed car bomb in Croatia and began living a new life in Belgium.

It's believed he did this to avoid making mandatory payments to his estranged wife under the pen name Tom Karu says Arrigo wrote a book titled Jihad The Secret War in Afghanistan, which bac came a bestseller after the september 11th attacks.

We think back to that day, 20 years ago that the city and our world changed forever.

The book detailed an account of his experience training afghan insurgents to fight soviet troops which was later proven to be entirely fabricated.

Arrigo as Tom Karoo granted multiple tv interviews after 9 11, the worst case scenario if we suddenly decide okay lads, we're going to go up in the mountains for them because that is what they're expecting and they are experts in the mountains.

It was during one such interview that he was recognized by his family and his true identity was revealed before we continue.

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Number one john Stonehouse british mp john Stonehouse was a rising star under Harold Wilson's Labor Party led government.

It's a prison industry and you've got to remember this.

You people who haven't been inside must remember that it's providing employment for 18,700 men and women facing fine Financial trouble and suspicions that he was a Czechoslovakian spy stonehouse decided to run away and start a new life.

He disappeared in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes behind on a Miami beach to create the impression that he had met his end in the water.

What while his obituaries were being published, Stonehouse had already fled to Australia with his mistress.

He was caught just about a month later when he opened a new bank account and the teller observed some highly suspicious activity.

Stonehouse was deported back to the U.

K.

Where surprisingly, he continued to serve as an mp.

The full resources of Scotland yard can only produce charges of this character after all this time.

Then I really don't have anything to worry about.