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OBITCH faking it! again!

April 30, 2026 · 1 h 22 min

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TGIT GEOFFS!! This week your favorite gruesome twosome are back and better than ever! We’re giving you a part two of people who faked their own deaths and it’s craaaaaazy. We’ve got an obituary that was a lil premature, one full of lies and so much more…including some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!!! Let’s GOOOO!


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Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/posthumous-postcards-9.7081752

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fraudster-faked-his-death-but-left-fingerprints-851999

https://www.businessinsider.com/people-who-faked-their-own-deaths-2012-8#a-man-faked-his-own-cremation-only-to-get-caught-after-he-remarried-his-wife-6

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/15/businessman-faked-death-us

https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/14/missing.pilot.found/

https://insidetruecrime.com/bailout-confidence-man-cons-pathological-liar/

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/lost-and-found-other-people-who-tried-to-vanish/

http://www.pseudocide.com/william-grothe.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/776406251/?match=1&terms=%22william%20grothe%22

https://news.pollstar.com/2009/01/09/missing-sesac-lawyer-turns-up/

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/sesac-attorney-who-faked-his-own-death-returns-to-nashville-faces-charges/article_5de85e83-3969-57dd-8a75-a0847385ba2b.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2010/03/18/Crash-and-Burn:-The-Marcus-Schrenker-Story.html

https://www.oxygen.com/accident-suicide-or-murder/crime-news/molly-and-clayton-daniels-staged-car-accident-to-fake-death

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12214849

https://www.oxygen.com/accident-suicide-or-murder/season-4/episode-20/videos/clayton-daniels-completely-charred-car

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Woman-sentenced-to-20-years-for-staging-fake-death-7625042.php

https://www.newspapers.com/image/433896084/?article=fc16b8d1-68f6-424c-88de-5e7f1d6ed7f8&terms=alan%20abel%20

https://www.newspapers.com/image/628283187/?match=1&terms=%22alan%20abel%22

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1287533161/?match=1&terms=%22obituary%20disclosed%20as%20hoax%22

https://www.newspapers.com/image/877066432/?match=1&terms=%22obituary%20disclosed%20as%20hoax%22

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.4829798/the-ny-times-wrote-his-first-obit-in-1980-but-prankster-alan-abel-died-last-week-at-94-1.4829804

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649432714/alan-abel-has-died-for-real-this-time

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

https://www.14news.com/2026/04/14/epd-woman-arrested-after-being-found-topless-near-evansville-ymca/

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a39686219/john-anne-darwin-now/

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/08/anne-darwin-deceiving-my-sons-was-unforgivable

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241114-john-stonehouse-the-british-politician-who-was-caught-faking-his-own-death

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

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1176956188/?match=1&terms=%22john%20darwin%22


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