Friday, December 14, 2007

All At Sea

I don't know if you've been subjected to the story of John Darwin, who went missing when sailing his canoe 5 years ago and was declared dead a year later.

A couple of weeks ago he walked into a police station saying that he didn't know where he'd been for the last five years, he'd suffered from memory loss.

Then someone googled his and his wife's names and found that they had been photographed a year ago in Panama buying a condo. A national newspaper broke the news.

His wife had sold the family home six weeks before he resurfaced, and was believed to be in Panama. She came home via Miami. She had said after his reappearance that she hadn't seen her husband for the five years since he went missing, and had collected on his life policies in good faith. Both are now under arrest.

Now it turns out that HE never lost his memory, and SHE knew where he was all the time - mostly in the house. He sneaked into an adjoining bedsit whenever they had visitors.

He came home because he wanted to see his sons - they had been deceived by both their parents. Strangely enough, they are not happy with their mother and father.

8 comments:

SnarkAngel said...

HA! I'll bet they're not happy with Mom and Pops! Not only did the two sons have to endure the grief for a lost parent who was never lost, I'll bet they did NOT GET ONE DIME OF THOSE LIFE INSURANCE PROCEEDS! I'd disown my own parents for that faux pas alone! LOL! How dare they not share!!!

Gunga Dean said...
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Gunga Dean said...

BTW. I want tochange my Image. Have other greenmen who are feeling slighted...

Gunga Dean said...

Whenever the US news gets bored. This stuff is all over the place. Have read and heard about this couple ad nauseam.

We should put them in a canoe without paddles at low tide and watch them drift off into the sunset.

Who knows, they might just find that missing Aruba gal.

Or the British baby missing from Portugal.

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Gunga Dean said...

And I forgot, your guys have been pushed aside. Our national news is now dominated by Chicago's very own Drew Peterson, and his missing 4th wife Stacy, or his poor unfortunate, "accidentally" drowned-in-a-bathtub 3rd wife.

CNN just asked facetiously "Drew Peterson: The Unluckiest Man Alive?"

Meanwhile, the most corrupt and mendacious president in our nation's history just goes on and on and on with nary a peep from the media.

val said...

OMG - one wife drowned in the bath and the other missing? Who is this man? (Note to self, Google him)

SnarkAngel said...

Typical Chicago cop, Val. We have no Bobby Gorens here to rescue us from the lazy, maniacal, ugly, stupid, and brutal indivdiuals we call "the local police."