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It's the story of John Darwin, who faked his own death with the help of his wife Anne, in order to claim his life insurance and avoid bankruptcy.
On 21 March 2002, Hartlepool prison officer John Darwin went out in his canoe. When he missed his shift at work and didn't return home, the alarm was raised ...
โThere's only one sensible thing to do,โ declares John Darwin (Eddie Marsan) early in The Thief, His Wife, and the Canoe. Darwin and his wife Anne (Monica Dolan) ...
John Darwin pretended to die at sea โ then spent years in a secret room in his house while his sons mourned. As The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe brings the ...
Teacher John Darwin was last seen paddling out to see in his kayak in March 2002. Later that day he was reported as missing after failing to turn up to work.
John Darwin's bungled "disappearance" is now the subject of an ITV drama. But it wasn't as laughable as it seemed to those he left in his wake.
ITV's latest true-crime drama retells the unbelievable story of John and Anne Darwin's attempted fake death scam.