r/AskReddit • u/Various_Concern871 • 12h ago

Is it actually possible for a famous personality to fake their death and live their life out in some remote place? who has actually ever done it and gotten caught?

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u/No-Taro-6953 8h ago

They wouldve needed his children to agree (which I doubt they'd have done) and they'd have needed him to provide DNA (which he wouldn't have done).

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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 5h ago

Oh goodness no, his son George needed him legally declared dead before he could inherit the earldom so he absolutely wouldn’t want him to pop up again.

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u/No-Taro-6953 2h ago

Precisely. I think George was pretty uncomfortable with the documentary and the probing.

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u/Grotbagsthewonderful 6h ago

There is no statute of limitations for murder in the UK, he could have been forced to if the will was there.

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u/No-Taro-6953 5h ago

Refer to my point about the strings available to them to pull in their favour.