In December 2007, 57 year old John Darwin walked into a police station in London, claiming to have no memory of who he was or where he’d been for the past five years. But as the police began to investigate Darwin’s story everything began to fall apart.
This week Taylor and Kat take a break from murder tales to investigate the story of Hartlepool’s canoe man and Kat reminisces on this bizarre tale of fraud that took place just down the road from her hometown!
FURTHER READING:
Sea Search for missing canoeist - BBC News
Timeline of the case - BBC News
Body missing at sea, secret door and false identity: scam that almost paid off for the canoe couple - The Guardian
John "Canoe Man" Darwin: The full story - The Northern Echo
Canoe man "stole dead baby's identity to get false passport - Evening Standard
Family of John Jones still waiting for an apology - Hartlepool Mail
Entry in Marine Register
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119: The Chameleon Killer
118: Bear Brook & Forensic Genealogy
117: The Axeman of New Orleans
116: The Mad Bomber
115: La Voisin
114: The Pink Panthers
113: The Hollywood Blacklist
112: LISK (Part 2)
111: LISK (Part 1)
110: DB Cooper
109: The Lufthansa Heist
108: The Mysterious Death of Alfred Loewenstein
107: The Montauk Project
106: The Lost Cosmonauts
105: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
104: The Green Children of Woolpit
103: Inventing Anna
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102: The Disappearance of Louis Le Prince
101: The Mysterious Death of George Reeves
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