Summary
JOHN DARWIN threatened to kill himself if his wife refused to go along with his doomed plot to escape soaring debts by faking his death in a canoe accident.
In his secret memoirs - written behind bars and smuggled out of prison - the 59-year-old describes in detail the night he issued her with the ultimatum.See the full content of this document
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Help Me Fake My Death or I Will Do It for Real ; Canoe Man's Threat to Wife Revealed in Memoirs Written in Jail [Scot Region Edition 2]
Unable to bear the social stigma of bankruptcy, Darwin told 57- year-old Anne that he could either fake his own death or commit suicide.
Ignoring the misery it would heap on to their two grown-up sons, and fearing that he would kill himself, she finally agreed to go along with h...See the full content of this document
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