People who faked their own death

Samuel Israel III (born July 20, 1959) is an American-born former hedge fund manager for the Bayou Hedge Fund Group, which he founded in 1996.

Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known under the name of Dr.

Prince Georgy Aleksandrovich Gruzinsky (Russian: Георгий Александрович Грузинский; 2 November 1762 – 15 May 1852) was a Russian nobleman of royal Georgian descent.

(For the English footballer, see Vic Rouse (footballer born 1897).) Alfred Arthur Rouse (6 April 1894 – 10 March 1931) was a British murderer.

Audrey Marie Hilley (June 4, 1933 – February 26, 1987) was an American murderer.

The John Darwin disappearance case was an investigation into the faked death of the British former teacher and prison officer John Darwin.

Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr.

Kaycee Nicole, aka Kaycee Nicole Swenson, was a fictitious persona played by an American woman named Debbie Swenson (born Deborah Marie Dickman 1960), in an early case of Münchausen by Internet.

John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 1925 – 14 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson.

Chandra Mohan Sharma (born 1976) is an Indian social activist, who used the Right to Information (RTI) act to fight against illegal encroachments of government land.

Aleister Crowley (/ˈkroʊli/; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

Lawrence Joseph Bader, (December 2, 1926 – September 16, 1966) was a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio, who disappeared on a fishing trip on Lake Erie on March 15, 1957.

Marcus Schrenker (born ~1971) is a financial advisor who lived in Indiana known for attempting to fake his own death due to personal, financial, and legal trouble and for the multi-state, three-day manhunt that followed in January 2009.

David Francis Everett (1962–2013) was an Australian criminal, writer and former member of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and Karen National Liberation Army.

Timothy Dexter (January 22, 1747 – October 23, 1806) was an American businessman noted for his writing and eccentricity.