Police arrested John Darwin, the canoeist who reappeared in London after being presumed dead for 5 years, early this morning on evidence that he and his wife faked his death to defraud their life insurance agency. The mysteriously tanned and fit Darwin had claimed to have no idea where he'd been, but photos of him and his wife in Panama surfaced on the Internet, and his wife recently sold their home and moved to Panama.
The photos, taken in July, were posted on a website promoting luxury real estate in Panama. Asked, before the photo was found, how she will handle the return of his life insurance and other benefits, she said, “It is not the money I ever wanted—it was having my husband back." (More missing boater stories.)