Hiding Out Right Next Door

What her kids didn’t know was that John was really alive, and that wasn’t the only thing. He was actually living in a bedsit located right beside their mom’s home. And he knew he couldn’t be seen by any of the other tenants so he would end up hiding in passageways when outside his attic apartment. He eventually moved back to his house with his wife in February of 2003.

Being Declared Legally Dead

Eventually, a death certificate was issued which said that John Darwin had died on March 21, 2002. And once Ann had that in her hands, she could finally follow through with their plans of cashing in on John’s life insurance policy. Ann was able to use the money to pay off their debt, as well as figure out where she and John would eventually move, which was far away from their seaside England home.