Molly and Clay Daniels, a couple from Leander, Texas, robbed the grave of Charlotte Davis, placed her body in a car with some of Clay's belongings, pushed the car off the road and set it on fire in the hopes of collecting $110,000 in life insurance money upon Clay's supposed “death”

The couple initially succeeded in the scheme, with family members identifying items from the car as belonging to Clay, but were eventually caught by authorities and charged with insurance fraud, arson, and desecration of a cemetery ¹⁾

John Darwin faked his own death in 2002 with the help of his wife Anne

The couple lied to their two sons and the world, and claimed the life insurance money

In 2007, John turned up at a police station claiming he had amnesia

The story became known as the “Canoe Man” and the couple were caught and convicted of fraud ²⁾