The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

The extraordinary true story of the Canoe Man, John Darwin, and his wife Anne Darwin, who together perpetrated one of the most elaborate, devastating and surreal fake death frauds of all time. Faking his death in a canoe accident off the coast of Seaton Carew, North East England, John lived for five years undetected in a bedsit connecting to his wife's bedroom. Both of them reaped the rewards of his life insurance and plotted a new life together in Panama. All the while their two adult sons believed John to be dead. But soon it all unravelled. A darkly comic true crime story of a coercive marriage and an unforgivable betrayal.