TGIT GEOFFS!! This week your favorite gruesome twosome are back and better than ever! We’re giving you a part two of people who faked their own deaths and it’s craaaaaazy. We’ve got an obituary that was a lil premature, one full of lies and so much more…including some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!!! Let’s GOOOO!

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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/posthumous-postcards-9.7081752

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fraudster-faked-his-death-but-left-fingerprints-851999

https://www.businessinsider.com/people-who-faked-their-own-deaths-2012-8#a-man-faked-his-own-cremation-only-to-get-caught-after-he-remarried-his-wife-6

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/628283187/?match=1&terms=%22alan%20abel%22

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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.4829798/the-ny-times-wrote-his-first-obit-in-1980-but-prankster-alan-abel-died-last-week-at-94-1.4829804

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/1176956188/?match=1&terms=%22john%20darwin%22

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