1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Gampsy Media charge Lash. 2 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 2: Hello, Crime Listenation. I have a special treat for you today. 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: It's our fourth bonus episode. We had so much fun 4 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: with this week's fake death stories that we just couldn't stop. 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: We had to go on, so we gave Rory a 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: little homework. What are we doing here? Lane? 7 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 3: This week we have a top five and Rory is 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: gonna shirt with us. That's right, Josh and every listener 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 3: out there, We've got a top five fake deaths coming 10 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 3: at you. Here we go number number one through five. 11 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 3: But Joan of Leeds was an English nun who faked 12 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: her death because she kind of hated being a nun. 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 3: It's pretty relatable. In thirteen eighteen, she feigned deathly illness 14 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 3: and made a dummy of herself. Her colleagues buried her 15 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: dummy in holy ground, meaning either one her dummy was 16 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 3: exceptionally realistic, two her colleagues are really dumb slash gullible 17 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 3: and have terrible eyesight. Or three they're cool as hell 18 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,559 Speaker 3: and help Joan get away with this. When the Archbishop 19 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 3: of York found out about this, historical records do not 20 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 3: show who snitched on her, he wrote a letter to 21 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 3: local religious authorities, telling them to keep an eye out 22 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: for a rogue nun. The archbishop didn't know why Joan 23 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 3: ran away, but had no issue speculating she was seduced 24 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: by indecency. She involved herself irreverently and perverted her path 25 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 3: of life arrogantly to the way of carnal lust and 26 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: away from poverty and obedience. She was accused of living 27 00:01:53,320 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 3: with a man. How scandalous? All right? Number four or two? 28 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: All right? Our next greatest Top five Fake death David Freeland. 29 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 3: David Freeland was a former New Jersey senator who faked 30 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 3: his own death via scuba diving accident in nineteen eighty 31 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 3: five while awaiting trial on racketeering charges. Friedland had taken 32 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 3: painkillers before diving with a friend and never came back 33 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 3: up to the surface. His body was never found, and 34 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 3: a warrant was issued for his arrest. Two years later, 35 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: he was arrested in the Maldives, where he'd been working 36 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 3: as a scuba dive instructor as well as an owner 37 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 3: of a chain of scuba gear shops. He clearly had 38 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: a lust, a carnal lust for scuba diving. He'd been 39 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: living under the alias of Richard Smith Harley Great Choice. 40 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 3: He traveled around the world before settling in the Maldives 41 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: and did little to lie low, including posing for a 42 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 3: postcard in which he was in scuba gear feeding a 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: live shark with food held in his own mouth. He 44 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 3: eventually was returned to the United States and served nine 45 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: years in prison. Friedland died in twenty twenty two. 46 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 2: Wow, how is that not a movie? 47 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 3: I mean, the guy it's who what did he get 48 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: caught up in? Where he just cause like, you know what, 49 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 3: I just I always wanted a scuba dive, and I 50 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 3: chose senator and then I chose crime. Also, what is 51 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: that like? You come back up with a group and 52 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 3: they're like, you know, I lost them, Dave, I don't 53 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 3: know what, Dave. We were all swimming together and then 54 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 3: he was like, I'm gonna go feed a shark with 55 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 3: food in my mouth and we're like what Rory number 56 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: three Friedrich gulda. I think I'm saying that right. If 57 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 3: you're a listener and you know, call in, let us 58 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: know what A pair of tickets to How to Fake 59 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: Your Own Death, the live musical production by Josh and 60 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: Rory Friedrich Goulda also known as the Terrorist pianist was 61 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 3: a classical and jazz composer and pianist. He was known 62 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 3: for his unorthodox practices. He won perform completely naked with 63 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: his wife, improvising and shouting about being mad. In nineteen 64 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: ninety nine, news agencies announced the death of Friedrich Gulda. 65 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 3: Shortly after that news report was retracted, Goulda had faked 66 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: his death, faxing his own death announcement from the Zurich 67 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 3: airport to promote a concert at which he was about 68 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 3: to be resurrected. The Resurrection concert sold out. Goulda died 69 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: a year later on Mozart's birthday, something he said he'd 70 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: always wanted to do. 71 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: Do you think performing nude is why they called him 72 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 2: the Terrifying Penis? 73 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 3: And maybe you misheard it. I love that he once 74 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: performed completely naked with his wife, improvising and shouting about 75 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 3: being mad. It's like that's how we all make love, right, 76 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 3: is that not? That's not specific to him? The next 77 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: one when Alister Crowley was an English oculist and author 78 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 3: known for practicing sex magic. 79 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, occultist, I believe. 80 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 3: Oltist, I know, I said oculist. Yeah, he's actually an optologist. Yeah. 81 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 3: In September nineteen thirty, Crowley, then fifty four, traveled to 82 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 3: Portugal with Honni Jaeger, a nineteen year old German woman 83 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 3: who was his newest romantic interest and sex magic partner. 84 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 3: Soon after they arrived in Portugal, Crowley and Jaeger's relationship soured. 85 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 3: He complained about her in his diary, writing about her 86 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 3: pathological fear and lyne. After a fight between the two 87 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 3: of them, Jaeger left Portugal in a huff, so Crowley 88 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 3: decided he'd fake his own suicide. It'd be a publicity stunt, 89 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 3: mostly designed to annoy Yaeger, According to one biography on Crowley, 90 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 3: Crowley picked a cliff formation just west of Lisbon called 91 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 3: Boca do Inferno for his suicide. His suicide note was 92 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 3: addressed to Yaeger, I cannot live without you, he writes. 93 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 3: Crowley slipped off to Spain, where he got to read 94 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: about his tragic death in the papers. Three weeks later, 95 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 3: he made his grand reappearance in Berlin, Alive and Well 96 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: and Finally. Harry Gordon was a once successful businessman who 97 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 3: faked his own death in two thousand in hopes to 98 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 3: benefit from a multimillion dollar insurance payout. His abandoned boat 99 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 3: was discovered in a river north of Newcastle. After an 100 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,119 Speaker 3: investigation in April two thousand and one, the coroner ruled 101 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 3: that Gordon had drowned. Gordon spent the next five years 102 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 3: living as Rob Matzel, complete with a new passport and 103 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 3: blue contact lenses. He spent time on the Spanish coast, 104 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 3: then in England working at a potato crisp warehouse, before 105 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 3: settling on New Zealand. Gordon as Rob met and married again. 106 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 3: He still had a wife back in Sydney. It was 107 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 3: on his honeymoon with his new wife when he just 108 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 3: happened to run into his brother. His brother, thinking Gordon 109 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 3: had drowned years ago, asked, is that really you? Gordon said, 110 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 3: of course, and told him now was not the time 111 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 3: to talk. By the time their honeymoon had ended, Harry 112 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 3: Slash Rob was nabbed at the airport before he could 113 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 3: board a plane home. Gordon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to 114 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: commit fraud and was sentenced to fifteen months in jail. 115 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 3: Gordon's wife back in Sydney, Sheila, was charged with conspiracy 116 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 3: because she had known about Gordon's scam all along. She 117 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: served five months of home detention. 118 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 2: Wild how similar that is to our British one, Like, yeah, 119 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: wife is in on it. The alter ego is ridiculously obvious, 120 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 2: like see someone he knows. 121 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 3: And also similar goals. I mean, Rob was like I 122 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 3: just want to pretend I'm dead and finally work at 123 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 3: a potato crisp warehouse like we've all dreamed of since 124 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 3: we were children. There you have it. Top five fake deaths. 125 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 2: If you plan to fake you're a death someday, you 126 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 2: now have plenty of ideas, but ideally you wouldn't. People 127 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 2: would be sad. We'll see you next week.