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Edward Helmore

Kentucky man admits to faking own death to avoid paying child support

small bunches of flowers on small graves on a green hill with brown wooded hills in the background
Graves on a hillside in Kentucky. Photograph: Jeff Swensen/The Guardian

A man in southern Kentucky has admitted in court to faking his own death to avoid paying more than $100,000 in outstanding child support to his ex-wife.

Jesse Kipf, 39, pleaded guilty on 29 March in federal court to computer fraud and identity theft after he accessed Hawaii’s death registry system and posed as a doctor from another state in order to create a fake death certificate for himself.

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