John Darwin disappearance case is one of the most popular and richest Prison Officer who was born on August 14, 1950 in Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom.
John Darwin was born on 14 August 1950, in Hartlepool, County Durham. He attended St Francis RC Grammar School and De La Salle College, Salford, Lancashire, where he studied biology and chemistry. On 22 December 1973, Darwin married Anne Stephenson in Blackhall. Darwin then taught science and mathematics at Derwentside for eighteen years before leaving to join Barclays. He later became a prison officer at HM Prison Holme House. Darwin and his wife, a doctor’s receptionist, also ran a business renting bedsits in County Durham with twelve houses. They ran into debt after purchasing two houses in Seaton Carew in December 2000. The debts caused Darwin to talk about faking his own death to claim the insurance by early 2002.
During the years that Darwin was presumed dead, he lived for some time in a bedsit next door to the family home; he then secretly moved back in with his wife Anne in February 2003. Meanwhile, a death certificate was issued stating that Darwin had died on 21 March 2002. This allowed his wife to claim his life insurance; it is alleged that £25,000 was paid out from Unat Direct Insurance Management Limited (part of the AIG insurance group) as well as a much larger amount which paid off the £130,000 mortgage. Sometime that year, a tenant of the block of bedsit flats that the Darwins owned, Lee Wadrop, recognised Darwin and asked him, “Aren’t you supposed to be dead?” to which Darwin replied, “Don’t tell anyone about this”. Wadrop later said that he had not told the police because he “did not want to get involved”.
A police investigation discovered that Darwin had been using a false passport by the name of “John Jones”, an identity that had belonged to a baby from Sunderland who had died in 1950. Upon examining the false passport, police found that Darwin had made several trips to Panama in the previous five years.
