Raymond Roth, an unemployed telecommunications manager, faked his own drowning on July 28 only to be stopped for speeding in South Carolina.
He certainly isn't the first to try this admittedly drastic way of escaping from the daily grind.
So, we thought we'd take a look at other professionals who faked their own deaths. The culprits span from a British lawmaker to a Colombian doctor.
Marcus Schrenker used a plane crash to fake his death.
Schrenker, a financial adviser from Indiana, was caught up in of legal, financial, and marital problems when he decided to fake his own death, according to The New York Times.
Investors told a judge in 2009 Schrenker had illicitly taken money from accounts, charged outrageous fees, and forged signatures on investment documents, The Associated Press reported at the time.
In January 2011, Schrenker took off in his plane from an Indiana airport en route to Florida.
While flying over Alabama, law enforcement determined Schrenker parachuted from the plane after they found cut lines in tree branches and a parachute that was traced back to Schrenker, CNN reported in 2009.
Police eventually found Schrenker hiding out at a campground in Florida. Schrenker ultimately admitted he called in a fake distress message to air traffic control and had planned for the plane to crash.
He pleaded guilt to destruction of an aircraft and causing the Coast Guard to respond when he didn't help and was sentenced to 51 months in prison, according to CNN.
Hedge fund manager Samuel Israel III faked suicide and quoted the theme from MASH.
Israel was riding high in the 1990s when his company Bayou Funds capitalized on rising technology stocks.
However, Israel lost millions in investor money. To hide the failure, he created a bogus accounting firm to audit the company's financials.
Israel ultimately became addicted to painkillers and turned to shadowy figures who advised him to break the law. He was finally sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to his frauds.
Rather than serve his prison sentence, Israel faked his own suicide, writing the words "Suicide is Painless," on his car, which he left parked at Bear Mountain.
In 2008 he ultimately turned himself after setting off an international manhunt, The New York Times reported at the time.
For more on Israel, check out: The Crazy Story of Samuel Israel, The Ponzi Schemer Who Faked His Own Suicide And Sparked An International Manhunt >
Gandaruban Subramaniam was on the lam for 20 years before getting caught.
Gandaruban Subramaniam, a 60-year-old Singaporean businessman, was being hounded by creditors after his car-rental business failed in 1987.
To escape, his family claimed he was killed by Tamil Tiger rebels. Renuga Devi Sinnaduray, his wife, said he died without leaving a will, allowing her to cash in on three life-insurance policies, the Brisbane Times reported in 2008.
Subramaniam fled to Sri Lanka where he hid for more than 20 years. He was captured when he tried to re-enter Singapore using a fake passport.
Gandaruban pleaded guilty to insurance fraud. Renuga was charged with conspiracy to cheat and served a year behind bars, according to the Brisbane Times.
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