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Dead Man Driving

A Warrenton, Virginia, motorist was sentenced to two years in prison for faking his death three times to beat drunken-driving charges.

Peter Gentry, a 41-year-old financial planner, got caught after a police officer who made one of the drunken-driving arrests spotted him running a stop sign after Gentry had supposedly died.

He was first arrested in 1991, but an official-looking death certificate sent to authorities said he had died in a Los Angeles auto crash and the case was dismissed.

A year later, Gentry was arrested again and supposedly died this time of "denzor hemorrhagic fever" in Africa. There is no such disease. (as reported in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday, July 26, 1998).


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