Word: amnesiaize
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...cardinal rule in police work is that the simplest explanation is often the correct one. But that maxim has been obliterated in the case of John Darwin, the missing British kayaker who surfaced this week, claiming amnesia, more than five years after vanishing in the North Sea. In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target...
...abruptly materialized on Saturday, when he presented himself to police and said, "I think I am a missing person." Darwin was able to state his name, address and birth date, but claimed he had no recollection of the past five years. He later amended the time frame for his amnesia, telling family members he could not remember anything since a vacation to Norway in the summer...
...suddenly materialized, Darwin's family expressed elation that he was alive at all. "It's very good news," Darwin's 90-year old father, Ronald, told TIME. The elderly Darwin has said his son was hit by a car as a child, and suggested he may have incurred amnesia from the ensuing head injury. Darwin's own adult sons told the BBC that when they met their father this week, he told them that he couldn't recall anything since June...
...reappearance raises many questions. Not least among them: how does a man suffering from amnesia for such a long stretch suddenly become conscious that he is a missing person? And why would his vital details, which had ostensibly eluded him for so long, suddenly come rushing back? Dr. Ashok Jansari, an expert in the neuropsychology of memory at the University of East London, says, "It's perfectly possible that during a boating accident he suffered a head injury and developed some amnesia as a result of that." He added Darwin could be suffering from a mixture of organic amnesia, which...
...Jansari indicated it was "pretty rare" for individuals to feign amnesia, and that such a decision was usually born of financial incentive, which Darwin does not appear to have. Some members of the rescue effort, however, harbored suspicions about Darwin's disappearance when he turned up missing, said David Young, a ward council member in Seaton, near where Darwin lived. Young said while boats were combing the shores looking for the missing man, local fishermen said the location where Darwin's kayak washed ashore defied tidal patterns. The turbulent sea had also been unusually placid that day. "It didn...