Word: darwin
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...year-old was taken into custody overnight by the Hampshire Constabulary in southern England. His arrest is the latest twist in the mysterious reappearance of a man who was presumed drowned in the North Sea in March, 2002. A frenzied search for Darwin - which included a helicopter and nearly a dozen ships and canvassed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea - yielded no traces of the former prison official. When his shattered red kayak washed ashore without its captain, it seemed, surely, to spell Darwin's untimely demise...
...missing man, who was declared dead in 2003, 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...
...Darwin's re-emergence over the weekend was a heart-warming - if baffling - turn, but the police suspect Darwin may turn out to be more criminal mastermind than medical mystery...
...press conference Wednesday, Tony Hutchinson, a spokesman for the Cleveland, U.K. police force, said the investigation into Darwin's disappearance had been rekindled three months ago, when police were alerted to "suspicious" activity surrounding Darwin's finances. Darwin's wife, Anne, told The Daily Mirror, a British newspaper, that she had collected life insurance payments from her husband's death, and acknowledged that sum might have to be repaid. "It's one of the things I'm struggling to come to terms with," she told reporters. This fall she sold two seafront properties the couple owned in Seaton Carew, near...
...Many experts in medicine and criminology are skeptical of Darwin's story. How could a man who professed having no memory for such a prolonged stretch suddenly gain such awareness of his circumstances? "It doesn't fit into anything I've ever heard of," Dr. Ashok Jansari, an expert in the neuropsychology of memory at the University of East London, told TIME...