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...John Darwin, the missing kayaker who stunned England by walking into a London police station more than five years after he vanished, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, police said Wednesday...
...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 is sparked by physical stresses like head injuries or epileptic seizures, and psychogenic amnesia, which arises after an emotional disturbance. "The bit that doesn't make sense is how he was able to walk into the police station now," Jansari says...
...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...
...Abrupt departures, meanwhile, appear to be a family trait. According to reports, Darwin's wife Anne, 55, moved to Panama City recently, after selling the second of two seafront properties the couple owned in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool. That sale fetched more than $600,000. The Guardian, a British newspaper, quoted one of Mrs. Darwin's neighbors as saying she had left the house full of furniture. "It was as if she had gone out shopping. It's just unbelievable...
...interview six months after her husband's disappearance, Anne Darwin indicated she presumed her husband was dead and sought the closure that came with that knowledge. "I have no reason to think he would have left and stage-managed this," she reportedly said. The questions that lingered then have been supplemented by new ones, as the husband she saw swallowed up by the sea has emerged once more, whole and unharmed but still awash in the unknown...