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...Darwin, an avid outdoorsman, was, "going stir crazy" trapped in the house, she said. In 2004, the Mirror reported, the couple decided to move abroad. Darwin obtained a passport under the name of John Jones, and traveled to Cyprus and Gibraltar before the couple settled on an apartment in Panama...
...leak. Medical experts noted that Darwin's symptoms didn't square with those normally manifested by amnesia victims. But the thread that untangled the story was a photograph that Britain's Daily Mirror unearthed of the couple on the web site of a company specializing in relocating foreigners to Panama, where Anne Darwin settled this fall. She quickly conceded that the snapshot, taken when the couple traveled to the Central American nation to seek housing in 2006, was authentic...
...latest in the series of hairpin turns saw Darwin's wife, Anne, admit that she knew her husband, who was declared legally dead in 2003, has been alive and well. Anne Darwin, who abruptly decamped for Panama six weeks ago as police were quietly investigating suspicious activity surrounding the Darwins' finances, conceded that a photograph taken of the couple in Panama City was authentic. That July 2006 snapshot was unearthed by The Daily Mirror, a British newspaper, which pulled it from the web site of a company that assists foreigners relocating to Panama to find housing. "I guess that picture...
...prison officer and science teacher is in custody with Cleveland, U.K., police, who handled the initial investigation into his disappearance. Depending on what charges are leveled, Darwin could face up to ten years in prison, Russell Hayes, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service, told TIME. While Britain and Panama have an extradition treaty, Anne Darwin indicated she would willingly return home to "face the music." "I don't want to live my life as a fugitive," she told reporters, noting, "The game is up." She added that she originally believed her husband had drowned, and only discovered...
...weeks later. Despite this evidence, suspicion lingered that there was something incongruous about an experienced kayaker drowning on a day when the sea was, in the words of one member of the rescue effort, "smooth as a millpond." Even before it emerged that the Darwins had reunited in Panama, his aunt, Margaret Burns, 80, told the Evening Standard newspaper, "To be honest I don't believe he ever got wet." She may be right...