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Insurance fraud plot led Vietnam woman to cut off her limbs

August 30, 2016August 26, 2016 Julie Campbell

The woman has admitted to paying for an amputation to be able to make a claim on a policy. A Vietnamese woman has now admitted to a gruesome form of insurance fraud. In order to obtain a payout on a policy she held, police say she claimed to have been hit by a train. In truth, she had paid to have her foot and part of her arm cut off. The woman was thirty years old at the time and pretended to have been struck by a passing train. Ly…

Suspicious insurance policy purchases may offer evidence in murder case

January 4, 2016January 3, 2016 Julie Campbell

A police chief accused of murdering his pregnant fiancée purchased massive amounts of coverage beforehand. In South Dakota, a former police chief has now been accused of the murder of his pregnant fiancée in what had previously appeared to be a hunting accident but that has since turned suspicious when it was discovered that more than one life insurance policy was purchased only a few months ahead of the death. Over $750,000 in life insurance coverage was taken out by the couple months before she died. The man in question,…

Man pleads guilty to murder in life insurance fraud case

July 31, 2014July 31, 2014 Julie Campbell

The individual has admitted to helping a friend kill his wife in order to claim the policy’s benefits. A DNA match in evidence from a murder case has led a man to plead guilty to having helped his friend to kill his wife so that benefits could be claimed on the life insurance policy that had been taken out for her. Initially, Dellendo Campbell had thought that he was not going to be caught for his involvement in the murder. The reason that Campbell believed that he wouldn’t be caught…

Life insurance fraud in Georgia ends in the death of a toddler in a hot car

July 8, 2014July 5, 2014 Julie Campbell

The father responsible for leaving the child in the overheated vehicle allegedly had a plan to collect. New information has now been revealed about the Georgia man, Justin Ross Harris, who has been charged with the murder of his toddler son by leaving him locked inside a hot car all day, as it has been discovered that the man had provided family members with instructions regarding the collection of two life insurance policies that had been taken out on the child. The documents with this additional information on the case…

Life insurance fraud sends man to jail for murdering his son

December 19, 2013December 17, 2013 Julie Campbell

A New York man who killed his son to be able to collect benefits payouts has been sentenced to prison. A man named Karl Karlsen, who, in November, pled guilty to a charge of second degree murder of his son in order to commit life insurance fraud, has now been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The man was able to collect the payout of $700,000 on his son’s policies, as he was the beneficiary. Karlsen, 53 years old, admitted to shifting a truck off a truck under…

Utah life insurance scam involved a man murdering his wife

December 11, 2013December 9, 2013 G. Turner

Conrad Truman has been accused of killing his wife in order to receive her benefits payouts. A man has been charged with a vicious form of Utah life insurance fraud that involved murdering his wife in order to be able to collect on her policy benefits of over $800,000. The man cried over her body in the hospital but was then said to be acting strangely and obstructed justice. After Conrad Truman killed his wife for her Utah life insurance, Heidy, a victim advocate reported that his behavior, attitude, and…

Life insurance payout behind woman’s intention to kill her husband

November 21, 2013November 19, 2013 Julie Campbell

A mother of two in England hired a hit man to murder her husband so that she could claim on his policy. In East Yorkshire, England, a 36 year old woman named Lisa Fairpo has been accused of hiring a man to kill her husband so that she would be able to collect on his massive life insurance policy. The intention was to murder her husband so that she would be able to use the payout to avoid bankruptcy. The case is now before the court and has revealed that…