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Police have captured Arwyn Carr in Flagstaff, Ariz. Carr, 43, faked his death five years ago while awaiting trial in Florida on child molestation charges. “This is one of the most unusual cases I’ve worked,” said Florida state investigator Bill Gootee, who has been working the case. “Most of them just run.” Carr faces life in prison over the original charges. Meanwhile, Arthur Gus Bennett, 45, facing a Marine Corps court-martial for raping several children, including his own daughter, had faked his death five years ago by killing a homeless man and leaving the body in his home, which he set on fire. He too was recently found alive, in Utah, and was awaiting transfer back to the Marines when he was found hanging in his jail cell, dead from apparent suicide. (AP) ...If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.


Publication Date: 1 August 1999

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