Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!In the 1970s TV’s Reggie Perrin tried to escape his humdrum life by faking his own death and leaving his clothes on a beach.But the behaviour of Leonard Rossiter’s hilarious BBC character echoed the strange real-life case of the British Member of Parliament John Stonehouse who pretended to have died off the coast of Miami in Florida.Now two new books by family members are being published with different theories about the truth behind the bizarre episode.Here JAMES MOORE reveals what happened and looks at other infamous cases of people who tried to disappear without a trace.When the wreckage of a red kayak was found off the coast of County Durham in March 2002 it was presumed that prison.
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