faked death

A instant-classic British tabloid story has origins in the U.S., right here in our very own Connecticut! Suck it, Florida, we don't need you to get weird anymore.

After reportedly sending wife Evana Roth threatening messages for exposing him, Roth has turned his ire toward his son, Jonathan, who claims he's in hiding because his dad has been leaving him threatening, profanity-filled voicemails.

More details have emerged about Raymond Roth, the Long Island man suspected of faking his own drowning last weekend, and they make him out to be quite the gentleman.

"I was planning for a funeral," Evana Roth, 45, said at a press conference today apologizing to everyone who helped search for her presumed drowned husband last weekend. "I thought I'd lost my husband."

A former city school employee has been accused of faking her daughter's death in order to extend her Costa Rican vacation in March 2010—and she allegedly had her daughters help with the plot.