A Kentucky man pleaded guilty to charges connected to faking his own death, in part in an attempt to avoid paying over US$100,000 (RM475,050) in outstanding child support payments to his ex-wife.

NBC News reported that Jesse E. Kipf, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of computer fraud, after he accessed the Hawaii death registry system using the credentials of a doctor living in another state. He then created a case for his own death, which led to him being listed as deceased in several government databases.