Just as the writers' strike starts to wipe out the prime time TV schedule, along comes the curious case of John Darwin to give us a real-life soap opera plot. Darwin, from a small coastal town in the U.K., was declared dead four and a half years ago after an apparent canoeing accident. On Saturday he walked into a police station very much alive, claiming he couldn't remember anything since 2000. A heartwarming story of the lost being found? Maybe not.....
Because it turns out his wife knew he was alive all along. She was forced to admit it after British newspapers published photos of them on a Panama beach together. Darwin has been arrested on suspicion he may have faked his death. And the couple's two sons say that if all they're hearing is true, they want nothing to do with their parents. We still don't know why he vanished or where he's been.
Can't you just picture this story coming to the small screen?
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This story is too Law & Ordery to be a good Law & Order episode. It would be like a fifth remake. Maybe the show's detectives could set off a hunt for members of the mysterious "Black KKK".