Florida businessman fakes his demise in international plot

all in Jacksonville, Florida, Newlin Teague was up against the owner of discount furniture stores, his commercials for the Circle-K chain even made him a local celebrity. America we have a choice, we can't save our country and we sell dining tables and bedroom sets made. LAN Tigua very rich you would say he was a millionaire he told me he was he said he had millions Crimewatch Daly sitting with LAN Teague was his wife Daphne in an exclusive interview about the man she thought was her knight in shining armor he was a truly fascinating person , very kind, very considerate.

Daphne Simpson is a deeply religious woman. Her first husband was a pastor, and like many singles, Daphne connected for love in hopes of finding a beautiful heaven through a Christian dating site. It wasn't long before they became a couple. in heaven with the successful Cuban immigrant turned furniture king when I told the girls at work, you know I had dated this particular gentleman and they said, oh my gosh, you know he's so amazing, ya You know, he's a great person here in the community. he contributed to so many charities and everything you know. Daphne who is originally from Texas moved to Jacksonville and when she returned to the Lone Star State to visit her kids they realized she was in love with her new Romeo, I mean she was so giddy and Tell me about this man incredible that he had met and how much he liked him after four months of dating.

Daphne's Cuban Casanova asked the question. He was in his usual grand style at an elegant restaurant with long-stemmed red roses and champagne on ice waiting. Tableside sounds like The Bachelorette TV show, oh right, I know, I was like, wow, he blew me away after dinner. José kneels and out comes the only thing sweeter than chocolate covered strawberries, a five-carat diamond engagement ring, which is a big ring. yeah, it was like I said very Wow, it was huge, very brilliant, your mom was in love with him, oh yes, absolutely, she was, I would say, in love with him and why wouldn't she be.

José was divorced, his children were adults. Daphne says he rolled out the red carpet for his own adult children, even inviting them to move into his mini-mansion on exclusive Fleming Island, an exclusive coastal community about 15 miles from Jacksonville. He brought us all into his fold. To my sisters. He immediately said: "You know." I want them to move here and it's Florida. José even dazzled Daphne and her children with intriguing stories about his past as a high-ranking military officer, but he embellished those stories by saying that he worked with the CIA carrying out top-secret missions in South America.

I was like have you killed people before, what kind of operations did you do for him to tell me in depth that everyone's future seemed bright, especially when LAN Tigua made Circle-k a family business that gave jobs to children, it was a great Brady Bunch in the making. It was like we were a beautiful big happy family, the couple spent their honeymoon in North Carolina where they quickly bought a rustic mountain retreat, beautiful views, I mean it was beautiful, I wanted to start renovating and renovating it, they did , they even built all the things. Panic room like in the movies, a secret lair completely hidden in plain sight, so he had the safe room built so the family would be safe, we could all go there if you knew chaos broke out.

Daphne was living a dream come true. The newly blended family enjoyed the holidays, celebrating the holidays together and welcoming new grandchildren into the world. I mean, honestly, it sounds perfect, yeah, that's what I thought, I thought, wow, and he, you know, told me that we were soulmates, but the dream of a marriage was about to become. a nightmare, says Daphne, just a few months later, José surprises her by telling her that he is dying of a rare condition called CJD, better known as mad cow disease, so he told you he had mad cow disease, yeah How did you explain this? his arms and says I have something I have to tell you I have CJD and I didn't even know what CJD was and he explained to me that it was a brain disease and that there was no cure for it, nothing could be done and that he had maybe 6 months to live. and I remember that I started to cry because we had only been married for a short time and now I think he is dying and that I am only going to have six more months with him Daphne says José told her that he contracted the disease while he was in the army and he had to eat monkey brains while he was on a mission in the jungle, he said that on one of the missions they had done he had to interact with the locals where he had been the guest of honor and therefore he had to eat what they gave him and he had eaten raw monkey brains at that time you talked to the doctor, yes I did and what did the doctor tell you that you had CJD and he would answer any questions you had, we went to an MRI clinic and they did an MRI of your brain.

Did he show you the MRI or any x-rays or anything? I looked at it but I didn't know, I mean, he had a bunch of white spots all over him, so I assumed you know that's part of it. of the illness, Daphne and José went to Miami to break the devastating news to their families, but not long after arriving home, José makes a completely different and even more shocking confession to Daphne, he sat me down and said: there's something to tell you what I needed. to let you know that everything I told you about CJD was a lie and I did it to protect the family and I didn't want anyone to know what the real truth was to protect you sun-lee José writes a dark second chapter of his ancient story He tells his wife Daphne my background is catching up with me José Antigua was considered the furniture king of Jacksonville Florida but he was about to lose his crown he looked incredible and treated me like I was a princess Daphne's Prince Charming was dying, He said it was because of mad cow disease, he explained that it was a brain disease and that there was no cure for it, that nothing could be done and that he might have six months to live, but José's twisted story that He had a mad cow, he only had one death. mistake, it was all nonsense Daphne tells me that José lied about his fatal illness for the craziest reasons.

José told him that his past as a CIA special operations agent south of the border haunted him dangerously; he claimed that a Mexican drug cartel ordered revenge. hit and he needed to protect the family I was terrified but I didn't want my children's lives to be in danger and I believed him because why would you lie about something like that to your wife but how are you about to see them? They were all tall tales Daphne says she had no idea her husband was up to his eyes in debt. His seemingly successful Circle-K furniture chain had been in the red for years.

Do you think at some point in his life he actually became successful and he had a lot of money I don't know again that could also be a lie true I don't know what everything he told me I don't know what is true anymore it seems that José owed millions of dollars to the bank after taking out loans that he couldn't pay instead of declaring in bankrupt. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Devereaux says Jose devised an elaborate scheme to collect more than $8 million in life insurance payments and believes everything will be better, and so does the player.

I'll win the next hand. But it is not like that, and so that the insurance companies would pay the money, José how to fake his own death closed the store and told his family that he was going to Venezuela to receive treatment, but that he needed health of Daphne to achieve it. plan we needed a conspirator, a co-conspirator and she ended up being his wife, but he knew her wife and he knew that if he told her the truth, she wouldn't have joined in, so he tricked her. We have all heard that there is no honor. here among the thieves he had no honor and was very cruel and what he said to his wife to convince Daphne to help him Lanta guo invented a death story so extravagant that it could be torn from the pages of a spy novel Ancient us wife account Daphne My background is catching up to me as I told you I was a Special Forces operations officer who actually took out and murdered a cartel leader in South America.

He was the leader of the team and I need to fake my death now, otherwise my life is at risk. your life and your family too, meanwhile Antigua tricked Daphne's children into believing she was going to Venezuela to receive an experimental treatment for mad cow disease. The cunning scammer even wrote a personal letter to his children preparing for his imminent death. He had left a letter in his personal effects to share with the family saying that he didn't want to die in front of his family, he wanted to be alone so they would remember him as he was, you know, when he was still healthy and wouldn't you know?

Months after disappearing into the depths of the jungles of South America, LAN Tigua drops dead or so she said. At some point, are there any red flags? Oh yeah, all the time, I mean, when you don't see a body and then they just disappear. It's strange, you know, to just disappear than to die in a foreign country, but LAN Tigua moved pretty well for a dead man, while in Venezuela he ends up buying a death certificate, he has a doctor's sign, he ends up also buying a death certificate. cremation. Daphne is instructed to tell children that she is going to fly to Venezuela to collect her ashes, she boards the plane loaded with around $20,000 in cash, what was that money for?

He had told me it was to get the records they needed to prove he was dead. The couple goes to the United States embassy in Venezuela to obtain a death certificate a document Daphne will need to obtain the eight million in insurance he is outside the embassy waiting for you you are inside the United States embassy in Venezuela with his death certificate trying to be approved yeah, wow that really takes a lot to accomplish everything he did. I don't know how you can do what he did and wake up every morning without hating yourself at this point.

Daphne claims that she is just protecting the family and has no idea how to do it. her husband's plan to scam the insurance companies Antigua drags Daphne in Daphne you have to do this if you don't go through everything it will be clear to the sign that I'm not dead but I'm back in Jacksonville while the kids are processing their passage . dad's death Daphne had become a pawn in her husband's evil game you return with a death certificate you return with a box of something that could be dirt but everyone is supposed to believe it is your husband's remains and what do you have a funeral no, his son did a memorial service, he ends up making his wife do all the things a grieving widow would do and it's all a farce and shortly after the memorial service, LAN Tigua miraculously rose from the dead and told him Daphne to hire a lawyer to start insurance claims on seven, that's right, seven policies, how many times do you find yourself in a situation where a person is so bold as to use a federal court, a judge appointed by the President, to basically unknowingly help them in their eight million dollar fraud, does that take some guts or stupidity?

That would be an understatement for his secret hideout in a South American jungle. Ancient Hosea did something that probably no other person on the planet could do. He read his own obituary of him. I started to cry because we had only been married for a short time. Hosea Ancient says he died. but he is the dead man who talks and says that mad cow disease killed him or so he wanted his life insurance company to believe that this is a very unique insurance fraud because to achieve this and be successful one has to cut their bonds and basically being a lone wolf for the rest of their lives and saying goodbye to their family and loved ones and that is a difficult thing to do, if not almost impossible.

The feds say José faked his own death by paying local Venezuelans to create a paper trail and even scamming his wife. Daphne to help him pull off the scam and how long this lie went on for too long, that was the hardest part. I want to lie to my children, my family, but I thought he was protecting them, protecting them, he was made to think. from a Mexican drug dealer with revenge on his mind you think that's how he manipulated you oh I'm sure he knew how much family meant to me and how much I loved my kids and my grandkids and what Daphne did next sounds like a

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pulled out from a hit thriller, we then learn that Daphne travels to the Bahamas on a Carnival Cruise Line that leaves Jacksonville, leaves here twice a week, carried money, met with Lan Tigre and Daphne then returns on the cruise ship at Bahamas, what was that part like? about the plan he had been telling me he wanted me to go see him in the Bahamas he wanted him to have missed me he wanted to see me he said you know just come for a week so we can be together and right now I am madly in love with him and I still don't realizeRealizing what she had been doing, even though Daphne insisted that she was not involved in any scam, she immediately filed claims on José's policy after returning to the United States, which is when the insurance adjusters smelled the scammers. beneficiaries.

They are telling you to pay and the insurance company says you have not proven that your father is dead the only proof that José died is this Venezuelan death certificate that looks official but investigators suspected of insurance fraud plunged into the thick of the jungle in search of the truth first red The flag we had was the fact that mr. LAN Tiwi was apparently not a wealthy person, in fact he had traveled to Venezuela, a country that was basically in a civil war, to obtain medical treatment. The clues Richard Marques and his pee found arranged like breadcrumbs in a fractured fairy tale, another red flag we noticed.

Immediately it was that he had supposedly passed away in a very small town in a remote location about two hours from Caracas and we thought it was very suspicious once we got to the city we discovered that he was supposedly staying in a hostel that they had not been to. in operation for several years, of course, José had no idea that they were following the trail of his cold body, his forged death documents decomposing like a fake corpse in the humidity. Venezuelan heat dies at the scene and it is five days later it is When they cremate a body in five days in the heat in Venezuela it would not be a good place it would blow and smell investigators are told that LAN Teague was taken to the body. 250 miles from where he supposedly died to a crematorium in another city - a further red flag, given that there were dozens of crematoriums closer - the crematorium manager initially told us that he had, in fact, cremated the body after a couple of After days of interviewing him and pointing out some discrepancies he had no choice but to tell the truth that he had never actually received the body, he had never actually cremated the body, that he had swept the floor of some ashes and debris, put it in an urn and sent to the family for the wife and then the first tangible clue that Ancient Hosea is alive, remember that the death certificate investigators discover that it was also fraudulent, it is identified with some ease by someone who knows what they are looking for and that is due because they did not have a notarial process.

In those documents there is a number and it has to correspond to a notary book. They will try to search for a word and there is none in the notary book. They begin to do more interviews and what they can establish is that it is there. The elaborate plan of dead José was about to collapse like a house of cards we can only hit people with one thing the facts and the facts never lie the agents locate the doctor who signed the fake death certificate he threw us out of his office several times times but we kept coming back and finally he told us hey listen well, then the truth is that I never saw this person and I had never met him before.

I never looked into it and the people at the funeral home did me a favor and asked me to sign the death certificate, but I had never met this person in the United States. Daphne says she was still haunted by the specter of the drug cartel at this time. Do you think there are people following you? I was always so paranoid because he was like, "You know you have to do it." Be careful every time I drive I look in the mirror wondering if someone is following me while the lawyers for both sides were fighting over the payment of eight million dollars they filed with a motion in federal court here in Jacksonville for a declaratory judgment Upon discovering that the insurance companies do not have to pay the insurance because he is not dead, they have not provided sufficient evidence of his death, so at that point we know or have firm evidence that he is not dead.

Now the question is where is he. him, but no one really knows where the slippery, fully alive conman is hiding. Hosea Antigua is hidden in his secret hideout in Venezuela. He went through quite a bit of trouble and paid quite a few people who corroborated his story to prove that he really died. away, but now Joseph is about to do something even more dramatic than rise from his own dead ashes, apparently the lord. Len Teague was an extremely compelling narrator as he sneaked back into the US line. Tigua then pays $5,000 to get a boat ride because he is only 60 miles off the coast of Nassau, crosses to Fort Lauderdale, takes a greyhound down I-95 and arrives in Jacksonville. he stays at an airport hotel the next morning Daphne picks him up LAN Teague hides in the couple's mountain retreat located at the end of a long road hidden by tall pine trees his children have no idea about dad's house his wife Daphne had a family visit at that house in North Carolina on Christmas and Thanksgiving and he was staying in a hotel because he was moving so they didn't know he was alive but LAN Tigua apparently saw trouble ahead, remember that the room The panic we are talking about is a safe house.

A safe room, it was called, was something he had insisted on building in the house, the bunker in his basement was designed to withstand a nuclear attack, it was equipped with 20 inch thick steel doors and something like that can come in handy when you're hiding, which is interesting because this house was bought on your honeymoon, yes, and he said he wanted to do renovations, he renovated the whole house, yes, so he was already planning, apparently José then gets busy creating a new identity , applies for a residency in North Carolina. He gets his driver's license using a stolen ID, but his next step in creating a new life will be his last.

He makes a terrible mistake. He applies for a passport to the United States government on his passport application. José uses the name of Ernest Wills, an African-American postal worker. but that was just the beginning of Joseph's mistakes. Jose actually wrote down the address of that mountain house in North Carolina and Daphne as the emergency contact, which turns out to be another dumb move. He had the State Department after him and they knew that the passport was supposed to be delivered to a post office box in North Carolina although he changed his appearance from his passport photo going from gray hair to a brown toupee with a beard. fake goat it seems that three errors was a charm what had happened is that Antigua previously had the passport that presents a passport again, both were handwritten, the same handwritten images come back and match the faces due to the measurements between the nose, eyes and ears, so the hunt was carried out by the federals who carried out secret surveillance in LAN Tigua and after a year and half they finally catch their man, they had been fixing his jeep and when we arrived at the The agents were already there to pick up his jeep and they grabbed him, handcuffed him and arrested him.

Hosea Ancient immediately confesses and confirms. that he is Hosea Ancient, he was wearing a toupee, he had dyed his facial hair, the couple immediately separates for questioning, one of the agents approached me all this time that this has been happening, he has always been telling me, You know, I have to be this person, the identity had supposedly been given to him by the CIA, so when the agent came and said who he is, I did what he had told me to do and I said he was my friend and I told him his name. and the agent looked at me and he said I'm going to ask you again I'm a federal agent you can't lie but I was so terrified and thinking about protecting him and my family I lied again and that's when they arrested me the evidence is overwhelming remember your insurance life policy that is supposedly worth six million turns out that he forged it José actually only had about $38,000 José and Daphne finally pleaded guilty he is found guilty of conspiracy and bank fraud the judge sentenced him to 14 years in prison I think it was well deserved will be when he was 70 years old, when he got out of prison he made a decision, he made a bed that he will have to sleep in and Daphne faced up to five years in prison for conspiracy, she ended up serving 17 months, but even while she was sitting in prison, José I still had La under his spell, my family hired a lawyer to defend me and I sat with him for three hours and told him everything and he kept telling me what Daphne said, it's all a lie, he was fooled and I say no, it's the truth . and you will see because the government will expose it and tell the truth, it is the whole truth.

She was there for months and she believed with all her heart that her husband was telling the truth and she was waiting every day for the CIA to come and fix everything. Do you blame her for getting into this position? You know, looking from the outside in you know how she could be so naive. Why did you let this happen? You should have seen the signs, but being there and in the moment with him and what a great con man he was, he would have fooled anyone even though he served his time. Daphne remains under house arrest and she must wear an ankle bracelet for three months, so Jackie, how far can you go outside here alone?

Well, she can leave just to leave. to church and hopes to find a job so he can somehow pay back the eight hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars that José collected in insurance money, so now your mom has to pay restitution for both of them, which I think is very unfair because Even before meeting José, my mother had a house, she had a home, she had vehicles, she had a career, she had a life together. Daphne is filing for divorce and refusing to answer the dozens of letters he has written her from jail, it's just garbage, it's just garbage. there so that's what I started to return them and just say I don't want it to listen to more lies.

I lied to his wife like he did, that is nothing but cruel and barbaric because it turned her from a person of good character to a person who is going to die as a criminal the ghost of José LAN Tigua finally arrested and as for Daphne the fairy tale is broken her prince charming's glass slipper never fits into the fairy tale does not exist and remembers how Daphne spoke to a doctor and confirmed Joseph's mad cow disease. Well, it turns out she was a real doctor. In fact, Daphne says that José was hoping to use her in his plan to fake his death, but the doctor got scared and backed out at the last minute.