A handful of Americans have risen from the legal dead in recent decades. Ben Holmes, an Ohio auto mechanic who had been framed for arson, is probably the best known (and certainly the most bizarre) case. He faked his own death in 1980. His wife, who seems not to have known he was still alive, had him declared legally dead eight years later. Holmes reappeared to his wife?his widow, legally speaking?in the late 1990s, but by that time she was seeing another man. After he interfered with the affair, his ex-wife shot him in their home and outed him to the authorities. There is no record of Holmes moving to reverse the legal death ruling; he seems to have simply gone on with his life as if the order was never issued. Nor did he try to reclaim property that his wife inherited after his legal demise. Holmes did, however, get a settlement from his former wife for shooting him.
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