so this guy his name's Jose and Jose's got a big problem he's dead super duper dead now how did he get so dead well see Jose is a millionaire he owns a chain of discount furniture stores called Circle K furniture and he puts himself in all the commercials so he's kind of a local celebrity stand with us at Circle K bye American but then one day it all changes cuz Jose meets this woman Daphne and Daphne thinks his old ass is F so they fall in love and they get married and they seem happy here's the thing about Jose though Jose is a Furniture salesman so he's kind of a bullshitter he loves to tell stories about how he was in the military and how he's a super secret special ops officer and how he worked with the CIA on top secret missions yeah sure you did Jose regardless Daphne loves him and she believes his stories and everything seems to be going well for them until while Jose projects the image of being a millionaire and owning this successful Furniture business in reality he's kind of broke his stores haven't been profitable in a while in fact while he claims to be a rich man he's actually more than $1 million in debt and I guess rather than admit to Daphne that he's not really a millionaire and that his businesses are failing one day he comes up with a different kind of plan to get himself out of debt he plans to die well not exactly die he he plans to fake his own debt so he sits his wife Daphne down and he tells her he's dying and he says he's dying from mad cow disease which is a brain disease now how did he get mad cow disease well Jose tells Daphne that he got it while he was in the military on his super secret special ops missions where he got to work with the CIA all right I got I got to pick you up for this so this freaking bullshitter tells his wife and kids and everyone that he got mad cow while on a special ops mission in the jungle and that part of his mission was that he had to interact with the locals in the area and that one of the things the locals did in that jungle was eat raw monkey brains so he says he ate raw monkey brains in the jungle and that this gave him mad cow disease it's just so [ __ ] stupid the variant of mad cow that humans get is very rare and it'll kill you within like a year so if Jose really had it he would have died within like 12 months of Contracting it not 30 whatever years later after he left the military got married and started a chain of discount furniture stores so anyway he goes and tells Daphne he only has 6 months to a year to live and of course Daphne believes him and she is devastated I mean she can't lose her husband I mean they just got married not too long ago but he tells her that there may be hope because his only chance of survival is that if he leaves the US and goes to Colombia and gets some kind of experimental medical treatment and of course Daphne believes him and they like go as far as to break this devastating news to their family and their friends it's crazy now in reality he's not going to Columbia to get some experimental medical treatment Jose's plan is to go to Colombia without Daphne and while he's there he's going to pretend as if he died during surgery getting this experimental medical treatment and there he can get a fake death certificate and everything and then everyone back home will believe he's dead and bam he'll be out of debt now unfortunately for him all of that is not what happens see Jose knows a doctor in Colombia who is going to help him with this scam but that doctor suddenly gets nervous and backs out at the last minute so this terrible plan falls through and now Jose's like ah SH now I got to come up with a new plan to fake my death and he does he comes up with Plan B but in this plan he's actually going to involve Daphne so he goes to Daphne and he sits her down and he says heyy remember how I said I had mad cow disease uh well I don't I had to make all that up to protect you and protect myself and protect our family from danger he tells her that back while he was in the military on his super secret special ops missions helping the CIA that while he was there he actually un alived a dangerous cartel leader on one of his missions in South America a long time ago and that now the cartel is suddenly seeking revenge on him which of course means now he and his family are in danger and he tells Daphne that he needs to fake his death in in order to protect her and him and the rest of the family and again of course Daphne believes him she's actually like oh what can I do to help so now together they come up with a new plan to fake his death so first he takes out seven life insurance policies on himself allegedly they take out $9 million in life insurance policies on Jose hoping to collect it after he dies so they plan to not only try to erase all of his past debt by faking his death but they're going to try to get rich in the process so anyway he takes all these life insurance policies out on himself then he flies to Venezuela because I guess he has contacts there now he flies there and he buys a fake death certificate and a fake certificate of cremation a few weeks later Daphne meets him there and she applies for a certificate of death abroad using the fake paperwork that Jose just got then she flies back to Florida where they're from and she tells everyone that Jose died while in Venezuela on the operating table getting this experimental medical treatment for his mad cow disease and everyone back home is devastated they have like a memorial for him and everything and then around that time the life insurance money starts coming in and Daphne collects about $870,000 meanwhile Jose travels from Venezuela all the way to the Bahamas then there he pays a local fisherman $5,000 to smuggle him from the Bahamas to Florida in a fishing boat then he meets up with Daphne and they drive from Florida all the way up to a cabin in the mountains in North Carolina a cabin they had bought years before and in that cabin they hide out for two whole years and Jose changes his name he changes his whole look he dyes his facial hair and he starts wearing a toue he even applies for a North Carolina driver's license using the stolen ID of a man named Ernest wills and it works like Jose gets one then a few two months later he applies for a passport using that nnest Wills driver's license he just got but when the state department gets his application for the passport an employee notices something weird on it Ernest Wills the real Ernest Wills already had his information in the federal database like the government already had a file on him including his photo and wouldn't you know it the real Ernest Wills looks nothing like Jose because the real Earnest Wills is a black guy and is actually 8 in taller than Jose so the state department Flags this application as being suspicious and of course the application has Daphne listed as an emergency contact and has her real contact information on it so the FBI starts investigating her and they piece everything together little by little and 6 months later boom they arrest Jose here's his mug shot and they also arrest daffne here's her mug shot and they both get charged with insurance fraud and a bunch of other stuff and they're both thrown into in jail here's the crazy thing though while in jail Daphne still thinks Jose is ex-military super secret special ops who works with the CIA and she legitimately thinks that any minute now the US government is going to step in and bail them both out and her attorney and everyone else around her are like no Daphne Jose isn't super secret special ops he's just a liar but whatever she's in jail continuing to believe him so she sits there in jail for 16 months before they finally convince her that her husband's story is [ __ ] so Daphne finally takes a plea deal and she basically gets 5 years probation while Jose pleads guilty and he gets 14 years in prison