Kentucky man sentenced for faking own death to avoid paying child support

LONDON, Ky. ( WDKY ) — A Kentucky man was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison on Monday after hacking the Hawaii death registry systems to fake his death.

According to the Department of Justice, Jesse Kipf, 39, of Somerset, took information from a protected computer system without permission in a scheme devised partly to avoid paying child support.

In his plea agreement, Kipf said he got into the Hawaii Death Registry System and used an out-of-state doctor’s username and password to create a “case” for his death. He then filled out a death certificate worksheet and certified his death himself…

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