Kentucky man admits faking death to avoid child support payments

PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. — A Kentucky man has admitted to hacking into multiple government and business computer networks and faking his own death to avoid paying child support.

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Jesse Kipf, 39, was initially charged with multiple counts of fraud and identity theft, according to WKYT in Lexington. Pulaski County officials offered him a plea deal, which allowed him to plead to a single charge each of computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.

According to federal authorities, Kipf last year used the credentials of a doctor living in another state to access Hawaii’s death registry database and used it to create a fake death certificate for himself. He used the certificate and other forms of stolen identification to avoid paying more than $100,000 in child support.

He faces up to five years in prison as part of his plea deal, court records show.

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