What's up you guys, I'm Haley, and I'm Andrea, and this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast.

Alright, happy Monday everybody. Hope you guys all had a great weekend or a great day or

week or whatever when you're listening to this. Yeah, but welcome back and today we're going to be talking about a very strange

disappearance case and I actually recently heard it on another podcast and needed to know more. So I just started digging into it.

And it's just it's a pretty crazy story. So alright, with that on December 1st, 2007, John Darwin walked into the West and Central

Police Station in London, England. Darwin had been missing for over five and a half years and now he was back with no memory of what happened to him.

So where he'd been and how did he get back? Yeah, let's find out. John Darwin was born on August 14th, 1950 in Hartlepool, Durham, England.

He attended Daila Sal College in study biology and chemistry after which he went on to teach science and mathematics.

So he was a teacher for a while. He actually taught for 18 years and then he wanted something new with his life. So he decided to leave his job and begin working at Barclays, which is a big bank in Britain. Yeah.

And I couldn't find out exactly what he did there, but it's kind of that's kind of like a big career move going from teaching math and science to working at a bank. Yeah.

In 1973, Darwin married and Stevenson and the couple went on to have two children, Mark and Anthony. After some time working at the bank, he once again wanted to change his career.

And he became a prison officer at HM Prison Home House, which is a category C men's prison in Durham. He is just bouncing all over the spectrum. He's getting a little taste of everything.

He really did and the couple also ran a couple businesses on the side and worked as a doctor's receptionist. And then on the side, they also ran a business of renting bedsits.

So for those of you who are not from England and you know, don't know what a bedside is, it's basically like kind of a hostile slash like boarding house where people can come stay. They have their own room and then share a bathroom.

But I think it's less for travelers and more for like residents.

Oh, okay. But the Darwin had several of these properties. So they owned a lot of property and were operating these.

John Darwin also did a whole bunch of different side hustles at one point. He was like selling garden gnomes. He did a lot of doing things.

But by December 2000, the Darwin's were running into some debt.

John was really set on desiring on desiring on developing a large property portfolio. And he believed that this was how the family would climb away from their debt.

So, yeah, I mean, yeah, investing in property is the main to do it. Yeah. Yeah. And so they amassed a lot of 14 properties using what John called creative accounting.

Oh, okay. Yeah. I had a family. I was going to go that route.

So they kept getting properties and you know, they were operating them, but they were struggling to actually turn a profit.

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