Welcome back guys, my name is Danny Burke - thats me - thats my name - I don't have
any other identity.
But some people do, some people lead not one but multiple different lives - they have different
names, different jobs and different reasons for doing it.
Theyre stories are fascinating and a little bit strange - this is the top 10 people who
led double lives …
Starting off at number 10 we have Frank Abagnale Junior.
It might not be fair to say this man led a double life - he led a lot more than that.
As a teenager in the 60s, he used fake names and dodgy checks to commit serious bank fraud,
earning him thousands of dollars.
At the age of just 16, he managed to fool an airline into letting him fly as a co pilot
- he eventually clocked over a million miles with them.
He then continued to use his fake identities to become a teacher, then a doctor and then
finally an attorney - none of which he was qualified to do.
Age 22, he was eventually caught by the FBI in France printing out fake checks.
He was imprisoned for 12 years and then released on the condition that he would help the FBI
catch other criminals like him.
His autobiography was turned into the the 2002 movie -Catch Me If You Can- starring
Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hanks.
Next up at number 9 we have Anna Chapman.
In 2010, a whole load of Russian spies and operatives were exposed in the US.
One of them was Anna Chapman - or as her family in Russia knows her - Anna Vasil-eevena Kush-yenka.
She set up a real estate business in New York which employed 50 people.
She dated a local restaurant owner and lived a normal American life - nobody suspected
she was actually a Russian operative.
Even her own American husband had no idea.
When she was finally caught, some er intimate pictures from her Facebook made their way
around the internet.
She posed for Playboy and then was traded for American prisoners.
Upon returning to Russia, Anna was showered with medals and awards.
My life isnt quite as exciting as that, I have to admit.
Next up at number 8 we have John Wayne Gacy Jr.
If you lived in Illinois during the 1970s you might have known this man as a respected
businessman, a community activist and also a clown.
He went by the name -Pogo The Clown- and would entertain kids at their parties.
However, this wasnt his double life.
During all this time, he was actually a serial killer.
From 1972 - 1978, he killed an estimated 33 teenage boys and young men - many of them
were tortured as well.
He became known as the Clown Killer and was eventually caught, sentenced to death and
executed.
Coming in at number 7 we have John Leonard Orr.
This one is pretty crazy.
John was a fire captain and fire investigator in LA during the 70s and 80s.
It was his job to figure out how fires started and how to prevent them in the future - and
he was very good at it, receiving multiple promotions.
Well, incredibly, it turns out that a lot of those fires were being caused by John Orr
himself.
By day he would investigate fires and by night, he would start them.
The fires he started resulted in millions of dollars of damage and claimed the lives
of 4 people.
He was eventually caught thanks to a fingerprint found at the site of a failed fire.
He was sentenced to life in prison.
Next up at number 6 we have Jake Rush.
He was a straight shooting conservative Republican who was known in Florida as an attorney, a
Sheriffs deputy and a congressional candidate.
Oh and he was also a cocaine vampire.
I forgot to mention that.
Thats right - Mr Rush was part of The Minds Eye Society - a group of adults who acted
out their make believe fantasies away from the public adult.
The character he played and wrote about was called Chazz Darling, a vampire rapist who
loved cocaine.
Now - some people might say hey, every adult has a right to be as messed up as they want
behind closed doors and while you could argue that - Mr Rushs political opponents jumped
on this story when it came out and tore him to shreds.
They really sank their teeth in.
Like vampires.
Coming in at number 5 we have Matthew Kaye.
He was a high school teacher in New York who started skipping work in 2004.
The school just thought he was sick but it turns out he wasnt sick - he was taking time
off to be a wrestler.
He went by the name Matt Striker and this character would fight people in the ring - AS
A TEACHER.
At one point he even appeared on WWE Smackdown - amazingly - nobody at the school noticed,
for months - even though he was appearing on TV.
When they finally found out, he quit his job and went full time as a wrestler.
Thats a hard act to follow for the next teacher …
Moving on to number 4 now we have Leland Yee.
He was a California Senator who made a name for himself speaking out against gun ownership
- after a mass shooting in 2013, he said there was nobody in California should own an assault
rifle and no further discussion was needed.
A year later, Mr Yee was arrested after he was found by the FBI to be a part of a criminal
gang that smuggled guns into America.
I mean, you really couldnt write this could you?
Apparently he was gun smuggling so that he could pay off his campaign debt after running
for mayor.
I havent checked yet but I don't think he won.
Next up at number 3 we have Atilla Ambrus.
He was a hockey player in Hungary.
His position was in goal and the truth is - he wasnt very good.
Maybe he just wasnt putting in as much practice as his team-mates!
- To be fair, he was a little busy because when he wasnt playing hockey, he was a bank
robber known as the Whiskey Robber.
In 1983 alone he robbed 29 establishments and would often leave flowers behind as a
sort of apology to the staff.
The government wasnt very liked at that time so the Whiskey Robber became a kind of Robin
Hood hero to the people.
He was eventually caught in 1999 and released in 2012.
Apparently he now makes pottery.
Of course he does.
Thats the next logical step after hockey player and bank robber …
At the number 2 spot we have Tore Hedin.
In 1951, the Swedish town of Saxtorp was being plagued by an axe murderer.
The people put their trust in Police Officer Tore Hedin to solve the case.
He was the best person in the world to figure out who that axe murderer was - because it
was actually him.
He had been committing crimes in the town for 8 years that led to the murder of a man
who was actually a friend of his.
A while later, his girlfriend dumped him and Hedin lost it - he kidnapped her and threatened
her life.
The Police fired him.
Then he lost it even more killing his parents, his ex girlfriend and 5 people in an old peoples
home.
Finally, he drowned himself in the lake and left a note behind explaining that he was
the killer.
I think at that point people were probably starting to have their suspicions …
And finally at number 1 we have Reverend Shaun Harrison.
As you might tell from his title, this man was a Christian minister.
He also worked as a school Dean and anti-violence activist.
And at the weekends, he mainly just, you know, worked as an enforcer for local drug dealers.
He had a bunch of younger drug dealers working under him.
He managed to hold down all these jobs for a while before getting in trouble for pushing
a student.
They were just about to fire him from the school when something a lot worse surfaced
- a video of him shooting a student in the back of the head.
You heard me right.
The student was one of his dealers and luckily - he survived.
Reverend Shaun Harrison was swiftly arrested and convicted.
For the shooting not the pushing.