Kipf, of Somerset, Ky., must also pay more than $195,700 in child support debt and damages he inflicted to government and corporate computer systems. Advertisement ...

A Kentucky man was sentenced to nearly 7 years in prison after hacking state systems to fake his death, in part, to escape child support payments, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.. Jesse ...

A federal judge sentenced a 39-year-old Kentucky man to 81 months — six years and nine months — in prison for faking his own death to avoid paying over $100,000 in child support.

Now, Kipf has agreed to pay $195,758.65 in damages, including the child support owed to his ex-wife and nearly $80,000 to repair damage to the state death registries.

A Kentucky man who hacked into state death registry systems to fake his own death in a bid to avoid paying over $100,000 in outstanding child support has been sentenced to over six years in prison ...

A Kentucky father has been sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison after admitting he faked his own death to avoid paying more than $100,000 in child support payments, authorities said ...

A man who formerly lived in Columbia, Missouri, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession of child sexual abuse materials — 15 years after he admitted to the crime.

A man from Kentucky didn’t want to pay more than $100,000 in child support so he hacked into a death registry and faked his own death. Now Jesse Kipf will be serving more than six years behind bars.