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 ...

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 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 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 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.