A Kentucky man admitted to faking his own death to avoid paying over $100,000 in outstanding child support to his ex-wife, according to a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky late last month.

Jesse E. Kipf, 38, pled guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of computer fraud on March 29. According to the plea agreement, Kipf accessed the Hawaii death registry system in January 2023 using the details of a doctor living in another…