COLUMBIA, S.C. A South Carolina sheriff is calling him "the ultimate deadbeat dad."
Police say Johnny Martin faked his own death 25 years ago to avoid paying child support. The 58-year-old man has now been recaptured and jailed -- and he now owes more than 30-thousand dollars in child support.
Authorities say Martin escaped from a work detail in 1979 while serving time for failing to pay support for two kids. They say he had a relative call Family Court to report he had died during a bar fight.
Investigators say he'd been living in Myrtle Beach and using real name for about 20 years -- and had a third child. They reopened his case after one of his ex-wives tipped them off that he was still around.
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lmao...
. i want her back now.