My Family Faked Death, I Start Over
They were both dressed in their burial shrouds, their faces streaked with ashes from the furnace, making them look almost comical.
Witnessing this, the relatives' first instinct was to bolt, but the thought of those hundreds of thousands of dollars made them stop in their tracks.
Then one relative, an uncle with a bit more backbone, stepped forward and asked, "What's going on here, Mrs. Cooper Senior? You ought to let us know if they're actually dead or still alive!"
Jesse lost her composure and snapped, "What do you mean, 'dead or alive?' How am I not alive? How could you people just stand by and let them send us into the furnace?"