Man Fakes Own Death to Avoid Upcoming Wedding

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

Tucker Blandford, 23, met his bride-to-be, Alex Lanchester, in August 2012 at a college in Connecticut. They hit it off and quickly fell in love.

Lanchester, from the United Kingdom, was studying abroad for a year. When that year was up, they shared a tearful goodbye at the airport, where Blandford got down on one knee and proposed.

They were to be married on Aug. 15. Lanchester spent over $1,000 on wedding invitations, the photographer, the wedding dress, and other preparations. Blandford even booked a venue on the campus where they had met.

Then one day Lanchester got a phone call from a man identifying himself as Tucker's "dad," saying his son had been depressed and had "thrown himself in front of a car," ending his life.

Devastated, she called Tucker's mother to offer condolences. Tucker's mother told Lanchester that her son was in fact alive and well.

Tucker later admitted that he had impersonated his father on the call. He told a reporter at the UK's Daily Mail: "I'm a terrible, awful person. I know I shouldn't have told her I was dead, but I didn't know what else to do. Alex is an amazing girl, but I got scared and wanted to get out of the relationship."

Lanchester is moving on from all this and is back in the United States, traveling.

She's handling this well, but what do you think about how this guy avoided his own wedding?

brii · ‎06-20-2010

He handled that rather badly.

I hope she's counting her lucky stars he decided not to go through with getting married. Who knows what he could have done when they had kids or something.

stilltamn8r · ‎03-14-2010

" So now I'm praying for the end of time...to hurry up and arrive, cause if I have to spend another minute with you, I don't think that I could really survive!!" WHO knew it was a true story when Meatloaf sang it?????

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

She dodged a bullet!

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

It never occurred to him that she might call his parents or want to attend his funeral? What a doofus.

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

Yes...she is lucky.....I'm with terrier - she dodged a bullet!!!

Deb1010again · ‎05-28-2013

On 8/20/2014 tansy said:
It never occurred to him that she might call his parents or want to attend his funeral? What a doofus.

Exactly. She certainly did dodge a bullet with this one.

I'm sure she'll find another guy and years from now will thank her lucky stars things turned out the way they did. Meanwhile, I hope the next woman Tucker approaches knows how to google.