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High-Living Fugitive Brits Starved on Getaway Yacht

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 24, 2009 7:56 AM CDT

(Newser) – A pair of British fraudsters who enjoyed a "champagne and cocaine lifestyle" spent their last days drinking sea water and urine on a stolen yacht, an inquest was told yesterday. The bodies of the couple, who stole a boat and became fugitives while awaiting... Read full story »

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