John Darwin lived rough for a while after faking his death. Then he stole the identity of someone called John Jones, died as a baby. He used John Jones's birth certificate to obtain false documents. Within a month of his disappearance, John returned to their home. To disguise his identity,he grew his hair and a straggly beard,and acquired a limp. He was so confident that he could outsmart everyone that he continued to walk around disguising him self with a woolly hat.