We've all heard the expression "fake it till you make it", right? Well, Jean-Claude Romand did just that for 18 years, but never truly made it. Instead, he chose to murder his entire family rather than face his own shame and lies head on.
Sources:
1) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48790276
2) https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jan/13/weekend7.weekend1
3) https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=honorscollege_cj
4) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2072025/
5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Romand