[Re-Post] In Love With a Dead Man? The True Love Story in Burl Barer’s MAN OVERBOARD

Originally posted June 29, 2015 by Burl Barer

Here is a picture of the loving couple. Barb Fraley and Phil Champagne. Phil, age 84, look[ing] real good for a dead guy!

Barb Fraley fell in love with Harold Stegeman, who treated her like a queen, provided for her six kids, and built her a new home and her own restaurant. The restaurant went bust, the couple went broke, and then one day at a pancake house, Barb was arrested for passing a counterfeit $100 bill. The next thing she knew, Harold was arrested. Then she discovered that Harold wasn't really Harold—he was Phil Champagne, a man who died in 1984. Strange but true...

[Update] Phil Champagne, 87, passed away at his home Friday, July 21, 2017. Read his obituary here.

Learn more about this outrageous true story in the 20th Anniversary edition of MAN OVERBOARD: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne available in trade paperback, ebook and audiobook!

The book is also available in MURDERERS' ROW, Volume Four: A Collection of True Crime by New York Times Bestselling Author Burl Barer. Out 10/3/2023!

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