HEBER CITY, Utah – Utah authorities say a man who they suspected of faking his own death after he was accused of rape last year has now turned himself in.
The Wasatch County Sheriff’s office says 37-year-old Ted Whitehead of Ballard showed up at the jail Saturday and reported he was wanted on charges of rape and child rape.
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Whitehead was taken into custody without incident.
He was initially charged in April 2016 but disappeared after posting bail in Duchesne County.
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Authorities said he told his mother he would kill himself by jumping off a bridge into the Green River.
Police later searched the area extensively without finding a body, though they did find his car, sandals and an empty whiskey bottle.
No attorney was listed for Whitehead in the court system.
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