A cash-strapped businessman torches his home, then massacres five people to keep witnesses from testifying. A cop shoots himself to steal workers' comp money. Two scammers stuff a coffin with a mannequin and cow parts to invent a dead person for a million-dollar life-insurance payout.

These are among the extreme schemers elected to the Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame sponsored by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.

The Hall of Shame annually "dishonors" the year's most brazen, vicious or klutzy convicted insurance criminals as a way to brand insurance fraud as a socially offensive act by detailing true-life cases and the damage they cause.

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