Seattle child abuse suspect faked death by jumping off bridge then lived in LA

Christian R Basham spent his life as Mark Clemens, a building maintenance man, after police presumed he was dead

A man suspected of child sexual abuse feigned his death by jumping off a Seattle-area bridge nearly two decades earlier – then spent the final years of his life under an alias and working as a Los Angeles apartment building maintenance man, according to authorities.

The stunning truth about Christian R Basham surfaced after the Los Angeles county medical examiner’s office investigated his 26 February death.