Death Defiers

characters who were presumed dead. Y&R

Victor Newman

“Succumbed” to poisoning in 1983. Presumed dead from a fiery car crash in 1993 while driving through Kansas.

Believed to have drowned during a boating accident in 2008 while confronting his late wife Sabrina’s murderer, Walter Palin.

Declared blown to pieces in an explosion on the docks of the Los Angeles Harbor in 2012.

Faked a fatal overdose of prescribed medication in 2019 in order to out Adam for drug tampering.

Traci Abbott

Believed to have perished in 1983 when a drug dealer forced her and Danny Romalotti to swallow a lethal dose.

Paul Williams

Faked his suicide (with Victor’s help) in 1989 after he was framed for murder to search for the real killer.

Christine Blair

Played dead when David Kimble 60 shot her with a gun filled with blanks during a masquerade ball in 1991.

Lauren Fenmore

Believed to be on a yacht that exploded in 2005, but was whisked away in the nick of time.

Nick Newman

Aboard the Newman private jet when it crashed into Lake Michigan in 2007, but was found injured weeks later.

Sharon Newman

“Perished” in a car accident while fleeing from the law in 2011 — but it turned out the body found was of a female carjacker.

Phillip “Chance” Chancellor IV

“Mortally wounded” by the gun of FBI agent Ronan Malloy in 2010, but was really under witness protection.

Adam Newman

Falsely identified as a burned body following an explosion in 2010 at the GCAC.

Believed to have drowned after his car plunged into an icy river in 2014.

Reportedly died when a cabin where he was hiding out blew up in 2016.

Chloe Mitchell

Declared dead from a 2017 “suicide” that was staged with Victor’s help.

Cane Ashby

Thought to have taken a bullet to the chest in 2011, but it was really his twin brother, Caleb.

Sheila Carter

Let everyone think that the incinerated remains of a city gas worker was her in 1992.

Believed to have perished with Lauren Fenmore in a boat explosion in 2005.

Struck dead by Lauren’s gun in 2007, but turned up on B&B in L.A. in 2017.

Katherine Chancellor

Presumed killed in a fire at the sanitarium where she was committed in 1979.

Lost at sea in 1980 after she jumped off a cruise ship in a failed suicide attempt.

Thought to have died in a car crash in 2008, but it was actually her look-alike Marge. Phillip Chancellor III

Confirmed as deceased after a car accident in 1989, he paid off the coroner so no one would know he was gay. He returned from Australia and came out to his family in 2009.

Hilary Hamilton

Presumed dead after a plunge off a cliff in 2015, but miraculously survived.

Drucilla Winters

Fell from a cliff in 2007; no body was recovered.

Good Mourning: Just before Victor showed up alive in 2012, (from l.) Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott), Abby (then-emme Rylan),victoria (Amelia Heinle), Billy (then-billy Miller) and Nick (Joshua Morrow) gathered at his grave.

Gun Play:to fool the bad guys in 2010, Ronan (Jeff Branson, l.) and Chance (then-john Driscoll) staged a carefully orchestrated shoot-out.

Dead End: Katherine (Jeanne Cooper) survived a horrific car accident in 2008, but Marge wasn’t so lucky. Look Out Below! Drucilla (Victoria Rowell) took the plunge in 2007, and hasn’t been seen since.

Just Kidding: Kevin (Greg Rikaart) was stunned to discover that Chloe (Elizabeth Hendrickson) was alive.