Noela Rukundo

Noela Rukundo is a Burundian-Australian woman who became notable for crashing her own funeral. In January 2015, she was presumed dead after her husband, Balenga Kalala, secretly paid several gunmen to kill her while she was in Burundi for her stepmother's funeral. However, unbeknownst to Kalala, the gunmen had refused to kill Rukundo, though they told him they had. They released her two days later and gave her evidence to incriminate her husband for his plans to have her murdered.

Following Rukundo's own funeral in February 2015, where Kalala told attendees that she had been killed in a tragic accident, she arrived at the couple's house in Australia unannounced to confront him. Kalala was later charged with incitement to murder and sentenced to nine years in prison.