Following is a teaser from a fascinating article posted at the May 31, 2018 Chicago Tribune website.
In 1993, Richard Hoagland seemed to be living the good life. He had a young wife and two sons, Matthew and Douglas. Business was good enough at his insurance company to pay for a five-bedroom house outside Indianapolis, a speedboat tied up at a nearby lake and a closet stuffed with designer suits.
Then he went AWOL.
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Then in 2016 a phone call from police in Florida alerted the family Hoagland was alive and living under a dead man’s name. An Ancestry.com search had been the first step in uncovering a skein of lies that would eventually land Hoagland in prison…
As police would later piece together, after fleeing in 1993 Hoagland made his way down to Florida, where he eventually rented an efficiency apartment from an older man named Edward Symansky.
Read the full article and view video at the Chicago Tribune website.
