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Back from the dead?

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EASY US

How much should a man have to pay for leaving his wife and two sons and disappeari­ng for more than 20 years? A US judge says $1.86 million. That’s how much Richard Hoagland must give the family he left behind in 1993. Police now know that he stole the identity of a dead man and started a new life under that man’s name. He married again, had another son and bought a home on the coast of Florida. It was the dead man’s family who discovered Hoagland’s crime in 2013 through ancestry.com Since then, Hoagland has been in prison for two years; and he has been sued by his first wife and divorced by his second wife, who knew nothing of his crime.

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