For more than two decades, Richard J. Hoagland, left, used the identity of commercial fisherman Terry Jude Symansky, who died in 1991.
An Indiana judge awarded nearly $2 million in back child support to a woman whose husband — who disappeared in 1993 and was thought to be dead — was arrested in Florida two years ago on an identity theft charge, the Journal Gazette reported.
Hamilton County Superior Court Magistrate William Greenway and Judge Jonathan M. Brown said Richard J. Hoagland owes his ex-wife — Linda K. Iseler — more than $1.86 million, including nearly $1.4 million in interest charged to payments he should have been making since 1993, according to court documents.
Hoagland had been considered dead since 2003, according to court documents.
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