Washington Police Probe Men Living Decades Under Identities Of Dead Children
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The scheme at the heart of this probe grew out of a long-standing vulnerability: identities of children who died young were often unmonitored and easier to repurpose. Paper records and weak cross-checks once let fraudsters reuse those names and Social Security numbers for years. That historical gap created a pathway for people to build long, seemingly legitimate lives on stolen child identities.