Joseph Newton Chandler III, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Newton Chandler III

American Identity Thief

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1932

Place of Birth: New Albany, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: electrical engineer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Robert Ivan Nichols, alias Joseph Newton Chandler III (September 12, 1926 – c.
July 23, 2002), was a formerly unidentified identity thief who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio, in July 2002.
After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash in Texas in 1945.The lengths to which Nichols went to hide his identity led to speculation that he was a fugitive.In late 2016, U.S.
Marshals Service, Cleveland, Ohio announced that forensic genealogist Dr.
Colleen Fitzpatrick of Identifinders International had compared the then-unidentified man's Y-STR profile to public genetic genealogy Y-STR databases to determine his possible last name was "Nicholas".
In 2017 Fitzpatrick along with Dr.
Margaret Press formed the non-profit DNA Doe Project, which revisited the case by analyzing the man's autosomal DNA using the same methodology they used in identifying Marcia King and Lyle Stevik.
In March 2018 the DNA Doe Project identified the man as Robert Ivan Nichols.
The U.S.
Marshals Service announced the identification at a press conference in Cleveland on June 21, 2018.