http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052804722.htmlhttp://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100526/US.Murdered.Boy_s.Identity/Clues are emerging about the past of an Oregon man whose true identity has been revealed after he claimed to be an Ohio boy killed in a kidnapping nearly 30 years ago.
So far, investigators have learned Doitchin Krasev went to college in North Carolina in the mid-1990s and lived in Colorado before moving to Oregon.
Krasev had claimed to be Jason Robert Evers, a 3-year-old boy who was killed in Cincinnati in 1982. But a passport application check led to his arrest last month during a national investigation that finally turned up his real name on Thursday.
"We've been relentless," said Patrick Durkin, special agent in charge of the San Francisco field office for the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. State Department. The San Francisco office began a program called "Operation Death Match" in 2005 to compare passport applications and state death certificates, leading to convictions against more than 120 imposters.
Durkin said Friday that investigators are still following up leads on Krasev on the East Coast.
The Washington Post reported on its website Friday that Krasev came to the United States from Bulgaria after his parents consented to let him live with Michael Horowitz, former general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration, and his wife, Devra Marcus, a physician.
The McLean, Va., couple told the newspaper Krasev's parents were intellectuals that Horowitz met while studying the effects of communism in Eastern Europe and they wanted a better life for their son. They said Krasev lived with them for two years in the early 1990s, graduated from Georgetown Day, a prestigious high school in Washington, D.C., and earned a scholarship to Davidson College in North Carolina before he disappeared.
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