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Joseph Newton Chandler III was an American author, journalist, and editor. He was born in New Albany, Indiana, and attended the University of Louisville. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, and later worked as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal. He wrote several books, including The Road to the White House (1956), The American Political System (1962), and The American Presidency (1966). He was also the editor of the Louisville Times from 1965 to 1972.
Chandler was married to Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Chandler, and they had two children. He died on October 15, 2002, at the age of 76.
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Robert Ivan Nichols |
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76 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
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12 September, 1926 |
Birthday |
12 September |
Birthplace |
New Albany, Indiana, U.S. |
Date of death |
(2002-07-23) Eastlake, Ohio, U.S. |
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Eastlake, Ohio, U.S. |
Nationality |
United States |
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Joseph Newton Chandler III Height, Weight & Measurements
At 76 years old, Joseph Newton Chandler III height is 5ft 7in .
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Who Is Joseph Newton Chandler III's Wife?
His wife is Laverne Kort (m. 1947-1964)
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Laverne Kort (m. 1947-1964) |
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3 |
Joseph Newton Chandler III Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Joseph Newton Chandler III worth at the age of 76 years old? Joseph Newton Chandler III’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United States. We have estimated
Joseph Newton Chandler III's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In late 2016, the 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 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.
In 2014, at the request of the local police, Peter J. Elliott, United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, reopened the Chandler case. Based on DNA extracted from a tissue sample from a Lake County hospital, a CODIS profile was generated, but no hits were found. In 2016, he asked forensic genealogist Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick to compare Chandler's Y-STR profile obtained from a tissue sample to the public Y-STR genetic genealogy databases. A match indicated his possible surname as Nicholas or Nichols. In 2018, Fitzpatrick and Press's organization DNA Doe Project used autosomal SNP analysis, with bioinformatics analysis of the DNA results performed by Full Genomes Corporation, and the use of GEDmatch, a public personal genomics database, to find DNA matches, to identify Chandler as an engineering draftsman from New Albany, Indiana, named Robert Ivan Nichols. A CODIS match with Phil Nichols, Robert Nichols' son, confirmed the identification.
His body was discovered in his apartment on July 30, 2002. He was believed to have killed himself about a week earlier; he had shot himself in the mouth with a .38-caliber Charter Arms revolver he had purchased a few months earlier. On his calendar he had marked down the days until his suicide, and before he shot himself he closed the blinds and turned off the air conditioning. He had recently been diagnosed with colon cancer, which may have influenced his decision to end his own life.
He had $82,000 in his bank account and had listed his co-workers as emergency contacts. His identity theft was revealed only when authorities could not find any relatives and discovered that the real Chandler had died decades prior. Authorities were unable to find any usable fingerprints to assist in identification and were able to get a DNA sample only after discovering he had visited a Lake County, Ohio, hospital for colon cancer surgery back in 2000.
Nichols was described as being a hermit who left his home only to go to work and eat. Co-workers have said he rarely talked to anyone and appeared to have few or no friends. In one instance at a Halloween gathering in 1992, he came to the event dressed as a gangster, yet talked to no one the entire night. He also took part in behavior perceived as eccentric and unusual, such as listening to white noise for hours, and once drove 700 miles (1,100 km) to an L.L. Bean store in Maine, only to promptly turn around and drive back to Ohio after discovering that there were no spots available in the store's parking lot. In 1989 he arrived at a local hospital with lacerations to his penis, claiming to have received them via a vacuum cleaner. He also had a knack for tinkering, and made homemade electronic devices. He had a computer that he occasionally used, which was accidentally broken by the first set of investigators who worked on the case. According to these investigators, searches related to Nazism and "plastic explosives" were found on his computer.
Investigators are also following a potential link to the unsolved 1989 murder of Amy Mihaljevic.
Nichols stole Chandler's identity in September 1978 in Rapid City, South Dakota, after applying for a Social Security card. He then moved to Cleveland, where he briefly worked for the Edko Company, an engineering business. Nichols later worked as an electrical designer and draftsman for Lubrizol, a chemical company headquartered in Wickliffe, Ohio. The company laid him off in 1997. He had claimed to have a sister named "Mary Wilson"; however, the address he provided for her in Columbus, Ohio, was fictitious. It was eventually revealed that Nichols was actually born at the same address in New Albany.
Nichols married Laverne Kort in 1947. They had three sons and Nichols worked for General Electric as a draftsman. In 1964, Nichols left his wife and sons and filed for divorce the same year. He moved to Dearborn, Michigan, where he told his parents that he worked in the automobile industry. In March 1965, he wrote to his parents that he had moved to Richmond, California, and he also sent a letter to his son Phil from Napa, California, the same month. His family never heard from him again and they reported him missing in 1965. When the family used detectives to attempt to find him in California and Indiana, they were unable to turn up anyone who knew him. Nichols worked using his real name until about 1976 according to the US Internal Revenue Service.
Joseph Newton Chandler III (March 11, 1937 – December 21, 1945), born in Buffalo, New York, was eight years old when he was killed in a traffic accident along with his parents in Texas on December 21, 1945. Reports differ on whether the accident took place in Sherman or Weatherford.
Robert Ivan Nichols, alias Joseph Newton Chandler III (September 12, 1926 – c. July 23, 2002), was a formerly unidentified American 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.
Robert Nichols was born on September 12, 1926, in New Albany, Indiana, to Silas and Alpha Nichols, who had four boys. He joined the US Navy in World War II and served as a firefighter on the USS Aaron Ward, which was bombed by the Japanese in May 1945 off Okinawa. He was wounded in the back and hip by shrapnel and awarded the Purple Heart. He burned his uniforms after the war.