Joseph Newton Chandler III

Robert Ivan Nichols, alias Joseph Newton Chandler III, 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; they discovered that he had stolen the identity of the real Chandler who died in a Texas car crash in 1945 at the age of eight. The lengths to which Nichols went to hide his identity had led to speculation that he was a fugitive.