# What is the name of this murderer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 30, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015 "2008-11-30T03:34:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/1 "2008-11-30T03:34:33Z")

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He killed his own wife and kids and fled to mexico where he passed himself off as a reporter from the New York Times(?) He chose to pose under the name of a real reporter. Not only that but he lived rather well and began a relationship with a female photographer who thought she had really gotten lucky to be working with this well-known reporter. Meanwhile the real reporter had gotten sacked.

Somehow the whole thing came out and he ended up in prison. The now-unemployed reporter whose identity he had stolen interviewed him and wrote a book about him.

That’s all I remember.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/2 "2008-11-30T03:44:30Z")

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Salon has a great account of it [here.](http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2005/06/15/finkel/)

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/3 "2008-11-30T03:46:14Z")

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[Christian Longo](http://lmtonline.com/news/archive/011602/pagea11.pdf).

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/4 "2008-11-30T03:47:28Z")

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It’s Longo.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/5 "2008-11-30T03:48:21Z")

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> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> It’s Longo.

I knew that, but my fingers didn’t.

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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/6 "2008-11-30T05:25:41Z")

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The edit makes that exchange nonsensical. Confused me for a second.

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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-murderer/475015/7 "2008-11-30T14:59:43Z")

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Thanks, all.