Finally this week, a former high-level Iowa hospital IT worker who had assumed Woods' identity for decades pleaded guilty to two federal charges. That man, 58-year-old Matthew David Keirans, who ...

Finally this week, a former high-level Iowa hospital IT worker who had assumed Woods' identity for decades pleaded guilty to two federal charges. That man, 58-year-old Matthew David Keirans, who ...

In fact, though, the man working for the hospital — at an annual salary of more than $140,000 by the end of his tenure, officials say — was an entirely different person, Matthew David Keirans.

Last week, the culprit — Matthew David Keirans — pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution and aggravated identity theft ...

Keirans, however, spent the next 40 years living as William David Woods, racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and bought a car under his unsuspecting victim’s name.

But over the next two years, Keirans, who left New Mexico a short time later, fully assimilated Woods' identity, calling himself William — sometimes Bill — Woods. In 1990, court records show ...

Over the next three decades, Matthew David Keirans would trade places with William Donald Woods, steal his identity and send Woods down a path to spend more than 400 days in jail.