Back then a guy could hitchhike into a town, get a job and rent an apartment under a fake name and live that way for a long time, even formal living like a driver’s license could be pulled off by taking identities from a grave yard.
Yep
One could always start over.
Pity there is no more frontier.
Reminds me of this guy
Infamous Ohio bank robber who vanished 50 years ago ID’ed as dead man
On his deathbed, her father told her a secret: He was a fugitive and had robbed a bank in Ohio
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/03/us/thomas-randele-ted-conrad-bank-robber-confession-cec/index.html