Well, if he was not hiding under assumed identity, then finding him ought not have been a problem. Couldn't the state request a copy of hius federal tax return and find it from there? They knew his SS#, right?
hius=his. Adjacent keys.
Pretty much what the decision hinged on. They tried to send two certified letters to the house, but since he didn't live there, he couldn't sign and they went undelivered, and a small notice in the legal notices section of a local paper didn't suffice either. If they'd just sent a normal letter it would have gotten to him.