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Anesthesiologist on the Run for 20 Years | Birmingham News
A fugitive anesthesiologist who vanished for two decades after being convicted of sexual assault in 2003 has finally been caught—off the coast of New York and New Jersey, living on his $1.4 million sailboat under a fake identity. Ronald Fischer, a Cornell grad and former Brown University instructor, tried to reinvent himself as a hematologist-oncologist, even interviewing at major pharma companies. His downfall came when investigators traced his custom-built yacht to a “Dr. Richard Graydon” with no medical license or address history. Now seventy, Fischer faces life in prison for fleeing…
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