Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations · James Wolner | Investigative Journalist & Creator of Dakota Spotlight

The Kid from the Cafeteria - A Story of Stolen Identity

·40 min·3 clips
An 11-year-old boy identified his assailant as William T. Borum, but it was actually Raymond Matzker.
This episode investigates how Raymond Matzker stole the identity of his college acquaintance Bill Boren and used it to secure jobs in child welfare while committing sexual offenses against minors. Through interviews and research, it reveals systemic failures in background checks and the lasting impact on the victim.

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A patient identity mystery that opens into a child-abuse case and fugitive trail.

Dakota Spotlight takes an identity mix-up and lets it open into something wider and uglier. A man charged under one name is later identified as someone else, and a child abuse case and an old bail-jumping fugitive trail end up folded into the same story.

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A child sexual-abuse case, a stolen identity, and an FBI fingerprint analysis that flips the suspect on its head.

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