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Hi all! I'm just looking for opinions on whether these are the same person. The older picture is a mugshot of a man who disappeared in 1926 after escaping from an asylum. He was transferred to the asylum after serving about three years of a five year burglary sentence. The newer picture is a picture of my maternal grandfather from a newspaper article in 1947 (sorry for the potato quality). Anyway, my grandfather always said that he had changed his name because he killed a man and we just dismissed it as weird nonsense. But with my DNA results showing no relationship to anyone with his last name, I believe the name change part and the running from the law part were true. DNA matches on Ancestry led me to the Merrithew family and the individual in the mugshot in particular as he has the same birth year as my grandfather and did his disappearing act before my grandfather shows up in any records. So, long story short, with these two pictures, is there any indication these aren't the same man?