Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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For more than 20 years, Ronald L. Fischer vanished after fleeing the middle of his rape trial.

According to federal authorities, he assumed a new identity, reinvented himself as Dr. Richard Graydon, landed a high-profile position as Chief Medical Officer at a Los Angeles biotech company, and lived what appeared to be a successful life- until U.S. Marshals finally tracked him down aboard his yacht, Silver Lining.

In this episode of LA Magazine True Crime investigative journalist Michele McPhee breaks it all down:

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