The Story of James Hogue

James Hogue was arrested during his geology class on a fugitive warrant from Utah. He told authorities that he just wanted a fresh start and an education without the burdens of his past. In 1999, a former classmate and filmmaker named Jesse Moss tracked Hogue down in Aspen, Colorado for a documentary titled Con Man. James had stolen more than $50,000 in gyms, mineral specimens, microscopes and other equipment from the Harvard Mineralogical Museum where he had been working.