http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7565587
Since 1992, Justin Purdue, also known as Nikki Paige Purdue Mata, was booked seven times in the Harris Co. Jail - four times as a man and three as a woman.
In 1992, as man, he was given probation for theft.
In 1994 as a man, there was another year of probation for theft.
In 1995, he was sentenced to 20 days in jail for theft.
In 1995, he was sentenced to four days in jail as a man for driving with a suspended license.
According to court documents, he legally changed his name to Nikki Paige Purdue in 1996.
Then in 2000, she was booked as a woman for theft and given a year’s probation.
In 2002, she was booked as a woman also for theft and sentenced to 30 days.
And in 2004, a charge of failure to ID was dismissed.
There is a theory (book and everything) that D.B. Cooper, the vanished hijacker from the 1970s, was in the process of undergoing a sex change operation when he conducted his mid-flight robbery.
While transitioned to a woman, but disguised as a man, he robbed the plane, and then lived out his years as a woman.
That’s the theory anyway.
How can you establish a new identity when you already have a criminal history on record in the community?