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On 17 May 2015 the web site IFLScience.org published an article reporting that a scientist who had been missing for more than 20 years had been found hiding in a secret drug lab he'd established in a Minnesota couple's basement: There was no truth to the story, however. IFLScience.org was a fake news site that traded on its deliberate similarity to the popular science-based IFLScience.com site to spread fabricated clickbait stories. IFLScience.org used the same layout as the real IFLScience.com site, a form of camouflage that frequently tricked readers into believing that they were reading authentic news stories. However, the two sites had several noticeable differences: The photograph of chemistry professor Dr. Winston Corrigan used to accompany the fake article is actually a (color-altered) picture of Gary Sandford Raub, a Seattle transient who was arrested in 2012 for the 1976 stabbing death of a 70-year-old woman in Augusta, the oldest cold case arrest in Maine history:
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