From The Oregonian

By Michael Russell

The ceremony likely won't mirror Chelsea Clinton's private affair Saturday in Rhinebeck, N.Y., but Doitchin Krasev, the Bulgarian former Oregon Liquor Control Commission inspector accused of masquerading as a murdered Ohio boy, will be allowed to wed behind bars.

Krasev, aka Jason Evers, aka "John Doe," filed a motion earlier this month in federal court asking for authorization to marry at Multnomah County's Inverness Jail.

He is being held on a federal charge of falsifying a passport application. He faces further charges of identity theft in Ohio.

The former liquor control investigator came to the United States as a student in the 1990s. He disappeared, then resurfaced using the name Jason Robert Evers 14 years ago. The real Jason Evers was a 3-year-old boy who was kidnapped and murdered in 1982 in Ohio.

Records show that Krasev went so far as to obtain a birth certificate, Social Security number and Oregon driver's license in Evers' name.

He was hired by the Liquor Control Commission in 2002 and shined as an inspector and investigator for the agency that regulates Oregon's alcohol sales.

But a U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service agent flagged the Evers name while cross-checking databases of deceased Americans with names of people issued passports in April. Agents arrested Krasev that month in Idaho.

Prosecutors took to calling him "John Doe" in court documents after Krasev, citing safety concerns, refused to tell investigators his real name.

Federal agents eventually identified him as a student who moved from Sofia, Bulgaria, to attend a private North Carolina college and live with a host family in the Washington, D.C., area.

Through his attorney, Susan Russell, Krasev filed a motion July 23 seeking a judge's authorization to be married in jail.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta signed the order Friday authorizing "the defendant, who is currently detained at the Multnomah County Inverness Jail, to marry."

Acosta went on to permit a minister or other official authorized by the jail to perform the marriage.

Krasev's bride-to-be, unidentified in court papers, will have to obtain a marriage license before they can marry, jail officials said. Now that the legal niceties are out of the way, a more pressing question remains: Will Krasev's bride-to-be take his name? And if so, which one?