I am William Woods!: The True Story of the Man Imprisoned for Insisting He Was Himself

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I am William Woods!: The True Story of the Man Imprisoned for Insisting He Was Himself

By: Sean Dempsey

Narrated by: GS Hunt

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William Woods walked into a California bank to report that someone had stolen his identity. Before he left, he was in handcuffs, accused of impersonating the man who had stolen it.For decades, another man had been living under Woods’s name, constructing an entire life from licenses, jobs, mortgages, tax records, credit accounts, and every other document by which modern society decides who is real. The lie had acquired such impressive paperwork that when the true William Woods finally appeared, the system regarded him as the fraud.The more fiercely Woods insisted upon his own name, the more irrational he seemed. His truth was entered into the record as delusion. He spent 428 days in county jail and another 147 days in a psychiatric hospital, was medicated against his will, convicted of impersonating himself, ordered to live under the thief’s identity, and billed more than $118,000 for the treatment imposed upon him.Then one detective decided to look again.I Am William Woods is the harrowing true account of a man nearly erased by the institutions created to protect him, and of the terrifying distance between objective truth and official belief. It asks a question that should frighten anyone whose life exists inside a database: when every record says you are someone else, how do you prove that you are still yourself?©2026 Sean Dempsey (P)2026 Sean Dempsey

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