There wasn't mention of the AT&T theory in the OP article. That was a side piece linked at it the host site of the article.
I thought it was curious. They do look alike, not a matter of younger vs. older same guy thing. More like , wow, that's really uncanny. They could be brothers. There are some differences in features, not just the age thing.
There was a guy years ago convicted of a murder. The Innocence Project exonerated him after it was discovered the real suspect was still at large, had committed another murder, and it was then that his DNA was entered into the system. This is what allowed IP to pursue the case.
I remember when they put the pictures side by side. The suspect, the real guilty man, and the wrongly convicted could have been twins.
That's scary.
I use to have people come up to me, once in high school, thinking I was someone else. They'd start a conversation based on the relationship they had with this other girl. I'd go along just for fun. Once I was at a park and a guy did the same thing. Called me by the same name too.
Hubby saw her one day shortly after we'd moved back to my hometown.
She drove past in a car the precise make and model of the one I use to drive that was my mom's car. I'd told him about those encounters when I was a teenager.
He said he thought it was me he saw driving by as he was out getting the mail until it hit him, mom's car was in the garage and up on blocks. LOL
I saw her but once. Same car.
Then I asked my dad some very serious questions.