In Australia, He Was a ‘Great Father.’ Secretly, He Was an Escaped Convict.

New DNA evidence helped confirm that a man who went by John Damon and died in Australia in 2010 was actually William Leslie Arnold, a convicted killer and escaped inmate from Nebraska. Leslie Arnold points to where his parents’ bodies were buried in their backyard on Oct. 11, 1958. He is handcuffed to detectives Glenn Gates, left, and Earl White Jr.Credit…The World-Herald May 6, 2023, 9:04 a.m. ET

A grave marker at Tamborine Mountain Cemetery in Queensland, Australia, bears the name John Vincent Damon.

For years, until he died on Aug. 6, 2010, at 69, that’s how he was known to […]

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