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Edward Helmore

DNA evidence reveals family man in Australia was teenage killer who escaped Nebraska jail

Booking shot of teenager
William Leslie Arnold’s escape from prison in 1967 was one of the ‘cleanest’ the prison warden said he’d experienced. Photograph: US Marshals Service

William Leslie Arnold was just 16 years old in 1958 when he killed his parents and buried them in the backyard after they refused to let him borrow the family car to take his girlfriend to a drive-in movie showing of The Undead.

Arnold went about his life in and around Omaha, Nebraska, telling everyone – even family members – that his parents had taken a trip. Two weeks later he was arrested, confessed to the killings and led investigators to his parents’ makeshift gravesite.

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