Ep. 244 – Son, Father, Killer: The Crimes of Leslie Arnold

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At 16-years-old, Leslie Arnold murdered his parents, Bill and Opal Arnold, and buried them in the backyard. For two weeks, he went to school and church, and no one realized what he had done. But the law caught up with him…at least for a while. After serving 9 years in prison, Arnold escaped and built an entirely new, exciting life that would go undetected for decades. 

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Episode Source List:
https://omaha.com/news/crime/he-killed-his-parents-in-omaha-at-age-and-escaped/article_cafdb0aa-8cd9-11e7-91e2-83c37e694330.html 

https://www.omahacentralregister.com/9904/features/how-a-central-alumni-helped-solve-a-decades-old-cold-case/

https://omaha.com/news/crime/the-mystery-of-leslie-arnold/collection_b99e125c-93f8-11e7-8a84-4380d66162e0.html#1 

https://omaha.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_2946eba0-e5e8-11ed-9a05-afaeaf38df7c.html 

https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/press-release/us-marshals-nebraska-use-dna-evidence-close-55-year-old-cold-case 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/australia/australia-william-leslie-arnold-cold-case-intl-hnk-dst

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/news/dna-test-exposes-australia-family-man-as-escaped-nebraska-con-who-shot-his-parents-in-1958 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/william-leslie-arnold-australia-nebraska-killed-parents-jailbreak 

https://douglascohistory.org/band-kid-or-budding-psychopath-the-crimes-of-leslie-arnold/