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DNA Matches Dead Australian to Nebraska Prisoner Who Escaped 56 Years Ago
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2023
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2023, page 37
After his death in 2010 at age 69, John Vincent Damon’s family members would occasionally walk through Tamborine Mountain Cemetery in Queensland, Australia, just to stand at his grave. He left behind a wife and two adult children in Australia, plus three stepdaughters from an earlier marriage in the U.S. ...
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