Teen Kills Parents for a Date and Spends Decades Living a Double Life
A 16-year-old boy shot both of his parents… then calmly took his girlfriend to a drive-in movie the same night. For 14 days, nobody suspected a thing. But the most shocking part of this story didn’t happen until 55 years later… when a simple DNA test finally revealed the truth.
September 27th, 1958. Omaha, Nebraska.
Leslie Arnold is 16. Plays sax in the school band. Straight A's.Steady girlfriend.
All afternoon he's on the phone with her. His mom Opal keeps telling him to hang up.
When he finally does, the screaming starts.
Opal doesn't like the girl. Tells Leslie he's done seeing her.
They go at it for hours.
Around 2:30, Leslie walks downstairs and asks one question.
Can I borrow the car?I want to take her to the drive in tonight.
Opal says no.
Leslie walks to the closet. Grabs the family rifle.Six shots.
All through her heart. His own mother.
His 13 year old brother Jimmy is across town at the rodeo.Lucky kid.
Leslie is still standing over the body when his dad Bill walks through the front door.
Bill sees his wife on the dining room floor. He lunges at his son.
Leslie doesn't even flinch. Six more shots.
Both parents dead. Leslie is standing in their blood.
Here's where a normal person would panic.
Leslie mops the floor.Drags both bodies to the basement.
Drives to the rodeo. Picks up little Jimmy.Tells him mom and dad had to leave town suddenly.
Drops Jimmy at a neighbor's house.
Picks up his girlfriend.
Takes her to the drive in. The movie playing that night? "The Undead."
He watched the whole thing.