He Stole a Dead Child's Identity, Lived on the Lam 30 Years

Steven Johnson is back in custody three decades after he escaped from a prison work detail in Oregon, reports CBS News. The man described as a "pedophile" in a wanted poster from the 1990s was arrested at an apartment complex in Macon, Georgia, where he was living under the alias of William Cox, say authorities in a release. As it turns out, William Cox was the name of a child who died in Texas in 1962, and Johnson managed to use the birth certificate to obtain a Social Security number and driver's license, per KOIN.

Johnson, now 70, had been imprisoned on sexual abuse charges, per CNN, and his wanted poster in Oregon warned that he "is a pedophile and presents a high probability of victimizing pre-teen boys." It's not clear exactly how authorities finally tracked him down. A "new investigative technology" used by the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service established new leads this year, according to CNN, but no details were provided about the technology.