Pedophile who stole dead child’s identity spent 3 decades on the lam after walking away from prison work crew: Cops

Steven Johnson AKA William Cox

Left: Steven Johnson escaped an Oregon prison facility in 1994 (Oregon Department of Corrections). Right: U.S. marshals arrested Johnson, who had assumed the name William Cox, in July 2024 in Macon, Georgia. (Bibb County Sheriff’s Office)

U.S. marshals arrested a convicted child sex abuser in Georgia after he had been on the run for 30 years since he walked away from an Oregon prison work detail, officials said.

Marshals took Steven Craig Johnson, 70, into custody in Macon on Tuesday, the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force said in a press release. In November 1994, Johnson, then 40, fled while serving a prison sentence for sexual abuse and sodomy at Mill Creek Correctional Facility near Salem, Oregon, the Oregon Department of Corrections said. Mill Creek was an unfenced facility located on about 3,000 acres. It closed in 2021, but at the time housed nearly 300 inmates who were within four years of release.

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