Bill and Opal Arnold | The Lives of William Leslie "Les" Arnold
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
From the time he murdered his parents as a teenager until his death under an assumed name, William Les Arnold’s life intersected with several other people and it left many of them wondering who was he, really?
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| 0:44.9 | From the time he murdered his parents as a teenager until his death under an assumed name, |
| 0:48.7 | William Leslie Arnold's life intersected with several other people, and it left many of them wondering, who was he really? |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Charlie, and welcome he really? I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello and welcome to Crime Lines. |
| 1:05.7 | I have a quick schedule note and a little bit of a personal note. |
| 1:10.3 | With the new Crime Lines schedule, I only release on the first and third Wednesday bit of a personal note. With the new crime line schedule, I only release |
| 1:12.8 | on the first and third Wednesdays of the month unless it's a month like this where I do two-parter |
| 1:17.2 | and then I release both of them and then we have another episode. It gets a little confusing. |
| 1:21.7 | We do have a fifth Wednesday this month, so it'll actually be two weeks before the next |
| 1:26.6 | crime lanes episode, but I have to say the |
| 1:29.0 | extra week off is coming at a very good time because my son is getting married in mid-May. |
| 1:35.5 | And I know you're probably thinking that there is no way I'm old enough to have a child |
| 1:38.6 | getting married, and I definitely agree with that, but the calendar says otherwise. |
| 1:43.7 | There is going to be a lot on my plate for the next |
| 1:45.8 | few weeks leading up to the wedding, so having a week off is definitely welcome. And feel free to |
| 1:52.0 | follow my personal Instagram at Charlie and KC if you want to see pictures of everything, |
| 1:56.1 | because that's where I will be posting them. And then if you miss me too much, beyond the files, |
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