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Former priest accused of abusing dozens of boys found murdered in Las Vegas

The 70-year-old — bald, his former wrestler’s frame rounded out and stooped — lived on a street of identical houses topped with terra-cotta roofs and fronted by gravel yards, occasionally chatting with neighbors as he walked his black Lab. He had put 2,500 miles between himself and the allegations that shadowed his name in New Jersey.

When Capparelli failed to appear for a few days this month, Henderson police officers conducted a wellness check at his house Saturday morning. They found Capparelli dead on his kitchen floor, according to Fox 5. He had been shot through the neck.