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An American fugitive on the run for 21 years has been arrested in Toronto. A CBC News investigation reveals the double life Patrick Lutts Jr. led in Canada while he was wanted for manslaughter charges from a drunk-driving crash that killed two teens in Orlando in 1998.
It was an internet sleuth — claiming to have used facial recognition technology and social media clues — who pointed authorities to the whereabouts of a longtime U.S. fugitive leading a double life in Ontario.
CBC News has pieced together new details about the anonymous tip that led Toronto police earlier this year to apprehend Patrick Lutts Jr., more than two decades after he skipped a Florida court hearing on manslaughter charges and vanished.
A CBC investigation recently revealed Lutts, 51, had been openly living in the city for years, hosting a monthly bar trivia night and working as a self-styled psychic, all while evading U.S. authorities.
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