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Australian Man Is Convicted of Killing Gay American in 1980s
MELBOURNE, Australia —More than 30 years after the body of Scott Johnson, a 27-year-old mathematician from the United States, was found at the bottom of a Sydney cliff, the man accused in the death was convicted on Thursday of murder. A surprising admission from the defendant, Scott White, 50, earlier in the week cleared the way for the judge to convict him in the 1988 case, bringing to an end a decades-long fight by his brother, Steve Johnson, to find the perpetrators behind his brother’s death. “It’s over, finally,” Steve Johnson, an American tech entrepreneur, said in a telephone interview.