PAPILLION, Neb. (WOWT) - This day in history was a dark one for Papillion.

On December 2, 1983, 12-year-old Christopher Walden disappeared.

His body was found a few miles outside of town, he had been abducted and stabbed to death.

John Joubert , an airman at Offutt Air Force Base, was eventually found guilty of Walden’s murder.

He was also found guilty of killing 13-year-old Danny Joe Eberle in Bellevue a few months earlier.

Joubert confessed to the boys’ murders and was sentenced to death.

Joubert was also linked to the killing of 11-year-old Richard Stetson in Maine in 1982, before he joined the Air Force.

Nebraska executed Joubert in the electric chair in 1996.

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