In the subsequent investigation, investigators put out a reward of $5,000 for information. The next day, their bodies were discovered, and their truck was found abandoned in Yuma. He bound their hands with a rope, and shot both in the head, execution style, and later stole their pickup truck. On December 9, 1981, weeks after his release, Danielson confronted 60-year-old Harold and 55-year-old Betty Pratt at a desert campsite in Arizona. In 1981, after serving eleven years of his sentence at Oregon State Penitentiary, Danielson was granted parole, and was released from prison.
Danielson received a sentence of 25 years in prison. Instead, in November 1970, Danielson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and several other charges, although persisted that he shot Davis only because Davis pulled a gun on him first. He was charged with first-degree murder not long after, but after an initial mistrial, which resulted from the prosecution presenting improper evidence, that charge was dismissed. After some time, Danielson brandished a gun and fatally shot Davis. In June 1970, Danielson got into an argument with 21-year-old Thomas Elroy Davis after a roadside encounter near Marcola, Oregon. He also later underwent a religious conversion in prison. Although little was initially reported about his childhood, it was later revealed that Danielson had experienced depression and drug use.
Danielson was born on August 25, 1946, in Iowa.
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