Social media conversations claimed that Hall is now in Thailand and working as a teacher under a false name. According to US online Texas newspaper myStatesman, Hall is from Alabama, where he faced charges in both Cullman and Madison counties when he fled the United States. A Cullman County assistant district attorney in Huntsville said that Hall faked his own death to escape the charges. “It is believed that Smith is really Hall, according to the Biriram Times,” wrote myStateman online. The online myStatesman wrote: “Hall was indicted in November 2014 in Cullman County on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, the Cullman Times said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 22, 2017 18:00 UTC