Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Very Odd

While their wives drove Rolls-Royces and moved among Tampa's elite, Douglas S. Cone and Donald Carlson always seemed busy with business.

Cone, the 74-year-old millionaire owner of a Tampa highway construction company, was gone most weekdays.

Carlson was also frequently away from home -- an absence his family attributed to a sensitive government job that required him to travel for long stretches.

But those business trips masked a shocking secret: Douglas S. Cone was Donald Carlson. Cone lived a secret double life for nearly 30 years, raising two affluent families in lavish homes 20 miles apart -- one with his wife of 52 years and the other with a former employee.


RedNova News: Millionaire Raises Two Families 20 Miles Apart

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