Some men were also robbed.Ī coroner had ruled in 1989 that Johnson had taken his own life, while a second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died.

Johnson studied at universities in California and at Cambridge in Britain before moving to Australia in 1986 to live with his Australian partner Michael Noone. They lived in Canberra where Johnson studied at the Australian National University which posthumously awarded him a Ph.D.