TX “Mr. Don’s Whistle Stop” Owner Don Simpson Found Dead In Fort Worth Jail “Homicide”

FORT WORTH, TX. (THECOUNT) — Tarrant County Jail officials has identified Clinton Don Simpson, of Keller, TX, as the victim found murdered in the Tarrant County Jail Wednesday morning.

Don Simpson, 76, known as one of the most notorious child molesters in Tarrant County, died Wednesday morning from injuries he suffered while he was in custody, according to Tarrant County reports.

Clinton Don of Keller, was pronounced dead at 3:09 a.m. Wednesday at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s website on Thursday. Simpson who for years had been in state hospitals because he had been been found incompetent to stand trial died from blunt force injuries to his head and his death was a homicide, according to a ruling by the medical examiner’s office. source

The medical examiner’s report indicated the injuries occurred at 100 N. Lamar St., the Tarrant County Jail.

Tarrant County officials could not be reached Thursday morning for comment.

Twelve children including 11 girls and one boy accused the Keller man of molesting them in 2007 at “Mr. Don’s Whistle Stop,” a miniature train station and track, which at that time, was operated and owned by Simpson in his backyard.

In a 2002 Star-Telegram article on Mr. Don’s, Simpson told a reporter he began hand-building his miniature trains more than 30 years ago.

The miniature train traveled on more than 1,000 feet of track in the backyard of his Keller home.

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