If Orange is the New Black has taught us anything, it’s that prison changes people.

But even I’m a bit taken aback by the physical wear and tear life on the inside seems to have taken on 41-year-Dartmouth native Ian Aulden Campbell.

 

Convicted in June 2003 of murdering his Halifax-born schoolteacher fiancée Heather Domenie at their Cary, North Carolina home the previous July, the once-promising Prince Andrew High grad and TUNS engineering alum will today have completed his eleventh year of a parole-ineligible life sentence.

And it shows. As you can see, his most current photo (right), on file with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, sits in stark contrast to a photo taken at the time of his August 2002 first-degree murder arrest (left).

Though Ian initially told police Heather had strangled herself on July 25, 2002, he later admitted he had perpetrated the heinous act following an argument surrounding his affair with a 23-year-old French woman named Magalie Lelong.

At trial, his defence attorney denied Heather’s death had been premeditated, but jurors sided with the prosecution, stopping short of sentencing Ian to the death penalty and choosing instead to impose a life sentence.

According to his Department of Safety Profile, Ian has nearly a dozen inmate infractions tied to his name, including a 2009 cell phone-possession charge which, according to a published on-line decision, netted him 60 days of segregation (the SHU!), 50 hours of extra duty and 180 days of suspended telephone and visitation privileges.

 

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