$1M is a joke. It should be $21M, one for every year he had stolen from him. States should have to feel real financial pain when they get it so wrong.
This feel good article doesn't delve into the state having nothing but circumstantial evidence against him. They waited more than a decade to bring charges only after witnesses who were able to place him 27 miles away from his farm at the time of initial investigation could no longer provide reliable testimony because of dementia or other memory issues associated with aging. At the time of his trial in 2002 they had multiple witnesses testify having seen Thomas Dillon, a serial killer who was convicted in 1993 for murdering hunters/outdoorsmen, near the scene of the crime. They also had coworkers of Dillon's who told investigators that they had loaned guns to Dillon for hunting the day of the murders.