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discocrisco01

(1,666 posts) Tue May 5, 2015, 04:10 PM May 2015

Ohio killer caught after more than 50 years on the run

Source: BBC

Frank Freshwaters, 79, escaped in 1959 and was briefly held by West Virginia authorities in 1975 before he was freed and disappeared again.
He had been living under an assumed name in Florida for at least 20 years.
Brevard County officials said they created a ruse to get Freshwaters to sign papers to check his fingerprints.
After a week of surveillance, US marshals and Florida confronted him with an old booking photo as he left his trailer home in rural Melbourne, Florida, asking whether he had seen the man.
"They showed him the pic, and he said he hadn't seen that guy in a long time," Major Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff's office said.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32597349

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Ohio killer caught after more than 50 years on the run (Original Post) discocrisco01 May 2015 OP

Thank goodness shenmue May 2015 #1

He killed someone in a traffic accident Politicalboi May 2015 #2

Indeed. What a hellish life he must have lived, just trying to stay out of troubles. nt silvershadow May 2015 #3

Always Good To Know RobinA May 2015 #4

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. Thank goodness

Reply to discocrisco01 (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 05:08 PM

May 2015

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)

2. He killed someone in a traffic accident

Reply to discocrisco01 (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 07:09 PM

May 2015

Freshwaters was convicted of manslaughter for killing a pedestrian with a vehicle in July 1957.
His initial sentence of one to 20 years was suspended until he violated probation by getting a driving licence.
He was imprisoned at the Ohio State Reformatory before being moved to a lower-security camp near Sandusky, where he escaped in September 1959.

Doesn't say if he did it on purpose, but to call him a killer if it was an accident is a little too much. The title made it seem he was a murderer who kills for the thrill of it. Just pay the fine and let him go IMO.

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)

3. Indeed. What a hellish life he must have lived, just trying to stay out of troubles. nt

Reply to Politicalboi (Reply #2)

Tue May 5, 2015, 07:20 PM

May 2015

RobinA

(9,893 posts)

4. Always Good To Know

Reply to Politicalboi (Reply #2)

Wed May 6, 2015, 08:16 AM

May 2015

that law enforcement dollars are being put to good use. Maybe put him in a cell with those sex on the beach people.

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