Thursday, May 7, 2015

Fugitive on the Lam for 56 Years Found!

For the last three days in a row, on my morning commute to a grand’s school, I've been hearing about this on the radio. In the 1950s he did part of his time for speeding and killing a pedestrian in the Ohio State Reformatory which closed in 1990 and was used as the set for the movie The Shawshank Redemption. He escaped from an honor camp near the reformatory unlike the prisoner in the movie. The now wheelchair bound fugitive has waived his rights to expedition back to Ohio. If he is returned this time-they passed the last time in 1975 when he was recaptured in West Virginia, so he was re-released. He has basically been on the lam for 56 years and of all places he turned up in Melbourne Fl. It’s enough to make me wonder about other folks, acquaintances, in my age category that could be on their second or third career, I mean chance, with a false identity. This guy has even been collecting social security. In a way a return to jail could be considered another kind of social security, I guess. Most of the people weighing in on social media say too much time has passed-just let it go. It will be interesting to see if that happens. There was a stakeout and fancy plan to get his fingerprints in order to confirm that William Cox was indeed Frank Freshwater. This will probably replay as a made for TV drama at some point. There is that and that’s the latest from my current locale. Other than Cub Scouts, baseball, house painting, and visits to the beach this trip has been rather undramatic, just the way I like it! 

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