Convicted assassin was in a position to escape jail by merely strolling away and nonetheless hasn’t been caught 50 years later
In 1973 a convicted assassin walked out of jail and by no means returned, over 50 years later police nonetheless have not managed to search out him.
On 14 November, 1965, in Mansfield, Ohio, Lester Eubanks murdered 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener whereas she was serving to her household with laundry, the next 12 months he was discovered responsible of homicide whereas perpetrating a rape and sentenced to loss of life.
On the time he had dedicated the homicide, Eubanks was out on bond for an tried rape which had occurred three months earlier than he killed Mary.
In 1972 his loss of life sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, however a 12 months after that he took the chance to stroll away from jail when it offered itself.
Eubanks was given an ‘honour task’ which allowed him to depart the jail for a time frame to do Christmas purchasing with the expectation that he would return to his incarceration as soon as his process had been accomplished, he by no means did.
The convicted assassin and different inmates had been taken to a shopping center and allowed to stroll round it unsupervised so long as they returned to the meetup spot by a sure time however when it was time to depart Lester by no means got here again.
Strolling away from his jail sentence on 7 December, Eubanks has been a fugitive ever since then with the police failing to arrest him for many years.
They weren’t with out leads, the authorities recognized the convicted assassin as one ‘Victor Younger’ in California, with him working in a waterbed manufacturing unit at one level and as a hospital janitor.
Nevertheless, a federal arrest warrant out towards the person was unintentionally taken off the database and this error wasn’t noticed till the 90s.
A TV enchantment for details about Eubanks acquired an enormous quantity of data, and a girl named Kay Banks stated he had lived together with her for a number of years.
Investigators additionally imagine that on three separate events between 2003 and 2012 he returned to Ohio to attend the funerals of members of the family and but he has not been caught.
Regardless of having all types of details about his previous whereabouts and the roles he labored, police stay unable to search out the convicted assassin to this present day.
That is if he is even nonetheless alive, since he could be an 81-year-old now.
The case of the lacking convicted assassin was formally turned over to a chilly case unit in 2016, with investigators following up tons of of leads with out with the ability to discover him.
A reward of $50,000 (£37,500) is on the market for anybody who can present info that may result in the assassin’s arrest and as of 2018 he’s a USMS 15 Most Wished Fugitive.
His story was additionally featured on an episode of Netflix’s true crime present Unsolved Mysteries.
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