'Have You Seen This Man' podcast: US Marshals renew calls for tips to find escaped death row inmate.
This is an ABC News podcast,"Have You Seen This Man?," hosted by 'The View's' Sunny Hostin. It follows the U.S. Marshals' ongoing mission to find Lester Eubanks, a dangerous convict who escaped police custody in 1973 and has never been found.
The escape was a reckoning for the Ohio prison system, which had tried to institute reforms that would help rehabilitate inmates, but in the process was seeing dangerous convicts get free. Her brutal assault and murder in 1965 shook the town of Mansfield, Ohio. Residents were relieved when police delivered swift justice, arresting a troubled 22-year-old local man named Lester Eubanks for the crime. They secured his confession, and gathered persuasive physical evidence, including his footprints at the scene, and the gun he had bought, used in the crime. He was not only convicted, he was sentenced to death.
And not to just any penitentiary. At the time, Ohio had a reputation for menacing prison complexes, cold places known for violence and cruelty. One prison in the state, the Ohio State Reformatory, even became the set for the movie “Shawshank Redemption” . “Lester went from death row, to commuted to a life sentence, to then, a year or two later, now he’s such an honor prisoner that he can be taken unescorted and left in a mall to go Christmas shopping,” Fortney said. “I think normal people can’t comprehend that this could actually happen.”
But if someone helped Eubanks get away, who was it? Police explored that question as they first tracked Eubanks’s path from Ohio to Michigan to California, with much of the early suspicion centering on the fugitive’s father, a bricklayer and minister from Mansfield named Mose Eubanks.“Nobody wants to find out that their son or daughter has murdered somebody,” said Lawrence Rawls, who knew Mose Eubanks.
In December 1973, the former death row inmate had escaped from the Ohio State Penitentiary, where he had been serving his sentence for the murder of 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener. And while there were initial efforts to find him after he fled, the search quickly sputtered. One FBI agent said the agency’s L.A. office had so many criminals to chase and so few tips coming in -- they had labeled the Eubanks case “pending inactive.
“I understand it may be hard to turn in someone you love to the authorities. But think of us for once,” said Mary Ellen’s sister, Myrtle Carter. “I just wanted to let you know that I wouldn't bother calling my dad,” he said. “Because he ain't gonna give you s---.”
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