HARTFORD, Conn. – A man who spent 48 years as a fugitive from a Georgia prison before being found this year in a small Connecticut town has died at the age of 71.
An attorney for Robert Stackowitz tells the Hartford Courant (http://cour.at/2h9IWIu ) his client was taken to a hospital over the weekend and died Monday as the result of numerous health complications.
Stackowitz escaped from a prison work camp in Carrolton, Georgia, in 1968 while serving a 17-year sentence for robbery. He was arrested at his Connecticut home in Sherman in May.
A Connecticut judge in October dropped a fugitive-from-justice charge against Stackowitz.
Georgia officials had withdrawn their extradition request and accepted a parole supervision plan after learning that Stackowitz has serious health problems, including heart failure and bladder cancer.
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Information from: Hartford Courant, http://www.courant.com
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