Twice-caught fugitive, 80, is out of Ohio prison on parole

Published June 15, 2016

A now-80-year-old man who disappeared from an Ohio prison camp in 1959 while serving time for manslaughter and who was captured last year in Florida has been released from prison on parole.

Ohio's prison department says Frank Freshwaters was released Wednesday morning from a Nelsonville facility to a relative in West Virginia. The department wouldn't disclose details.

Freshwaters was caught twice in the decades he was a fugitive. He first was found in West Virginia in 1975 but wasn't extradited, as the state's governor concluded Freshwaters had a "flawless 16-year residency" there.

Investigators tracked him down last year and found the widower living off Social Security benefits under an alias at a trailer in rural Brevard County, Florida.

The conditions of parole include five years of supervision.

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