Fugitive murderer arrested after half a century

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Florida - Frank Freshwaters, a killer who escaped from prison, was arrested police searched Florida after half a century.



Freshwaters now 79 years old. Her body began to frail, and her face was no longer the same as when committing a crime.

He escaped in 1959. Got captured West Virginia authorities in 1975, but was released and disappeared.

Freshwaters lived in Florida for 20 years under a pseudonym.

Brevard Counth suspect, and creating a ruse to get fingerprints Freshwaters. How, by asking the fugitive signed letters.

Of stationery used, police get fingerprints Freshwaters and match.

After a week of surveillance, police confronted Freshwaters Florida with an old photo of a man as he asked if the man in the photo is himself.

"Freshwaters say never see that person for so long," said Major Tod Goodyear, of the Brevard County Sheriff's office.

"Surprisingly, after it admitted Freshwaters man in the photograph was him," said Goodyewar.

Freshwaters was arrested in 1957 for killing a pedestrian with the vehicle. Initially, he was sentenced to one to 20 years of trials, or until he broke his driving license.

He was incarcerated in the Ohio State Reformatory, before being transferred to a maximum security prison in Sandusky, September 1959, and fled.