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About Frank Freshwaters
- Frank Freshwaters (born April 18, 1936) is an American criminal and former fugitive.
- Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, Freshwaters was arrested in 1957 for the death of Eugene Flynt, whom he struck and killed while speeding.
- He pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and, after a brief sentence at the infamous Ohio State Reformatory, he escaped from an honor farm in 1959.
- In the intervening years, Freshwaters lived under an assumed name and sought work as a truck driver.
- He was nearly apprehended in 1975 while living in West Virginia, but then-Governor Arch Moore refused to return him to Ohio officials because of his positive reputation. In 2015, the Marshals Service set up a cold case unit in northern Ohio, and their investigation led them to a trailer home in Melbourne, Florida where they found Freshwaters, living under the alias William Harold Cox.
- He was arrested without incident and flown back to Ohio, where he was incarcerated at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
- He was released on parole in June 2016, and he moved back to West Virginia.
- Freshwaters is known as the "Shawshank Fugitive" due to his time incarcerated at the Ohio State Reformatory, made famous by the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption.
- He was the object of the longest capture in the history of the U.S.
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