Back in the summer of 1957, he was a 20-year-old kid with a full head of dark hair and a lead foot. One night in July, he was speeding through Ohio when he hit and killed a pedestrian. Freshwaters was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison only to have the sentence suspended.... But Freshwaters squandered his good fortune. He violated probation by climbing back into the driver�s seat and was locked up in February 1959 in the Ohio State Reformatory.
It would prove to be a fitting setting for Freshwaters. After its closing in 1990, the reformatory would be used as a set for �The Shawshank Redemption,� a 1994 movie about a wrongfully convicted man who escapes from prison. Freshwaters never escaped from the reformatory, however. Instead, he secured a transfer to a nearby �honor camp,� according to the AP. It was from there that Freshwaters disappeared on Sept. 30, 1959....
Friday, May 8, 2015
"He said he hadn�t seen that guy in a long time. Then he admitted it and basically said, 'You got me.'"
"Frank Freshwaters... on the lam for 56 years."
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