Fingerprint ruse IDs man as longtime fugitive

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A man convicted of manslaughter walked away from an Ohio prison farm in 1959, then was allowed to slip away from law enforcement in 1975 and disappeared until a ruse to get his fingerprints led to his arrest in Florida this week, investigators said Tuesday.

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