Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Where are these New York prison escapees hidin' out at?

As well planned as this seems to have been, the chances of them not having an escape method beyond the walls is ludicrous. They had to have a ride pre-arranged - or a safe house at least.

Long, LONG gone.

They rode a barrel up Niagara falls then caught a tour bus to DC.

Do even stupid cops think they're still together...
let alone in the area?

No, they think like you. Then, nine times out of ten, they find out they were hiding near the place they were last seen.

Shawshank Redemption was a novella written by Stephen King.

some homes are seasonal and at some people leave extra vehicles.special if a club owned property .Might not know anybody been their or their camp truck is gone.

My guess is long gone if there has been nothing in 7 days.Personally i think a prison employee they decides to help a prisoner escape should get life in prison plus be charged with any crime the prisoners commit.

No, they think like you. Then, nine times out of ten, they find out they were hiding near the place they were last seen.

That's my point. Novels evolve from successful escapes. It's early yet.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. — It’s a case where real life seemed to parallel art — until the crucial last scene.

In Stephen King’s 1994 film “The Shawshank Redemption,” the last we saw of fugitive Andy Dufresne, he was enjoying life on the lam fixing up his fishing boat in Mexico.

But for real-life counterpart Frank Freshwaters, an actual Shawshank Prison escapee who spent the past 56 years on the run before being recaptured this week, there won’t likely be any tropical sunsets in his final act.

Freshwaters, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter charges stemming from a 1957 automobile accident, initially got probation. But he was sentenced in 1959 to serve up to 20 years at the Ohio State Reformatory, also known as Shawshank State Prison, after a parole violation.

Just as Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, benefited from being a favorite of Shawshank’s warden and prison guards, Freshwaters was “quickly able to earn the trust of the prison officials,” according to Peter Elliott, the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, earning the Akron native a transfer to what’s called an “honor farm,” according to Elliott.

That’s when Freshwaters plotted his escape.

But unlike Dufresne, who spent nearly 20 years digging a tunnel with a worn down rock hammer, Freshwaters managed to escape after only seven months. The details of that escape have not been divulged.

For the next 56 years later, Freshwaters lived in various states, held various jobs and had various aliases, according to authorities.

Now 79, in a wheelchair and living under the alias William Harold Cox, Freshwaters was taken into custody Monday at his Melbourne, Fla., mobile home.

He is being held in the Brevard County Jail pending extradition back to Ohio, according to Major Tod Goodyear in Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

Attempts to reach family members of Frank Freshwater in the Akron, Ohio, area — as well as those of William Harold Cox in Melbourne — were not successful.