[s2e3] Death Row Fugitive -

Eubanks became a "model prisoner" to gain entry into an honor program.

: Lester Eubanks , who had a prior history of sexual offenses, confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death.

In November 1965, 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener was brutally murdered in Mansfield, Ohio.

: In December 1973, prison officials remarkably allowed Eubanks and several other inmates to go Christmas shopping at a mall in Columbus, Ohio, entirely unsupervised .

: In 1972, after the Supreme Court briefly ruled the death penalty unconstitutional, Eubanks' sentence was commuted to life in prison. The Escape: A Furlough Gone Wrong