fugitive – News by Guanqun https://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun Thu, 26 May 2016 08:52:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 Fugitive found running chapel after 38 years https://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun/2010/03/25/fugitive-found-running-chapel-after-38-years/ Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:49:22 +0000 http://guanqun.wang/newsbyguanqun/?p=240 Continue reading ]]> BEIJING, March 25 — A convicted murderer sentenced to be executed for killing a man in 1951 has been found running a wedding chapel in Arizona, in the U.S., 38 years after he skipped out on parole, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

Frank Dryman, now 78, was found by an investigator hired by the Montana victim’s grandson.

Before Dryman was arrest by the Pinal County sheriff’s office in Arizona on Tuesday, he was running a successful notary and chapel business under the assumed name Victor Houston.

Dryman initially received a hanging sentence after a trial in 1955. His case then became the focus of a battle over the death penalty, so he received a new sentence of life in prison.

In 1969, after 15 years in prison, Dryman was paroled. He disappeared three years later.

“He just went into thin air in 1972,” Clem Pellett, the victim’s grandson, was quoted as saying, “I don’t think that my grandfather’s death was well represented.”

But Pellett said he only decided to hire a private investigator on a whim during a dinner party conversation, and he is not driven to see Dryman punished.

Dryman was now awaiting extradition proceedings. A hearing was scheduled for Thursday morning local time in Arizona.

“I think this sends a message to other fugitives that they are never off the radar screen,” said Montana Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Anez, “it’s imperative that individuals be held accountable for their actions.” nbg_logo

On Xinhua Web site: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/25/c_13224846.htm

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