Investigators suspect that Lester Eubanks may be using the alias Victor Young. Unsolved Mysteries season 2 releases on October 19; one of the episodes, Death Row Fugitive, features the murder of Mary Ellen Deener at the hands of Lester Eubanks in 1965. His disappearance has plagued both authorities and the victims family for decades. He believes his late mother was raped by Eubanks. Lester Eubanks grabbed Mary Ellen as she walked along the sidewalk. The program was borne from hopes that time outside the prison walls would help reform felons like him and was heavily curtailed after three convicts including Eubanks escaped. Charlotte Geneva Baldwin passed away Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. 29 2021, Updated 5:18 p.m. This especially comes into play when the situation is that of a criminal on the run, as is showcased in Death Row Fugitive with Lester Eubanks a murderer who managed to slip away from the authorities while Christmas shopping. For Deeners family, that day in December nearly paralleled the night of 1965. Lester Eubanks, one of America's most notorious fugitives, didn't need a hacksaw or a wooden gun or barter to escape confinement. Its so appalling that someone has to headhunt to catch this monster., In 2017, Deputy U.S. Law enforcement officer John Arcudi was in high school when Deener was killed. Mary Ellen encountered Eubanks in 1965 when she ran out of change while doing laundry for the family at a local laundromat in Mansfield, Ohio. Thats what were looking for. He dragged her behind a house in the 300 block of North Mulberry Street, raped her, shot her twice and left her for dead. For many years he was a faithful member of the Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church in Newark, NJ. "And he was not in any of them, not one.". Officials also believe he worked as a janitor at St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood in the late 1980s or early 90s, Murphy said. According to the Rolling Stone, while Eubanks was allowed to go Christmas shopping on good behavior at a local mall in Columbus Ohio, he evaded the guards as their designated meeting time and escaped. Lester grew up with ElizabethDudley fell in love and eventually married her. "We just need to talk to those people," he told KABC. Inside The Disturbing Legend Of The 'Tsunami Spirits' That Have Haunted Japan Ever Since Its 2011 Disaster, 12-Year-Old Canadian Boy Finds 69-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil While Hiking, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. Whether the DNA sample would produce solid new leads is impossible to predict. At one point, he sat on death row at the Ohio State Penitentiary and remains one of the U.S. Marshals most wanted fugitives to this day. Marshals offer record reward for fugitive Lester Eubanks, More: U.S. It is scientifically plausible that a comparison of a biological sons DNA (if he is a genetic son) to unsolved profiles would turn up hits if the father had been the source of a crime scene DNA sample, Greely said. Convicted murderer Lester Eubanks, whose escape from custody was detailed in the "Death Row Fugitive" episode of Netflix's "Unsolved Mysteries Vol. [2] [3] His disappearance featured on the Netflix series Unsolved Mysteries. While not an unsolved murder case, the culprits disappearance remains baffling. It's quite repulsive; it's unfathomable. She claimed that she used to run with Lester and that he used to reside in the city with someone named Kay Banks. Mary Ellen Deener was shot and bludgeoned to death when she was 14 by Lester Eubanks. The FBI would not make available the person in charge of the nations criminal DNA database, Thomas F. Callaghan, for an interview. [4], As of 2022, Eubanks was still listed on the United States Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list. Marshal Brian Fitzgibbon said after the Netflix showing that the marshals service received a lot of tips from people filling in the holes. He came back an hour later to finish the job. In today's era, it would just never happen." Erin E. Murphy, a law professor at New York University, said she also believed the circumstances of the Eubanks case may allow for DNA to be used in a national fugitive search. "He realized she was still breathing, still alive," says Siler. In December 1973, Eubanks walked away from the custody of the Ohio Department of Corrections while on a temporary honor furlough to go Christmas shopping. Lester Eubanks is suspected to be in the Los Angeles area, an official with the U.S. Volume 2 of Unsolved Mysteries brings us six baffling cases that have shaken the world to its core. Eubanks has been on the loose since 1973, when he escaped while on a shopping . Anthony grew up in Canton and graduated Canton High School in 2018 . Marshals to place Lester Eubanks on their 15 Most Wanted list. Other photos show a former employee known only as Rick. After reviewing recently obtained photographs that allegedly show Eubanks working and socializing with people in Los Angeles County including a former waterbed factory in Gardena the Marshals Service began focusing their investigation there,U.S. John Arcudi of the Mansfield Police Department. To use as powerful a word as I can think of, we were traumatized, said sister Myrtle Carter who was 18 at the time of the murder. ", "Any information that can get us to that front door, get him in custody," says Siler. Legal Statement. Marshal David Siler reflected on Eubanks escape, lamenting to the Manfield News Journal