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

: Mary Ellen had gone to a local laundromat to get quarters when she was abducted, shot twice, and beaten to death. [S2E3] Death Row Fugitive

In November 1965, 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener was brutally murdered in Mansfield, Ohio. Eubanks became a "model prisoner" to gain entry

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

: 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

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