A convicted murderer named Frederick Barrett was caught last month, 32 years after he managed to escape from prison. He escape on August 17, 1979 from the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford during a power outage that night. U.S. Marshals Service officers who were dressed as U.S. Forest Service firefighters arrested him at his cabin in Montrose County, Colorado. They identified him by the tattoo of a cross and dot on his right hand.
“It’s really, really difficult to track somebody who’s been out 30 years,” Davenport told Reuters. “The trail was cold.”
But using public records and databases, investigators found evidence Barrett had traveled to Hawaii, California, Tennessee and Maryland since his escape and eventually appeared to settle in Colorado.
