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The last thing I want is for Lester U-Banks to die a free man.

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You murdered my sister.

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The Bible says you take a life, you give your life.

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To go from death row to the shopping mall and then allow him to escape is unfathomable.

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I want him caught.

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The last thing I want is for Lester U-Banks to die a free man.

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I've been here since I was three.

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It was a great place to live.

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Like any small town, just everybody knew everybody.

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Mansfield was a very safe place.

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I never remember feeling scared or afraid or something happening to me.

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Never.

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Mariela was a typical little girl.

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Riding bikes and hopscotch and, you know, I played with dolls.

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She had a lot of friends.

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She was just a giggly girl.

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That's all I remember doing, just giggling with her friends.

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There was seven of us.

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We all had things that we had to do in the home, the boys trash and mopping the floor.

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And the girls did like the dishes and washing and folding clothes and all that.

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It's how she came about during the laundry that night.

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Mariela and Brenda had washed all the clothes and they ended up with wet clothes because the dryer broke.

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So they had to get a taxi to go to take the wet clothes to the laundromat.

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I felt comfortable sending them there at that time of night because my grandmother lived right next door to the laundromat.

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And they knew they could go there if anything happened.

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They got there, of course, and the water was drying the clothes and they ran out of change.

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And Mariela went to the other laundromat to get change, take five minutes to walk that distance.

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And then when she didn't come back, Brenda went to my grandmother's and told her that Mariela and I went to get change and she wasn't back yet.

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And my grandmother told her to stay there and she'd go and see if she could find her.

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On her way down there, she saw the police.

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And she eventually saw that it was Mariela there and what had happened to her.

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Mariela and Brenda had been shot.

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The police were able to determine what caliber of gun that she was shot with.

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So they started going to all the gun stores and hardware stores that sold guns in Mansfield.

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They ended up at the Diamond Hardware, up on South Diamond Street, and they asked to see the books.

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They see a weapon that fit the description of the gun that was used to shoot Mariela.

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And then they were purchased by Lester Eubanks.

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And then they started really beating the bushes, talking to informants.

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Some informants said he saw Lester Eubanks in that area earlier in the night before the crime occurred.

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Lester Eubanks, he was just a guy that walked down the street. I never knew who he was.

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But I just always thought he was weird and appeared to be a loner.

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Always had these numb chucks within those karate sticks and that's what he'd do with him. He'd walk up and down the street.

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Lester Eubanks grew up in Mansfield. He's a sharp-looking man. He is well-liked.

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Easily can fit into anywhere.

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But he was also what we would consider to label a sexual predator today.

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Lester Eubanks, he had been arrested two times in the past for sex offenses.

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And at the time of the homicide, he was out on bond for rape attempt.

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This guy shouldn't have even been out.

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Sunday morning, officers picked him up, took him to the police station.

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They conducted an interview of him. He confessed.

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And we had the right man.

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His confession was pretty detailed in explaining what he did to this little girl.

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That night, Lester Eubanks was just hanging in the area.

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And he sees an opportunity. He sees this beautiful little girl walk past him.

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He grabs her, pulls her behind the house. She starts to scream.

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She shoots her twice. They're screaming, stops.

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Eubanks left the scene, went around the corner to his apartment, got dressed to go downtown and go dancing.

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And on his way downtown, come back by the scene of the crime, and Mary Ellen was writhing in agony.

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He was still alive after being shot, wanting help. And so he helped her.

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I picked up a brick in the alley, and I went back to where this little girl I can't even read anymore.

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He went back. He admitted to it. He's a monster. He's a monster.

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That's disgusting.

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Sometime during that morning, the detectives came and told us why they were there.

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I was just total shocked. I couldn't believe it. My mother was hysterical crying.

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And my sister Brenda was, she was in shock for a long time.

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I think it affected her up until the time she died. I can't imagine having to deal with that.

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This monster takes her entire family's world and just crushes it and changes their future.

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I went to the trial daily because I wanted him to know that she had a lot of people that cared about her and loved her and what he had taken from, you know, the world.

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I just wanted him to know we cared.

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He testified. He wanted to get up. And I think that's really the trait of a narcissist.

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He didn't seem to show any remorse at all other than the fact that he was caught.

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Upon his confession in the courtroom, he was convicted by jury of his peers. He was sentenced to death.

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He was sent to the death row in the Ohio prison system.

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Everybody was happy. It was wrapped up in a bow for a while.

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The Ohio Penitentiary was located in downtown Columbus. And that is where Lester Eubanks was confined on his conviction from Richland County.

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I knew Lester Eubanks. I didn't go around him. I wasn't afraid of him. I didn't like him.

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I didn't know what he was sitting there for except murder.

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Lester was a tall guy, very cocky, very opinionated.

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Lester had an attitude. There was a lot of people he didn't like, a lot of things he didn't like.

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He was basically a loner, painting or writing or doing whatever he'd done, you know.

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Eubanks was allowed to have paint brushes and canvases.

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That was not unusual for any prisoner on death row in the 60s and 70s to be able to utilize whatever skills they had.

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They were able to eat their time doing something constructive.

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Three separate times, his execution was pushed back for unknown reasons.

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And then finally he was pushed because in 1972 a death penalty was abolished.

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The United States Supreme Court in 1972 found that the death penalty was administered in an arbitrary and capricious method.

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So Eubanks along with other Ohio death row prisoners had to have their sentence set aside and it reverted to a life sentence.

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I was angry. I was angry and shocked and confused.

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But if you can't do anything about some things you have to let it go.

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That's what we did. We went on with our lives knowing that he was in prison.

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After the death penalty was abolished, Buster Eubanks was put into general population.

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He could put on a facade, you know, where it looks like a good guy but it's not.

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He is a smooth talker. He won the guards over and there's no other reasonable explanation than that.

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They allowed him to go into this honor program.

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At the time there was a national reform kind of movement to do things in prison with inmates to help them prepare for life on the outside.

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Eubanks became eligible for this honor or trustee program that allowed him under certain circumstances to venture outside the prison.

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Sometimes they were allowed to drive trucks from prison to prison.

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Sometimes they were permitted outside in the presence of a guard to go run errands.

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The rationale was to reward prisoners for good behavior.

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That would help them both control the population as well as incentivize good conduct.

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He was in several art shows where he won awards.

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You see photographs of him standing there with these people that don't know who he is or what he did.

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He was a serial sex offender. Today we know that he's probably one of the last people you'd want to let in that program because of their recidivism rate or ability to reoffend.

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That was a real bad idea.

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As part of this furlough program, four prisoners along with Lester Eubanks were permitted to go on a Christmas shopping trip.

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Money in hand and he's in civilian attire.

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They were given instructions of course, hey, you go ahead and do your shopping for your families.

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You have to report back by 2pm.

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And rather than staying together as a group, they were permitted to leave the presence of the guard and be on their own shopping among the public.

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It was a period of two to three hours later where they were going to meet at a particular place.

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And when that time came, Lester Eubanks did not report back to the agreed meeting place.

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He avoided the electric chair. He avoided a lifetime in a prison cell. Lester Eubanks was allowed to walk away.

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What were they hoping to accomplish with this absurd program of taking up a child murderer to go Christmas shopping and not even having a guard stand beside him the entire time?

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It just is baffling.

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In my mom called me. She said, Sheriff called her and told her that he had escaped. She was her love set.

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I was angry and shocked and Christmas shopping is all we could think of for you to go Christmas shopping from prison.

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No one really knows how he escaped from the immediate area, Great Southern Shopping Center.

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But I don't think he could have done that if this was a spur of the moment decision by him.

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I think there had to have been planning. I think he had to have made some kind of arrangements in advance.

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It was found that when he was in prison, his visitation list was alarming.

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Eubanks had visitors regularly show up at the prison, but the visitations just prior to his escape truly escalated.

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You know, you go from once a month regularly for years to once a week and then all of a sudden you walk away. That's suspicious.

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It was pre-planned. It makes you believe that those visitors had a little bit of culpability.

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The theory was that someone from his family that supported him may have helped him, or it wouldn't have been so successful.

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His family was talked to. His associates were talked to. And they failed to surrender any information to where he was at.

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I don't know how anyone cannot think that this is premeditated. His ability to become an honor inmate.

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This is him earning the trust of the guards, earning the trust of the prison system.

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And it's his ability to become that chameleon to walk outside the walls.

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After Eubanks' escape, Franklin County Sheriff's Office put a local warrant in the system and the FBI took out a federal arrest warrant.

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This warrant is going to be a nationwide pickup, meaning that if he is caught anywhere in the continental United States, he's going to be arrested and brought back to Ohio.

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In December of 1993, I was a Detective Bureau Commander. I was a captain, and I thought, you know, we haven't heard a lot about Eubanks.

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Maybe he's been apprehended, and he didn't notify anybody, which might be a little crazy, but he checked in the computer.

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I would expect that the sea wanted an unlawful flight, felony escape from the penitentiary for the state of Ohio.

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So I discovered there were no warrants to be found. The federal warrant was removed from the database.

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So if no warrant was in there when he was encountered in a field interview situation or a car stop, with no warrant in the system, he would have been let go.

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And I discovered that nothing, no affirmative steps were being taken by any agency to try and bring this guy to justice.

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I thought this is unbelievable.

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It was just a lack of either required follow-up or a clerical kind of error that is the only explanation I have or that I can come up with.

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It should not have happened, but it did. You have to deal with it. So that's what we did.

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We thought maybe if we could get him exposed nationwide, we can get this guy.

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That's when we decided to try and get him exposed on America's most wanted.

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14-year-old Mary Ellen was exceptionally bright and responsible, but what happened that night?

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The night of the show, you get a call from a lady who watched the show and says, I know him.

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And I used to run around with him in Los Angeles back in the 70s.

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And according to her, you banks ended up living with K Banks, his cousin's widow.

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When the detectives in Ohio gave us the name of K Banks, a pair of detectives went down and met with her at her home.

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She was fearful that she would somehow be caught up in some trouble herself for harboring a fugitive.

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And so she wanted to cooperate.

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K told the detectives that he lived with her in Los Angeles, that he was no longer there.

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She said that she was originally from Ohio and K was married to Darrell Banks, you banks' cousin.

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And he was a pretty popular singer in Detroit back in the 60s. Darrell got shot and killed up in Detroit.

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She ended up out in California.

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She established a relationship with Lester through the prison walls. She was his pen pal.

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There is a photo of K in his jail cell.

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K had indicated that after you banks had walked away and affected his escape, he had found his way to Michigan

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and stayed there to see if he was going to be chased or not or how diligently.

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He was trying to paint houses in a local community in Michigan to earn money.

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He stayed there for a couple weeks and then someone put him on a bus because he didn't have any money and paid for a trip to California.

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Lester told K that when he gets to California, the bus was pulled over by law enforcement.

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And he's sitting there thinking, this is it, it's over.

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He thought he was going to go back to jail because he's an escaped prisoner that was a warrant for his arrest.

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Well, these guys were looking for illegal fruit being brought across state lines.

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Lester looked at him and smiled. And as they walked off the bus, he thought to himself, hey, this is it, I'm free. I got away.

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K Banks was surprised when she answered the door. She told us that she didn't know he planned to escape.

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He was using an assumed name of Victor Young.

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He went and got a hunting license to use as his ID because you'd have to get a fingerprint and he had it in his alias name.

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He's smart. He knows what it takes for him to stay out and he knows that he can.

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K told us about Lester's love of painting. I've seen pictures of some of the work that he did while in prison and he was talented. He was just evil.

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K Banks said that you banks, he was a real bully and she was intimidated by him.

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After so much intimidation, she decided she's got to come up with something to get him out of her life.

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She says, hey, I got a call today from the FBI or the police asking about you. And that was all it took.

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And according to her, that's the last she saw of him.

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K provided us with information about a location in Gardena where he had worked or was working in the manufacturing of mattresses.

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We went to that location and checked it.

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The former owner put Victor Young there up until the mid 80s, 85 or 86.

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We worked the case for the better part of two years until somewhere in 96 and you banks is still running.

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But it just got to the point where there was no more to do.

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I had never really heard about the murder until 2003 when I was tasked with looking into some things.

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A superior officer down in Columbus was looking at some older escape cases. So I was contacted.

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Basically told, hey, here's the case. Look into this and see what you can find.

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My initial thoughts were to look at you banks as father, Moes you banks.

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His father was the only known close relative that was living in this area at the time.

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So we went out there to just to see if he would talk to us.

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He says, well, I'll talk to you about anything you want, but I'm not going to talk to you about Lester.

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He went on to explain how he was frequently in the prisons trying to help inmates to turn their life around and that type of thing.

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And he says, well, you know, he says there's nothing I could nothing anyone can do to bring that girl back.

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And I simply ask him the question. I'm like, what do you think that justice was done in this case with your with your son?

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And he specifically he looked at me and he says people change and go on and start new lives.

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And he says, and I pray for Lester every day. And he says, that's all I'm going to say about Lester.

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We had a little bit of more conversation. And then my partner and I, we kind of looked at each other and we said, he knows exactly where Lester is at.

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While later, the detective with the man's police department talked to an informant that had told him that that same summer she had been out to Moes' house.

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Well, the lady said, well, when we were there, the phone rang and Moes excused himself and actually went into another room.

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And when he came back, he had told the lady that he was on the phone with his son in Alabama who was taking a break from painting a house.

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At that time, I'd already tracked down all of the siblings and there was none in Alabama at the time.

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So that kind of piqued my interest.

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I ended up getting a subpoena to get his Moes' phone records.

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And lo and behold, there were several calls during that time frame that were coming and going to a Center for Troubled Youth.

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And there was a black male that was near that, you know, description of Lester height and age working at this place.

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This guy in question did not have a driver's license. He didn't drive.

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And so security number was coming back as a false social security number too.

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So that kind of triggered me thinking, okay, it might be Lester.

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Unfortunately, the person in question that they were talking about had actually left there a couple months prior to us kind of digging into it.

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I remember thinking to myself, if it was him, if it was Lester, we were able to get pretty close, but at the same token, you know, here we are all these years later.

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Moes' U banks was a supposed man of the cloth and he was willing to forgive and forget.

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He was willing to forgive his son for this brutal murder and he was willing to forget about Mary Ellen Deener, the poor child that he murdered.

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It's just tragic. He got to live his life and she didn't.

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He'd never asked for forgiveness. He could have asked in court and he could have had his dad ask my mom, please forgive him.

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Nobody has even said anything to my family from that family.

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I've been a police officer for 40 years and this is the biggest miscarriage of justice that I've ever seen. I just can't forget about it. I won't forget about it.

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This guy needs to be captured. He needs to be apprehended and pay for this heinous crime that he committed. But law enforcement can't do it by themselves. We have to get the profile out for people to see.

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Marshal Service, we fight for those who can't fight for themselves. Mary Ellen Deener cannot fight for herself.

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In July of 2018, I started to push forward with Lester U banks being put on a 15 most wanted. These are the type of cases that they're alleged to be the un-catchables.

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You make that list. That means you are the worst of the worst.

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Lester U banks is friends and associates throughout many states. Florida, Texas, Alabama, California, Washington. Someone's going to identify him. Someone's going to bring him to justice.

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Lester's got a huge scar on his right arm. It's about probably an inch and it wraps all the way around his right arm and it's pretty thick and it's pretty identifiable.

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The other thing is he was extremely talented painter and I still think today that might be one of the things that could help identify who he is.

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The United States Marshal Service is offering a reward for $25,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and I would be more than happy to provide that person with that money.

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It's important that Lester is called because he was given a life sentence. He took my sister's life. She didn't get an extension. Her life is over.

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And the law said that's what should happen with him. Living but still, not free. I want him caught.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.