: 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
: 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
The episode (Season 2, Episode 3) of the Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries focuses on the baffling escape and decades-long evasion of Lester Eubanks . The Case: The Murder of Mary Ellen Deener : In 1972, after the Supreme Court briefly
: In December 1973, prison officials remarkably allowed Eubanks and several other inmates to go Christmas shopping at a mall in Columbus, Ohio, entirely unsupervised . : In 1972