Lester Eubanks attempted to rape and then brutally beat 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener to death in Mansfield, Ohio in the US in 1965.
He was caught by cops and sentenced to death but it was later changed to life in prison.
After spending several years in police custody Lester managed to escape in 1975 and he has remained on the run for 47 years.
Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries returns for a second series tonight and casts an eye on Eubank’s long-running cat and mouse game with police.
In the “Death Row Fugitive” episode it is revealed that after attacking Mary he went home to get ready for a night out.
Lester Eubanks attempted to rape and then brutally beat 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener to death (Image: USMarshals.gov)
On his way back out he spotted that his poor victim was alive and then brutally beat her to death with a brick.
He was quickly arrested and admitted to murdering Deener.
He was later sentenced to death much to the delight of Mary’s family – but it was changed to life behind bars in 1972.
The next year he ran away from prison guards at a shopping mall after being allowed out of the jail to go Christmas shopping.
What detectives think Eubanks looks like now (Image: U.S. Marshals Service)
But where is Eubanks now?
There was no trace of him for decades but police received a tip about his whereabouts when the fugitive was mentioned on US TV programme “America’s Most Wanted” in 1994.
The woman told how Eubanks had been living with his cousin’s widow in California during the 1970s and she confirmed this with dectectives.
It was then discovered that he had an alias called Victor Young and had moved to California after he was kicked out of the widow’s home.
Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2 returns for a second series tonight and casts an eye on Eubank’s long-running cat and mouse game with police (Image: U.S. Marshals Service)
After he was kicked out of the widow’s home, he is believed to have moved to Gardena, California where he got a job at a mattress factory until the mid 80s.
According to ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ he also spent time in Alabama in the early 2000s.
In 2018, Eubanks was put the FBI’s Most Wanted list and is considered to be a highly dangerous man, the Oxy Gen reported.
It was also thought that same year that he might have been living in the Detroit area, Fox2 Detroit reported.
Last year U.S. Marshals announced that they collected DNA from a man who believes he is Eubanks’ biological son.
The man claims that Eubanks had raped his mother, ABC News reported.
Marshalls have since been trying to match samples of that gathered DNA to unsolved crime scene evidence in hopes of finding him.
However, that effort resulted in roadblocks as using a relative’s DNA to search is prohibited by FBI policy.
Eubanks has a large scar on his upper right arm which wraps all the way around his arm.
Deputy US Marshal David Siler believes after escaping Eubanks was picked up by a close friend and made his way to California.
He also reckons Eubanks had a lover in north Hollywood and told how he wrote his name as Victor Young in oil paintings he drew.
Siler told Fox Detroit: “We’re looking for that one piece of the puzzle that closes this case – and it might be just outside of Detroit.
“It could be in an oil painting.
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