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Florida murderer caught 32 years after prison escape

      This combo made from photos provided by the Florida Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Frederick Barrett in 1979, left, and on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Barrett, who escaped from …more a Florida prison in 1979 while serving a life sentence for murder, was arrested Wednesday outside the town of Montrose, Colo.

    Authorities on Wednesday captured a man in Colorado who escaped nearly 32 years ago from the Florida prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder.

Frederick Barrett, 60, slipped away from the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford during a nighttime power outage on August 17, 1979.

U.S. Marshals Service officers, dressed as U.S. Forest Service firefighters, arrested Barrett early on Wednesday at his cabin in Montrose County, Colorado. He had been living in the remote, mountainous area under the name Neil Meltzer, Florida officials said.

A tattoo of a cross and dot on his right hand helped officers confirm they had the right man, said Steve Davenport, a special agent supervisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Davenport said investigators had been looking for Barrett in earnest since 2009, when a new fugitive initiative in Florida set its sights on finding a dozen long-term prison escapees with violent histories.

"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.

In addition to escape charges in Florida, Barrett now faces drug and gun charges in Colorado after marshals found a marijuana grow house and multiple firearms in his home, officials said.

Barrett was convicted of killing a traveling companion on the Florida Turnpike in February 1971.

According to officials, he choked Carl Ardolino from behind as Ardolino was driving. Barrett and another man then stopped the car, carried Ardolino to a shallow ditch filled with water and held his head underneath until he died.

Margaret Archer, Ardolino's niece, said her 26-year-old uncle had picked the men up at a rest stop as he drove from New Jersey to Florida for a vacation.

The deceased man's family members welcomed the news of Barrett's capture after so many years.

"Unbelievable," Archer said. "We were thrilled to say the least."


Can this happen in NIGERIA

@poster you should follow your mind, but remember what goes around comes around, would you accept the same thing, if yes its a free world, and am quiet sure you have been hoping to date dis lady in ? for a long time, you just using dis opportunity to get what you have always desired all along, but be just and fair in whatever you do, make your decision yourself, cos no one would be there when the table turns around, mind you it might be your best friend and your fiancee, that's just the truth, it hurts.

This thread has been peaceful before Chino made his contribution, so sure you are from the east, mind you when do you hear fo kidnaping and bombing in the west, if you have got hatred for the yorubas let that be your personal problem and if you think you cant stand living with us go on exile, moreover you are just an article of no commercial value, wasted commodity,

yeah u r rite, so GEJ should be praised for also not doing sumfin to the issue of education,electricity,bad roads,fall in the standard of education, boko harams, lol, funny

are we talking about GEJ or Nigeria, u kip screaming GEJ, what has he got to do with this, we talking about what impact bin the 2nd highest OPEC exporter of oil has on the economy, you keep mentioning GEJ,

@nuclear boy, am really impressed with your write up and contributions, but my observation about you is that you are quiet biased with your judgment, your response does not correlate to the topic been discussed, all you do is talk, you aint pragmatic and go off point,

We would never say the truth based on religious sentiment, I pray this country moves forward, GEJ is a mere jester, has no plan for us, Nigeria is the 2nd highest OPEC exporter of oil, has that brought development to the country or stopped the kidnapping and killings in the country, does that prevent the labour union from going on strike, does it stop corruption,improves the standard of education,good roads,what does the common man benefit from this, what has GEJ done so far, be sincere with your self and stop been biased,

A 4.99 GPA, is highly ridiculous, that cant happen in a federal university, even a genius would find it hard to attain that, abeg make em go federal university make dem grade am, i swear if em survive wif 3.2 i swear i go bow, wana set record abi cu

whatever, you are not bin forced to bank with them, keep banking with those dirty selfish banks,

nonsense, no job and you are creating more universities, to breed touts,

too bad, if dis crime was committed by a Muslim, we wont rest,

who says yorubas are afraid of disintegration, gibberish, Niger delta would kill themselves over oil money now, and thier region wont grow, so why all the noise about the yorubas, moreova we aint talking about disintegration here, people like you are the cause of naijas problem, na people like you boko haram and those Niger delta millitants dey deal wif,

Good governance entails setting an agenda, do you just wake up everyday without having a plan for that day, fink,

If ALLAH wills, you would get to the top, BUHARI, you have tried your best, lets watch, lets see what the future would look like,

buhari has been one of the most successful leader Nigeria as a country has ever had, with all fairness to buhari, he is an achiever and believe he is the best candidate, lets juxtapose the success of all our past leaders and see who really have the interest of the people in mind, what has GEJ got to offer, what has he achieved in the past 7 months, lets be sincere and face the reality, so many Nigerians are comfortable living in poverty and this has been the reason why we have failed to support the right people, lets think of the future of Nigeria,of that of the coming generation,those that are yet to be born, lets work towards leaving behind a good legacy, lets stop been bias, forget about the differences in religion,ethnicity,culture, lets all put the interest of NIGERIA first, please vote the right candidate, search your mind, conscience, you know the truth, you know who is best for the county,

@aribisa, what a question, your question sound so stupid to me and does not really need an answer, fashola has tried and if at all you want to criticise you do that constructively, what have you contributed to the society or your enviroment in the past 4 years, and juxtapose that with fasholas achievement, nd you would see fashola is an achiever, you see been a member of a political party does not mean you should sound so stupid or act blindly, please lets be realistic and quiet pragmatic in whatever we say of post, lets engage in indepth thinking before posting any comment.if you dont know what he has achieved then you must be a big fool for such a question, so irritating and an unintelligent question to ask, @aribisal your intelligence quotient is quiet low, less dan 20%,

@beaf why did you come up with this thread, did fashola and tinubu ever announce to the pulic that they have got some misunderstanding or issues, or has fashola complained to you that he is tired of ACN or wants to leave for another party, as a rational thinking human being i believe a thread like this shouldnt have come up, cos i dont really know the correlation between FASHOLA,TINUBU.leaving for PDP or overthrowing TINUBU, it doesnt make sense to me, please dont try and distract ACN as a party, and the supporters of ACN, dont believe threads like this should be posted next time,

freecocoa how far.

is it morally right to v sex before marriage, how many of u haven't loose their virginity, far far before marriage, now you condemn the lady for that little act, many are worse than her.

now i see, complex, stupidity, biased mind, dumb and morons, we were colonized by Britain, Christians, we were been enslaved, tortured, dehumanized, were thy not Christians, those were the worst moment i the country's history, now u r here bluffing, bluffing.

everyone has a point, but the truth is we are all guilty of immoralities in one way or the other and at one point or the other in life.lets not condemn just to make people feel u r pure, (Charles Novia), let him come out and say that he has neva bin part of anything immoral in his entire life or in his profession, hidden or publicly, immoralities are immoralities. so let her breath

InesQor:
This thread is classical evidence that people are faster to speak than to listen. Rather than read the ongoing discussion, they only want to have their voices heard. Pity. . .

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what r u trying to say, does the thread make sense to you, pls we need some clarity on it,

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