US EditionU.S. Marshals Extract DNA that Could Help Renew Search for Escaped Inmate Lester Eubanks
MANSFIELD, OHIO, AUG 5 – Authorities extracted DNA from Lester Eubanks' clothing and entered it into the Combined DNA Index System, renewing efforts to capture the fugitive with a $50,000 reward offered for information.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service Cold Case Unit announced it had recovered DNA from Lester Eubanks' clothing worn the night of the murder and entered it into CODIS.
- Since 2016, the United States Marshals Service Cold Case Unit has followed hundreds of leads and conducted dozens of interviews nationally and internationally after the case was turned over to them.
- A jury convicted Lester Eubanks of murder and rape on May 25, 1966, and sentenced him to death two days later, authorities say.
- The United States Marshals Service Cold Case Unit is offering a $50,000 reward for tips leading to Lester Eubanks's arrest, authorities hope the public can provide new information.
- A correct tip could allow matching the DNA to pinpoint Lester Eubanks's location, said Pete Elliott, U.S. Marshal for Northern Ohio, with authorities hopeful it will help find him.
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U.S. Marshals extract DNA that could help renew search for escaped inmate Lester Eubanks
U.S. Marshals announced that after 60 years investigators were able to extract DNA from escaped inmate Lester Eubanks' clothes and enter it into the Combined DNA Index System.Eubanks' whereabouts have been unknown since the 1970s.On November 14, 1965, 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener was walking to the laundromat in Mansfield to help her family with laundry when Eubanks brutally murdered her. Marshals release new age progression photos of Lester Eu…
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