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| After 47 Years As a Fugitive, Georgia Man Finishing Term |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/08/2001 |
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When J.C. Fuller complained to an officer that he saw poisonous cottonmouth snakes in a stream where his convict road gang had been ordered to work, the officer shrugged and told him, 'There's the road. . . .' 'I hit the road the next morning,' said Fuller. The escaped convict enjoyed freedom for the next 47 years, the longest any Georgia inmate has been on the lam. Authorities tracked him down last year in Miami, where he had been living under his real name, doing construction work, and 'staying out of trouble.' 'The good Lord just blessed me to stay out,' said the 76-year-old Fuller, who now has a month left to serve on his original four-year sentence for attempted murder. 'I worked, I went to church, and I went fishing. I had to be doing all right to stay out that long.' Fuller, who was given no additional prison time for his escape, said he was never concerned about getting caught. 'I voted for President Carter and President Clinton. I worked. I had a little money, clothes, and a place to stay. I didn't have anything to worry about,' he said. The Georgia Department of Corrections' fugitive squad tracked Fuller down during a review of old case files early last year. Fuller is serving out his sentence at the Hardwick Men's Prison, home to 650 elderly men, in a large brick building surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with coils of silvery razor wire. |
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