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Extreme Cold Helps Capture ’70s Prison Escapee
By fox17online- Ann Marie LaFlamme
Published: 02/06/2014

SAN DIEGO (Feb 5, 2014) – What started as a few days stuck on desk duty is leading investigators with the Michigan Department of Corrections to prison escapees around the country.

Now that convicted murderer Michael Elliot is back in custody, attention is shifting to a mother of three who was arrested after being on the run for more than 30 years.

Judy Lynn Hayman, 60, escaped an Ypsilanti prison in 1977 while serving time for larceny. She was arrested in San Diego Monday after new fingerprint scans led police to her alias, Jamie Lewis.

Investigators with the Michigan Department of Corrections are required to take a look at their cold cases once a year.

This year, they took an extra step, converting fugitive fingerprints from paper to digital and sending them to the FBI crime lab in Virginia for analysis.

Investigators took a look at cold cases while stuck on desk duty during the extremely cold winter weather.

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