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| Convicted Killer Returned to Same Prison She Escaped 32 Years Earlier |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/10/2002 |
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Thirty-two years after she climbed the prison fence and escaped, Margo Freshwater walked back into the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she is to remain for the next quarter century. The 54-year-old convicted killer will not be eligible for release until at least 2029 when she is 81. Freshwater had married, raised three children and was living in Columbus, Ohio, as Tonya McCartor when investigators tracking the fugitive arrested her May 19. Her husband, Daryl McCartor, said the evidence he heard at her extradition hearing Wednesday made him accept for the first time that his wife is Freshwater. ''The proof is there, and I'm not going to argue that point,'' he said. But he said that ''doesn't change the way I feel about my wife. She was a victim of circumstance or coercion.'' Freshwater was an 18-year-old high school dropout in 1966 when she and Glenn Nash, her boyfriend's attorney, went on a three-week robbery and murder spree. Authorities say the two killed a liquor store clerk in Tennessee, a convenience store clerk in Florida and a cab driver in Mississippi before they were arrested at a Mississippi bus station. Nash was found insane by courts in all three states and confined to psychiatric hospitals until 1983. Freshwater was convicted of killing the clerk in Memphis and sentenced to 99 years in prison. She said she didn't kill anyone but did what Nash said because he threatened to kill her. Freshwater spent for 18 months in the Tennessee Prison for Women before climbing the fence in 1970 and escaping. In court Wednesday, her daughter, Angie Hudkins, 29, sobbed as the judge ordered the extradition. Freshwater mouthed ''I love you'' to her family, then shouted, ''Everything's going to be fine,'' as she was escorted from the courtroom. Freshwater was quiet on the drive back to Tennessee, said Department of Correction spokesman Steve Hayes. The prison she arrived at Wednesday afternoon is much more secure than when she escaped, including the addition of several rows of razor wire on the fences, he said. Freshwater was placed in a single cell, segregated from other prisoners. She is to serve at least 27 more years. |
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