A man who escaped the prison used in Shawshank Redemption has finally been caught after 56 years, the Washington Post reports. Unlike the film, this isn't a case of a man wrongly accused freeing himself. Frank Freshwaters was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a pedestrian with his car in 1957. His sentence was suspended, but he violated his probation two years later by driving once again.
Freshwaters was originally sent to the Ohio State Reformatory, where Shawshank was filmed, before being transferred to an "honor camp." That's where he escaped from and started 56 years on the run under the name William Harold Cox.
Freshwaters was arrested once in West Virginia while using the alias, but the governor refused to extradite him to Ohio. He continued to use the same name after being freed, which made it relatively effortless to find him. His fake name shows up in a cursory public records search, according to the Washington Post.
After a week of surveillance, U.S. marshals moved in on Freshwaters at his Florida home. When they showed him his 56-year-old mugshot he didn't try and hide his identity, saying, "You got me."
Now dude has 18 more years of his sentence to serve.
