Inmate found 35 years after escape

[northskater110]

A convicted murderer who escaped from an Indiana prison 35 years ago was found living quietly in a small Tennessee town, authorities said Tuesday.

Linda Darby, 64, was arrested Friday in Pulaski, a small city near the Alabama border where she was going by the name Linda Joe McElroy.

Giles County Sheriff Kyle Helton said he was acquainted with Darby and thought she had been living in Pulaski for at least 30 years.

"As far as I know she never had any criminal history after she came here," he said. "She never got into any trouble. She led a flawless life."

Darby was sentenced to life in prison in 1970 for her husband's murder, but she escaped from the Indiana Women's Prison in March 1972 by climbing over a barbed-wire fence.

Pulaski Police Capt. John Dickey said investigators in Indiana had contacted the department about Darby and authorities from both states worked together to find and arrest her.

Helton said she was being held at the county jail and has waived an extradition hearing. She was expected to be moved to Indiana on Tuesday.



Wow. Just wow.

[Hyper]

Fucking stupid.. Stick an old woman to jail..

Of course I or anyone else who doesn't know her, can tell if she's really a cruel murderor or not.. But yeah

You live a quiet life without doing shit for 30 years and get married, and then one day when your old, problably a grandmother you get arrested and thrown in jail for life

[0=]

Obviously she's reformed...

[Maverick]

Fucking stupid.. Stick an old woman to jail..

Of course I or anyone else who doesn't know her, can tell if she's really a cruel murderor or not.. But yeah

You live a quiet life without doing shit for 30 years and get married, and then one day when your old, problably a grandmother you get arrested and thrown in jail for life
For murdering someone, she doesn't deserve any sympathy. She ended someone's entire life and for 35 years gotten away with it. I'm glad she's caught.

[serial-thrilla]

yeah shes a murderer who hasent been paying her debt to society for years. If anything she deserves a much harsher punishment.

[0=]

Actually, she is paying a debt. She has been paying taxes for 35 years rather than sucking them up and also seems to have become a model citizen.

[Hyper]

Yeah well maybe her husband deserved it? I am just using my imagination here..

Her husband could've been some bastard or maybe he wasn't it doesn't matter..

Hmm I don't recall the article mentioning was it planned or unplanned murder?

[serial-thrilla]

Actually, she is paying a debt. She has been paying taxes for 35 years rather than sucking them up and also seems to have become a model citizen. That doesent matter in the slightest, i pay taxes through my job, big deal EVERYONE does. It also doesent matter that now shes a good citizen. She is a murderer, who broke the law twice, once by killing, then again by escaping from jail. She deserves what she gets.

[0=]

It would have cost roughly a million dollars to keep her in prison for 35 years. I think it's better in this particular case for the person to be helping society. That million dollars has funded those in need over the years, rather than making someone suffer.

[RaisingSand]

For murdering someone, she doesn't deserve any sympathy. She ended someone's entire life and for 35 years gotten away with it. I'm glad she's caught.


I agree. Just because she kept her nose clean for the last 35 years doesn't mean she deserves to just skip around and live out the rest of her life.
She took someone's life. This does not change and IMO she still deserves the punishment she originally got stuck with.

[serial-thrilla]

It would have cost roughly a million dollars to keep her in prison for 35 years. I think it's better in this particular case for the person to be helping society. That million dollars has funded those in need over the years, rather than making someone suffer.so they saved a bit of money, so its ok that a murderer lived in society with all of us for 35 years?

[0=]

Yeah, pretty much. The whole point is to keep a dangerous person out of society, and she obviously isn't dangerous anymore.

[RaisingSand]

Yeah, but that's not the point. She still ended someone's life and broke out of prison, which is where she deserves to be.

[serial-thrilla]

exactly

[0=]

I don't think revenge is the solution in this case.

[serial-thrilla]

no, its about sending a convicted murderer to jail, so she can serve the time that she was originally sentenced to.

[0=]

Prison is a revenge punishment.