U.S. Marshals by Mike Earp

Author:Mike Earp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Once the Marshals Service had Hantman’s alias it became much easier to track him. Like so many other fugitives, Hantman may have been relying on the fact that local law enforcement didn’t have the authority, or the manpower, to pursue him out of state. Three weeks after he had been properly identified, deputies arrested him outside a Lewiston, Idaho, motel. He was returned to prison—and eventually he killed himself. No one knows for certain how many crimes he committed during the twenty-year period after escaping from St. Elizabeth’s, but there is strong speculation he may have been involved in several other unsolved murders.

DEPUTIES NEVER KNOW what they’re going to learn when they start asking questions, and no matter how many years a deputy has been doing the job, no matter how many questions he or she has asked of how many hundreds and thousands of people, there still are going to be surprises. During a sweep of old and cold cases, Bill Noble went to speak with a man about a relative who had escaped from prison almost two decades earlier and hadn’t been seen since. It was a case that had come from another federal agency. Noble wasn’t expecting much of anything when he sat down with the man and started talking to him. So he was surprised when the man suddenly broke down and started sobbing. That definitely was not the reaction he had been expecting.

I sat there and let him cry, then explained to him that sometimes it’s really tough to do the right thing, but in the end it works out best for everyone. And then this man told me, “I’ve been waiting for over twenty years for someone to ask me what you just asked me.” He proceeded to tell me the name this relative had been living under and what city he was living in. I went back to the office and did a computer search and found his exact address. Then I called the Marshals Service office in that city and told the supervisor that I really didn’t trust my informant not to have second thoughts about what he’d done and call up to warn the fugitive. “I need deputies to respond right away,” I said. They did, and they found him at the address I gave them and arrested him.

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