CLEVELAND — U.S. Marshals announced that after 60 years investigators were able to extract DNA from escaped inmate Lester Eubanks' clothes and enter it into the Combined DNA Index System.

Eubanks' whereabouts have been unknown since the 1970s.

On November 14, 1965, 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener was walking to the laundromat in Mansfield to help her family with laundry when Eubanks brutally murdered her. Marshals release new age progression photos of Lester Eubanks

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A jury convicted him and sentenced him to death. In 1972, his sentence was commuted to life in prison.

On Dec. 7, 1973, Eubanks was allowed to go Christmas shopping in the Columbus area with other inmates. He never returned.

The Marshals' cold case u

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