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Man who spent 48 years as fugitive dies in Connecticut

HARTFORD — A man who spent 48 years as a fugitive before being found this year in Sherman has died at the age of 71. An attorney for Robert Stackowitz told the ...
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HARTFORD — A man who spent 48 years as a fugitive before being found this year in Sherman has died at the age of 71.

An attorney for Robert Stackowitz told the Hartford Courant his client was taken to a hospital over the weekend and died Monday as the result of numerous health complications.

Stackowitz escaped from a prison work camp in Carrolton, Georgia, in 1968 while serving a 17-year sentence for robbery. He was arrested at his home in Sherman in May.

A Connecticut judge in October dropped a fugitive-from-justice charge against Stackowitz.

Georgia officials had withdrawn their extradition request and accepted a parole supervision plan after learning that Stackowitz has serious health problems, including heart failure and bladder cancer.

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