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Stolen Lives True Crime

40: Mary Ellen Deener

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The murder of Mary Ellen Deener and the escape of Lester Edward Eubanks


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0:00.0

Working from home, late afternoon is dragging into evening, each video call melting into one,

0:08.4

stretching and melting, like stringy mozzarella on a piping hot pizza delivered by Uber Eats.

0:15.6

And those video tiles on screen are tiles of succulent ham wallowing on that melting

0:20.9

mozzarella bed. Search Pizza Hut for easy ordering on Uber Eats.

0:25.4

Don't drool, you're on camera. Check the Uber Eats app for geographical restrictions and

0:29.4

availability.

0:45.0

You know, November 1965, Mansfield, Ohio.

0:51.3

14-year-old Mary Ellen Dina walked the short walk to get some change from the laundromat.

0:56.8

Little did she know this innocent errand for her mother would result in her brutal death and one of the most high-profile man hunts in the United States history, spanning four decades.

1:05.7

Lester Eubanks was serving a life sentence in prison when he was given permission in December

1:10.6

1973 to spend the day out of jail for good behaviour to do some Christmas

1:15.7

shopping at the local mall. He would not return to the agreed meeting place

1:20.6

and would disappear without a trace, never to be seen again. This is Mary's story.

1:32.2

It was 1965 when Mary Ellen Deiner, a 14-year-old in Mansfield,

1:38.1

left a laundromat to get change and encountered her killer Lester Eubanks. The son of a preacher,

1:43.9

he bludgeoned the girl to death in what appeared to be an attempted rape. Then he confessed. It was an open and shut case.

1:46.0

Mm-hmm, yeah.

1:48.0

Up until this night, 45 years ago in 1973,

1:52.0

prison guards took Eubanks to a mall in Columbus to go Christmas shopping,

1:56.0

a reward for good behavior.

1:58.0

And he walked out, never to be seen again, something Deiner's family will

2:02.2

never understand. And it was just, poof, just disappeared. When they kind of detected my mom,

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