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Have You Seen This Man?

ABC News

True Crime

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For years, Ohio's prisons operated as menacing dungeons, with inmates facing unchecked violence of the sort depicted in Hollywood movies. But Lester Eubanks arrives at the Ohio State Penitentiary in the midst of a prison reform movement. And he capitalizes on a brief window of opportunity. Tell us what you think about this series with a rating and review: http://bit.ly/2O38DdC "Have You Seen This Man?" is produced by the award-winning ABC News Investigative Unit and ABC Audio, the makers of the #1-rated "The Dropout" and "A Killing on the Cape" podcasts as well as the award-winning daily news series "Start Here." For more: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com and http://www.abcnews.com/thisman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last time, the murder of Mary Ellen was brutal, but it wasn't the only thing that caught
0:08.0	our attention.
0:09.0	A human being doesn't do that.
0:11.0	A monster does.
0:12.0	It's what happened after her killer.
0:14.0	A man named Lester U-Banks was convicted and sent to prison.
0:18.0	That's when the story took a jagged, real crazy turn.
0:23.0	I'm Sunny Hauston.
0:24.0	Over the past year, a team from the ABC News Investigative Unit has followed the case of Lester
0:29.0	U-Banks, and they have joined the manhunt by US Marshals who are trying to solve one of
0:34.0	the oldest fugitive cases in American history.
0:38.0	Now, they may be closer than ever.
0:41.0	From ABC News, this is Have You Seen This Man?
0:50.0	When a person is sent to death row, the plan is for them to leave on a gurney.
0:56.0	Sometimes, there's a twist.
0:58.0	You'll hear about cases being overturned or daring escapes that involve tunneling through
1:03.0	this sewer or chipping away at a prison wall.
1:06.0	But that's not what happened to Lester U-Banks.
1:10.0	If you want to understand how Lester was able to escape, you have to look back at the Ohio
1:16.0	Prison System where he was sent.
1:19.0	There were two main prisons at the time.
1:22.0	Lester was held in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, which has been torn down.
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