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Lester Eubanks (born October 31, 1943) is an American criminal and fugitive who murdered 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener on November 14, 1965, in Mansfield, Ohio. He was sentenced to death at the Ohio State Penitentiary , which was changed to a sentence of life in prison in 1972.
Mar 29, 2021 · Lester Eubanks, then 22 years old, was convicted of the murder of Mary Ellen Deener in 1966. She was 14. Authorities also alleged that he tried to rape her.
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Oct 18, 2020 · Mary Ellen Deener was shot twice in the stomach, and her head had been bashed in with a brick, so badly that her skull was shattered. Some of the coins for the laundromat were still in her lifeless hand, while the others were scattered nearby. It was clear that this was a horrific homicide.
- The Murder of Mary Ellen Deener
- Lester Eubanks Escapes Justice
- How Eubanks Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight For Decades
- Where Is Lester Eubanks Today?
By the time Lester Eubanks murdered Mary Ellen Deener, a 14-year-old Mansfield, Ohio girl, he had already committed a series of sexual offenses. But the attack on Deener on Nov. 14, 1965 is the one that landed him in prison. On that day, Mary Ellen Deener and her younger sister, 12-year-old Brenda Sue, were doing laundry. Out of change, Deener walk...
For the seven years Lester Eubanks was in jail, he acted like a model prisoner. The inmate was even profiled while still on Death Row in 1972 by The Columbus Dispatchin an article on incarcerated artists. The publication deemed him “the best of the Death Row” painters and photographed him next to his Angela Davis tryptic. The three images showed Da...
Law enforcement officer John Arcudi was in high school when Deener was killed. As head of the Detective Bureau of the Mansfield Police Department, he started digging into Eubanks’ disappearance in the early 1990s. He was shocked to find the National Crime Information Center hadn’t listed him as wanted. That meant Eubanks could’ve been caught speedi...
Arcudi notified the LAPD of his search for Lester Eubanks and found a cooperative detective in Tim Conner. The duo teamed up to check out a mattress factory in Gardena, California where an anonymous source said Eubanks worked. “I don’t think he ever took employment that ever did any background check. He was a guy who didn’t lay his head in any one ...
Lester Eubanks was serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener when he walked away from a prison-sanctioned Christmas shopping trip in December 1973.
Mar 17, 2017 · Lester Eubanks grabbed Mary Ellen as she walked along the sidewalk. He dragged her behind a house in the 300 block of North Mulberry Street, raped her, shot her twice and left her for dead.
Jul 10, 2023 · Mary Ellen had justice, her family had closure…until the opportunistic Eubanks saw his chance and took it, just like he stole a young girl’s life nearly sixty years ago. He does not deserve ...
