Man who escaped Ohio prison in ’78 caught in Minnesota

Thirty-seven years ago, convicted Toledo murderer Oscar Juarez put a dummy in the bed of his cell, sawed through his prison bars and escaped from Ohio’s Marion Correctional Institution.

Oscar Juarez, 66, one of Ohio’s most wanted fugitives, was taken into custody Thursday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, at an apartment building on a tree-lined street.

Over the years, Juarez used multiple fake identities to hide from police.

Ohio prison escapee Oscar Juarez was on the lam for 37 years until his capture Thursday.

The arrest was credited to information provided by the Cleveland U.S. Marshals Cold Case Unit.

This is now the eighth case the squad has solved since it began in February, according to U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott and Ohio Adult Parole Authority Regional Director Todd Ishee.

Investigators are still trying to figure out where Juarez is originally from or if any family members helped him.

The marshals were able to positively identify him using fingerprints, the paper said.

A convicted murderer who escaped from an Ohio prison in 1978 by cutting through cell bars and a fence was captured in Minnesota’s capital, where he had a job delivering newspapers, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday. “It wasn’t one thing that led us to his doorstep”. We will continue to work on catching the uncatchable. Juarez was living under the identity of Eleasor Morales Moreno, a woman who died in 1992, in a St. Paul apartment located near schools and Hamline University. “What our investigators have accomplished in the first eight months is outstanding and I am extremely proud of them”. Reward money is available and tipsters may remain anonymous.