Ohio man who had been on the run since 1959 re-arrested in Florida
Movie The Shawshank Redemption was made at the same jail from which convict escaped
When Frank Freshwaters escaped from an Ohio prison in 1959, Dwight Eisenhower was president, and Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba.
By the time deputy sheriffs in West Virginia found Freshwaters in 1975, Gerald Ford was president, Watergate conspirators were headed to prison, and Bill Gates was co-founding an upstart company called Microsoft.
But the fugitive wasn't in custody for long. He was released after West Virginia's governor refused to extradite him, and he soon went into hiding.
Freshwaters' 56 years of freedom ended at a remote Melbourne, Florida, trailer on Monday when officials with the US Marshals Service and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office showed up with an old mug shot.
"We showed him the picture and said, 'Hey, have you seen this guy?' and he looked at it and said, 'Not in a very long time,'" said Major Tod Goodyear from the Sheriff's Office.
"At that time they confronted him with the information they had, and he admitted to them that they were right."
Freshwaters, 79, had been living under the fake name of William H Cox.