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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Escaped killer he s like a Little time bomb out there by David s. Martin associated Pressl Avonne Rimer of Luthersburg pa., spent almost 20 years trying to keep her daughter s murderer behind bars. Last year he escaped and Rimer believes he is capable of killing again. Police investigators agree. He s like a Little time bomb out there said slate trooper Raymond Fratangelo. Who is working on the Case. Some officer May pull him Over for a broken Tail Light and get shot without even knowing  on april 28,1966. Jon e. Yount stopped Pamela sue Rimer As she walked Home from her school bus Stop. He beat raped and stabbed the 18-year-old High school senior before sliding her Throat authorities said. Pamela sue an honors student who Rode horses played the clarinet in the school band and planned to enrol at Penn state University on a scholarship was buried in her prom dress. Her classmates Laid their graduation lassies across her grave. Yount who had been Pamela sue s math teacher was twice convicted of first degree murder once of rape. Rimer worked constantly to ensure Yount did t have his life sentence commuted. She wrote to politicians and led petition drives for Yount s nine Pardon hearings gathering As Many As 13,000 signatures in Luthersburg a Rural Coal and farm Community in Central Pennsylvania. Yount escaped april 5,1986, while on an unsupervised farm detail at Rockview slate correctional institution. He d been a Model prisoner for 20 years. Who d have thought he was going to go said trooper William f. Madden who Heads the investigation. Madden said Yount apparently walked to a nearby Road and fled in a car with Diane Brodbeck a woman who had visited inmates Wilh a Church group. In 21 months since Yount s escape police have received a number of leads including alleged sightings in Central Maryland and in stale College pa., and information that he was in Montreal Madden said. The last Lead came in november. For a time investigators thought Yount might have written a Book tilled vanish disappearing through . Acquisition under the name Johnny Yount. The Book describes How a person can change identities and vanish but authorities determined Johnny Yount was the pen name of a los Angeles writer. Jon e. Yount now 49, holds a master s degree in education and Learned computer programming in prison. He also travelled Between prisons As an organist and headed the prison chapter of the Jaycees. The Way he manipulates people he could be in any Selling. He could be teaching. He could be data processing Madden said. Madden believes Yount will eventually be recaptured. He s not god. He s not  Young met Brodbeck in 1983 when he was at Camp Hill state prison and she was a Volunteer for lutheran social services in Harrisburg a. According to Madden Brodbeck 40, married Wilh two children and one grandchild began visiting and writing to Yount. She continued to see Yount after he Transf red to Rockview about 100 Miles away in september 1985. Yount s letters to Brodbeck were full of sexual overtones Madden said. To sent them to a Post office in Lewisberry where Brodbeck had rented a Box using her Middle and Maiden names Brenda Warner the trooper said. He May actually have cared for her but after december 1985 he saw her As a Way to get out Madden said. Ii he was a manipulator and used her Only As a Means for escape then she s dead  besides his petitions to the pardons Board Yount had two trials in Clearfield county and a Federal Appeal for Freedom thai failed before the . Supreme court. In december 1985, a petition for a third trial was denied. F. Cortez Bell Iii assistant District attorney in Clearfield county believes Yount fled when it appeared All his Legal avenues had been closed. Young consistently Felt the sentence he received was unfair said Bell who argued before the supreme court in Yount s Case. Young Hough he should have been convicted of second degree murder Lor a non premedical de slaying which then carried a 10 to 20-year sentence Bell said. Three months after Young s final Appeal Brodbeck withdrew $7,410 irom a $7,500 Bank account. At 1 . The Day of his escape Young was dropped off by a labor Foreman about a mile from the prison to drive a tractor on a farm detail. The Foreman discovered him missing at 3 30. Walter Regel an off duty prison guard observed Brodbeck driving near the prison about 1 45 . He Learned later Yount had escaped. Runner reminisces severely scarred legs were not Cunningham s Only physical Handicap. He also had broken Down Arches Baber Rosenthal associated Pressi f there can be one Low Point in the great career of Glenn Cunningham the world s outstanding Middle distance runner during the 1930s it would be when he ran faster than the world 1,500 meter record in the 1936 olympics. The problem with that performance was that Cunningham lost finishing second to John Lovelock of new zealand. It was a great disappointment Cunningham 78, said recently at Madison Square Garden where he and six other athletes helped celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the . Indoor track and Field championships. I had trained for that race for years said Cunningham who was timed in 3 minutes 48.4 seconds to Lovelock s 3 47.8. The previous record was 3 48.8, by Bill Bonthron. I never enjoyed losing in anything Cunningham said. Cunningham who constantly ran in pain said to might have Beaton Lovelock if to had had a Trainer who knew How to take care of my aching legs which were badly burned at age 7 during a schoolhouse lire that look the live of his brother. Cunningham s injuries were so severe that doctors considered amputation. The . Team trainers weren t sophisticated enough to handle my  Cunningham said. They just massaged them but a Lew weeks later i went up to Stockholm to race Cunningham said. When i got there. I called a swedish masseur who had worked on my legs in 1933, and asked him to come Down the next Day. He said i know your legs you need me tonight he knew what my legs needed. My Muscles would get hard like a rope and he worked each muscle. He knew How to get them  the masseur s methods worked perfectly. At Stockholm Cunningham won a Magni Licens double beating virtually the same Field he had faced in the olympic 1,500 and winning the 800 meters in world record time. The severely scarred legs were not Cunningham s Only physical Handicap. He also had broken Down Arches. And such badly abscessed Teeth eight of them that dentists and doctors did t see How i could walk i never knew when my Teeth would cause me great pain he said. I was always in pain and i still am in  much of the present pain is the result of a tractor trailer Accident a few years ago. That Hurt every Bone in my body Cunningham said displaying a swollen left wrist Bone and other scars. I can t remember a Day in my we that i Haven t been in  nevertheless. Cunningham refuses to seek regular medical help i Don t have any illnesses he said. And he does t do any prescribed exercises. But he stays in shape by rolling 1,000-Pound Bales of Hay and sacks of Grain on his ranch at Conway Ark. The ranch now filled with myriad animals also used to be filled with a Large group of troubled youngsters whom Cunningham and his wife look care of for about 30 years. But the costs of supporting the children became exorbitant and the Cunningham had to close Down that aspect of the operation. I did t got much financial help Cunningham said. I had to borrow a lot of Money. In fact. I still have a big debt to Clear  the financial setbacks have not detracted from Cunningham s remarkable running career. That was very enjoyable he said a smile crossing his gnarled face.". It was satisfy in " saturday january 30,1988 the stars and stripes  
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