Marie Dean Arrington
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Marie Dean Arrington is an American criminal, and was one of the first women to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted List, in 1969. She spent two years on the list after escaping from prison in 1969 while she was awaiting execution. She had originally been sentenced to death for the murder of a Florida legal secretary who worked for a public defender who unsuccessfully represented her two children on felony charges. Arrington escaped by cutting through a window screen, and fled in her pajamas. After she was caught, she was sentenced in 1972 to 10 additional years for escaping, but her death sentence was commuted to life in prison when the Florida Supreme Court struck down capital punishment as unconstitutional. She remains in prison in Florida today.
