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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 6, 1999
CONTACT: Perrin Damon (503)945-0925
perrin.p.damon@state.or.us
In July, 1982, Marcia Diane Glimpse went to prison. She had robbed several Portland convenience stores, tying her victims up at gun point and firing a shot when they were uncooperative. A Multnomah County judge ordered her to serve time on two counts of Armed Robbery.
Two years later, Marcia Diane Glimpse escaped. Glimpse and two other inmates were being escorted on foot between Oregon State Penitentiary and Oregon Women´s Correctional Center in Salem when Glimpse bolted.
Despite two warning shots fired in her direction, the convicted armed robber fled through traffic, darted between the Forestry buildings that line State Street, and tried to lose herself in a nearby apartment complex.
Her freedom didn´t last for long. An Oregon State Police officer caught sight of her and moments later she was captured without incident. Total time of escape: 18 minutes.
May 11, 1986. Marcia Diane Glimpse escapes again after slowly earning her way into a program at the state´s Women´s Release Unit. This transition unit was to be her first step towards a lawful return to the community in November, 1988.
Despite the best efforts of many police agencies, Glimpse eluded capture and instead of earning her freedom in two years, she spent 13 years on the run, even landing on the State Police´s Ten Most Wanted List in the early 1990´s.
Glimpse met her match when her case came to the attention of the Oregon Department of Corrections Fugitive Apprehension Unit. There, investigators are dauntless in tracking and tracing escapees and parole absconders.
In locating Glimpse in Galesburg, Illinois, investigators compiled a list of aliases she´d been using and locations she´d been sited, including an arrest in California. Using another name, she had been nabbed on drug charges and auto theft, but released from custody before her true identity was discovered. Ultimately, she had married and was using her married name when captured July 28th.
The modest heroes responsible for her capture shun publicity and even credit. They are quick to cite the cooperation of other state and local agencies. But they gain tremendous satisfaction every time a fugitive is returned to Oregon soil, when a file is marked "case closed," and sights shift to the next target. Although the work is occasionally tedious, it is always thorough and they boast a record of more captures than escapes.
As for Marcia Diane Glimpse, she´ll set foot back in Oregon within the month and be returned to prison where she´ll remain until she faces the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision. Under the laws in effect at the time she committed her crimes, it is they who will determine her fate and how much prison time her future includes.
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