The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is asking for the public’s help to find a criminal who escaped from a Sumter County prison in 1983.
Agents said Harry Braswell, Jr. escaped from the Sumter Correctional Institute with another inmate by hiding in a cabinet the two were loading on a truck.
The two then jumped from the truck after leaving the correctional facility. The second inmate was captured in Oregon, but Braswell remains at-large.
Braswell was initially arrested Feb. 22, 1975 in Quincy for murdering John Robbins at his Suwanee County home. He and three accomplices were sentence to life in prison.
He escaped after serving eight years.
Agents said the 57-year-old, who was born in Jasper, has relatives in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas. They said he is most likely using an alias and may have altered his tattoos. He has HDB on his left arm and a cross with a chain on the back of his right hand.
Authorities are offering a cash reward for any information leading to Braswell’s arrest. If you have information, call FDLE Special Agent Fred Harden at (813) 878-7300 or Cold Case Investigator Rita Hall from the Florida Department of Corrections at (850) 488-5258.