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Norman A. Porter Jr. was flanked
police officers who captured him in 1961.
(The Boston Globe)
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Porter addressed
a group at Norfolk prison in 1975.
(Globe File Photos)
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Norman Porter as J. J. Jameson. Photos from 1995 to 2005.
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Norman A. Porter Jr. wrote poetry as J.J. Jameson.
(C.J. Laity/ ChicagoPoetry.com)
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20-year fugitive returned to state
March 24, 2005 - Convicted murderer Norman A. Porter Jr. escaped
from a Massachusetts prison 20 years ago and reinvented himself as
J.J. Jameson, a poet, church leader, and helper of the homeless in
Chicago. He returned to New England on March 23 to face a felony
charge of escape, along with one of two life sentences he received
for the murders of a clothing store clerk and a Middlesex County
jailer in the early 1960s.
(Globe Photo / Joe Giblin)
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Porter was in prison for executing a clerk at a Saugus clothing
store in 1960
and assisting in the murder
of a Middlesex County guard in 1961. He escaped
in 1985 and was
caught in May of 2005 in Chicago.
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Police escorted fugitive Norman A. Porter
Jr.
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Norman A. Porter
Jr.
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