In 1993, Doug Jarman made a last-ditch effort to find a grandmother whose last known whereabouts were a prison she fled in 1940. Harrison Ford’s movie “The Fugitive” made stories like hers a hot topic that year. So Jarman showed John O’Brien, the Tribune’s ace crime reporter, a letter he’d recently received: “I am still alive,” it read. “They never caught me. This is your notorious grandmother, .
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