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CHICAGO (AP) A 76-year-old man paroled from an Illinois prison after serving time for the 1972 murder of a teenage boy is now considered a fugitive by the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The department lists Ray Larsen as an “absconder,” meaning parole officials don’t know where he is. Larsen was sentenced to 100 to 300 years in prison after confessing to killing Frank Casolari, 16, in the Schiller Woods Forest Preserve near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on May 17, 1972.
At the time of the killing, Larsen, then 27, was on a “family furlough,” from prison to visit his grandmother. He was serving a sentence for robbery and other crimes. Paroled earlier this month, Larsen was supposed to take up residence on Chicago’s South Side.
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Illinois Department of Corrections
A 76-year-old man who was paroled earlier this month in the 1972 killing of a teenage boy in Chicago while on a pass from prison to visit his grandmother is now a fugitive, according to state prison records.
Ray Larsen is listed by the Illinois Department of Corrections as an “absconder,” meaning parole officials don’t know where he is.
He was supposed to be living at an address on the Far South Side of Chicago, records show. Parolees must follow rules set out by the state, and they remain under the supervision of the corrections department until their parole terms are completed.