After more than 30 years on the “lam,” fugitive Frank Dryman has been tracked down by his victim's grandson, Clem Pellett, reports the Great Falls Tribune.http://www.greatfallstribune.com/ Dr. Pellet is an oral surgeon in Bellevue, Washington, but grew up in Great Falls, Idaho. His father was a dentist in Great Falls, named Dr. Marion Pellett.
The seventy-eight-year-old Dryman is been said to have killed café owner Clarence Pellett 60 years ago in 1951, and faces extradition from Arizona to Montana. Dryman spent many years creating a life for himself in Arizona City under the guise as the owner of a successful wedding chapel and a notary public. His alias was “Victor Houston.”http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100325/NEWS01/3250301/Victim-s-grandson-tracks-down-fugitive-after-38-years-on-the-lam
Grandson Pellett hired private investigators to assist in tracking down Dryman. In the next few months, Dryman will face a parole board that could send him back to prison.http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100325/NEWS01/3250301/Victim-s-grandson-tracks-down-fugitive-after-38-years-on-the-lam
After searching for a year, the investigators arrested Dryman on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in Arizona City. Dryman may either be reparoled, or sent to a “prerelease center.” This is a record for Montana. No Montana criminal has ever been missing longer than Dryman. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100325/NEWS01/3250301/Victim-s-grandson-tracks-down-fugitive-after-38-years-on-the-lam
Background of the Crime
Dryman was a 19-year-old hitchhiker at the time of the murder of a Montana man in 1951. Victim Clarence Pellett picked him up during a blizzard. He was originally sentenced to be executed for the 1951 killing.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/89094982.html
Dryman, skipped out on parole in Arizona and has been missing for 38 years.http://bozemandailychronicle.com/news/article_8dc3fdbc-375e-11df-b66e-001cc4c002e0.html
