Description:
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
Date:
December 19, 1955
Duration:
1 minute 09 seconds
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)