Woman on NY’s most wanted list found in Georgia

On the run for 11 years, one of New York’s most wanted fugitives was found this week in Georgia.

In 1975, Frances Parks and four others forced their way into a New York apartment, where they assaulted, stabbed, strangled and murdered a man, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a news release. Three men also assaulted and raped a woman in the apartment. Parks was convicted of murder, rape and robbery. She was on parole when she left New York in 2002, a violation of the terms of her parole.

It’s not clear when, but the agency learned that Parks was in Willacoochee, Ga., under an alias. Willacoochee is more than 200 miles south of Atlanta.

Monday, authorities located Parks at a residence in the south Georgia city.

“Initially, Parks denied her true identity and attempted to retreat into her home,” the U.S. Marshals Service said in the release. “Task force personnel pursued her into the home and took her into custody.”

Parks was taken to the Atkinson County Jail to await extradition to New York.

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