Storyline
1951. After confessing to the brutal murder of Clarence Pellet in Shelby, Montana, Frank Dryman, a mysterious hitchhiker, is sentenced to hang. Dryman's verdict attracts considerable attention and the public outcry results in Dryman's penalty being reduced to life behind bars. After serving 18 years Dryman is paroled but disappears in 1971. In 2009, discovering that Dryman is alive and still at large, victim Clarence Pellett's grandson Clem finally sees justice done. Written by Simon Dekker
I watched this on CI the other night and it was quite intriguing. Try see if there is a rerun of it. It's not your average, someone got killed, they catch the killer, he gets sentenced etc. The grandson of Clarence Pellet finds newspaper clippings in his mothers belongings after she has died and when he hears that Dryman disappeared in 1971, he decides he needs to do something about it. His father used to go to Dryman's parole hearings every year and every year Dryman was denied parole. In 1968 his father died so in 1969 there was no one at the parole hearing and he was given parole and then Dryman disappeared. He was captured later in 2009 as a 72 year old man and put back in prison LOL. It took the grandson years to find Dryman.
But it was very interesting.
1951. After confessing to the brutal murder of Clarence Pellet in Shelby, Montana, Frank Dryman, a mysterious hitchhiker, is sentenced to hang. Dryman's verdict attracts considerable attention and the public outcry results in Dryman's penalty being reduced to life behind bars. After serving 18 years Dryman is paroled but disappears in 1971. In 2009, discovering that Dryman is alive and still at large, victim Clarence Pellett's grandson Clem finally sees justice done. Written by Simon Dekker
I watched this on CI the other night and it was quite intriguing. Try see if there is a rerun of it. It's not your average, someone got killed, they catch the killer, he gets sentenced etc. The grandson of Clarence Pellet finds newspaper clippings in his mothers belongings after she has died and when he hears that Dryman disappeared in 1971, he decides he needs to do something about it. His father used to go to Dryman's parole hearings every year and every year Dryman was denied parole. In 1968 his father died so in 1969 there was no one at the parole hearing and he was given parole and then Dryman disappeared. He was captured later in 2009 as a 72 year old man and put back in prison LOL. It took the grandson years to find Dryman.
But it was very interesting.