Morris Lynn Johnson

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Morris Lynn Johnson was a Kentucky-born career criminal whose arrest record included armed robbery, escape and rescue, bank robbery (with assault) and assaulting a police officer. He would briefly be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1976.

A known prison escape artist, he was named in a federal warrant after breaking his parole in August 1975 when he was charged with a bank robbery and burglary in Altanta, Georgia. Although he was recaptured and held in custody for parole violation, he escaped from the Atlanta federal prison on October 25, 1975.

A year following his escape, Johnson was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on October 25, 1976. In less than a month, acting on an anonymous tip, federal agents captured him in New Orleans on June 26. While awaiting transfer, Johnson escaped from custody in Selma, Alabama on November 6. he had previously promised to send a message greeting his pursuers and, at Christmas, the judge and prosecutor in his court case as well as one of the FBI agents involved in his arrest received a card from Johnson which stated "I do my thing and you do your thing. If we should ever meet again, it's beautiful." As of 2002, he has not been recaptured.