Back in prison, he heard that Norman Mailer was writing a book about Gary Gilmore, who was on Utah’s death row, and began writing long letters to Mailer, detailing his supposed mistreatment in prison. In 1971, Abbott escaped from jail and robbed a bank in Denver before being captured. Although he claimed to have been defending himself from a homosexual assault, he received another 14-year sentence. While serving his time at the Utah state penitentiary, Abbott killed a fellow inmate in 1966. Soon after his release nine years later, he was arrested and convicted of forgery. At the age of nine, he was sent to reform school in Utah. At the time of the murder, Abbott had been out on parole largely through the efforts of author Norman Mailer, who convinced officials that he had a great writing talent.Ībbott spent virtually his entire life in prison. Jack Henry Abbott is captured in the oil fields of Louisiana after a two-month long manhunt that began when he killed Richard Adan at the Binibon restaurant in New York City on July 18.
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