Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CHICAGO, March 23 (UPI) -- A handyman and honored poet who was an activist for 20 years in Chicago was actually a twice-convicted killer and prison escapee. J.J. Jameson, 65, was arrested by Illinois and Massachusetts authorities Tuesday, the same day a local Web site selected him as Poet of the Month, the Chicago Tribune reported. Jameson was found to actually be Norman A. Porter Jr., who was serving a prison term in Massachusetts for murder when he escaped in September 1985. Advertisement Massachusetts police Lt. Kevin Horton, whose unit has been looking for Porter for nearly 20 years, said the fugitive told him," I've had a good 20 years (of freedom)," the Boston Herald reported. Authorities made the Porter-Massachusetts connection after fingerprints from a 1993 arrest were compared. Porter was serving two life sentences for killings in 1960 and 1961. While in prison he earned an undergraduate degree form Boston University and published poetry. He had lived in Chicago for about two decades, working as handyman at a church and was known for his appearance at poetry slams and antiwar protests, the Tribune said.
