READING, Pa., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania prison escapee, who remained free for nearly 25 years, did so by keeping a low profile and using a different name.
Skip Wilkins, 49, escaped in 1980 from Berks County Prison while serving sentence on theft and escape charges. He was working on a correctional officer's car at the time.
He would've stayed free but for a state trooper from Reading who was going over cold cases. The trooper ran Wilkins' name through a computer and tracked him down at Wilkins' home in Kunkletown, the Reading Eagle reported.
Wilkins had changed his name to Douglas Wilkins in the mid-1980s when he applied for a job as a custodian at Boy Scout reservation.
Scout officials said their organization began requiring employee background checks in 1996 but Douglas Wilkins showed no criminal record.
Wilkins faces a new court hearing.
