Overview
- U.S. Marshals arrested Gary Wayne Howard, 74, on November 13 at a home in Indianapolis’ Irvington neighborhood after a long fugitive search.
- He was convicted in Pinellas County in 2007 of 22 counts of child pornography and is subject to lifetime sex‑offender registration in Florida.
- Investigators say he staged a suicide in 2010 by abandoning an Enterprise rental car near Mauzy Lake in Kentucky to evade supervision.
- Detectives followed family ties in Indiana and surveillance footage to identify him, and he reportedly told agents he had hoped to die before capture.
- He is being held in Vanderburgh County Jail pending extradition to face violation‑of‑probation and multiple failure‑to‑register counts, with an Adam Walsh Act prosecution in Indiana under consideration.