Overview
- Gary Wayne Howard, 74, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on Thursday, Nov. 13, at a home in Indianapolis after roughly 15–16 years on the run.
- Investigators traced him to the Irvington neighborhood through surveillance and by following leads about relatives in Indiana who could help him stay off the grid.
- Upon arrest, Howard told officers he had hoped to be dead before they caught him, according to local reports.
- Howard faked a suicide in 2010 by abandoning a rental car near Mauzy Lake in Morganfield, Kentucky, after a 2007 Pinellas County conviction on 22 counts of child pornography that required lifetime registration.
- He is being held at Vanderburgh County Jail pending extradition to face a probation violation and 32 failure-to-register counts in Florida, with officials also citing a potential Adam Walsh prosecution in Indiana.