Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr. (born March 11, 1950) was a self-styled mountain man, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of two game wardens in Idaho.The son of a dairy farmer, Dallas spent his early years in Luce County, Michigan, later moving to rural Morrow County, Ohio, where he liked to trap and hunt game. He graduated from Mount Gilead High School in 1967, and during the Vietnam War, he dodged the draft and fled west, earning a living as a ranch hand and trapper. Dallas was eventually charged with killing two state game wardens in January 1981 in remote Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho. He eluded capture for over 15 months, until found in nearby northern Nevada in April 1982, north of Winnemucca. Convicted that October, Dallas escaped from prison in 1986 on Easter Sunday (March 30) and eluded law enforcement officials for nearly a year; he was apprehended outside a convenience store in suburban southern California in March 1987.Dallas attracted national media attention after both incidents, becoming a particularly controversial figure in Idaho, Oregon, and Northern Nevada. Some within the region regarded him as a folk hero, defying the government by defending his right to live off the land; while others, shocked and disgusted, saw him simply as a cold blooded cop killer. After manslaughter convictions in 1982, his prison escape trial ended in acquittal in 1987. Dallas served 22 years of a 30-year sentence and was released in February 2005.. }
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- Claude_Dallas abstract "Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr. (born March 11, 1950) was a self-styled mountain man, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of two game wardens in Idaho.The son of a dairy farmer, Dallas spent his early years in Luce County, Michigan, later moving to rural Morrow County, Ohio, where he liked to trap and hunt game. He graduated from Mount Gilead High School in 1967, and during the Vietnam War, he dodged the draft and fled west, earning a living as a ranch hand and trapper. Dallas was eventually charged with killing two state game wardens in January 1981 in remote Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho. He eluded capture for over 15 months, until found in nearby northern Nevada in April 1982, north of Winnemucca. Convicted that October, Dallas escaped from prison in 1986 on Easter Sunday (March 30) and eluded law enforcement officials for nearly a year; he was apprehended outside a convenience store in suburban southern California in March 1987.Dallas attracted national media attention after both incidents, becoming a particularly controversial figure in Idaho, Oregon, and Northern Nevada. Some within the region regarded him as a folk hero, defying the government by defending his right to live off the land; while others, shocked and disgusted, saw him simply as a cold blooded cop killer. After manslaughter convictions in 1982, his prison escape trial ended in acquittal in 1987. Dallas served 22 years of a 30-year sentence and was released in February 2005.".