New documents are revealing information on how one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives wanted for the violent murder of a Butler County police chief avoided capture for decades.
According to state police papers obtained by a Boston TV station, Donald Webb spent the last 17 years of his life hidden away in the basements of two houses in Massachusetts.
Both homes had a hidden room with a system of hooks and locks that prevented anyone from accidentally opening the door. After a pair of strokes in 1997, Webb lost mobility and the ability to care for himself. He told his wife, Lillian, to dig a hole in the backyard to bury him.
Webb died in 1997 and Lillian buried him as instructed, where he remained until last week.
Webb was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Saxonburg Police Chief Gregory Adams in 1980. As for Lillian, she agreed to show investigators where the body was buried in exchange for not being prosecuted.
